dutik Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 First in! Well, I take part with the smalles chopper of the world, that made it actually into the air (and for the pilot safe back to the ground, of course). This is the Baumgärtel Heliofly III/59. Kit provided by Unicraft from Ukraina. This will be a 3-stage project: 1. Looking for the kit! Well, I have one in the stash, but it is so small, and I stored it inside another kits box to save some storage space. So this might become the true challenge 2. Figure painting! OK, the crew is definitly the larger part of this project, isn't it? 3. Meet the deadline! Oh well, I am notorious for missing this point... Enjoy! - dutik Zero77, Rdrunner, Girlscanplay2 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Welcome aboard, Dutik! Sounds like an interesting project. Kev dutik 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Boillot Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 ! A Unicraft kit nonetheless ! Here is to the bravest of men But you know what they say. "There is a fine line between the brave and the foolhardy" OK. Hubert dutik and BradG 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Interesting ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted October 8, 2015 Author Share Posted October 8, 2015 Got the much needed replacement head and some more bodyparts: Well, now I have the pilot, but I am still looking for the helo kit. Stash digging of the finest... Still digging. At least I found some other lost parts. F. e. Jerry Rutmans prop blade set for my (stalled) F4U-4 Corsair build. Nice. Regards - dutik Girlscanplay2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonH Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Wow! Never mind the kit I want a REAL one of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted October 9, 2015 Author Share Posted October 9, 2015 Yeah! Gotcha! Found this inside Trumpies Mig-3 Box. Large box, small airplan, lot of empty space to store some more kits If you've never heared about Unicraft: Prototypical cottage industries from Ukraine. Resin is brittle, casting awful (bubbles, bubbles rule the world). Large pour stubs, mediocre fit, uneven surfaces, no decals, and loooooong waiting time (months...) for delivery. Except you pay a fee for quick delivery... Wait, what? Waiting time for that crap? Fee for quick delivery? Are you silly? Why throw money at this? Simple answer: These kits are the only game in town, if some stuff is a "must have" to you. You get it there or nowhere So here we are: The kit, the instructions, the box in all their glory Not a lot of parts. Cleaning, building, painting are the main tasks. And to try to break off nothing Enjoy! - dutik Zero77 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted October 17, 2015 Author Share Posted October 17, 2015 Before I started the work I mustered my reference books: Fine. The figure is not as bad as expected. After removing the "fishskin", the mold seams and some overpour "pearls" it looked nice. Especially the face is well molded: No, that is not a "first nations" feather headgear, this is the pour plug. Only the shoes left something to be desired, so I cut them off and will replace them with the shown Verlinden items. I also want to replace the arms. The "chopper" gear is ok except a large bubble at the top (center, pointing downwards in the image). The rotos blades a long and brittle. Prone to breaking... I shall try to build another set from steel wire and styrene. Thats it at the moment. - dutik Girlscanplay2, Lars Befring and Zero77 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Dutik, you're a brave man building this helo subject, good luck. J. dutik 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted December 9, 2015 Author Share Posted December 9, 2015 I am single-handed in a dogfight with not one, but two Mirages I will survive! - dutik mywifehatesmodels 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted January 16, 2016 Author Share Posted January 16, 2016 Oh, look, our aviator is lacking some limbs! Lets fix this. Medic! Medic!!! Done! The upper wires will form the core of the new rotosblades... Regards - dutik BGB and Zero77 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 I want to become a rotor wing! - I did so. Regards - dutik Zero77 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted January 24, 2016 Author Share Posted January 24, 2016 Paint it! The Aviator got a necklace. There was nothing inside his suit, except a moldline and some bubbles. 'cause he's not Frankenstein junior I covered them with a necklace. Choice of color follows the Osprey manual about painting Fallschirmjagers, the "Tankhunter" chapter, the brighter of the two smocks. Added the shades too.Highlights and "smoothing transitions out" to follow. Not to mention the brown and green camo blotches. His companion is the NBC suit/Flamethrower figure from Takoms KV-5 kit. Same procedure, but with the proper greys for a soviet made suit. And yes, this is a hair at the figure. I removed it meanwhile Regards - dutik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 Painted the overall in ochre. Added shadows and highlights (kind of...). The redbrown camo dots are just the first color layer. Two images, with flash and without: Enjoy! - dutik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted January 30, 2016 Author Share Posted January 30, 2016 Browns and greens: Sumpfmuster, aka "swamp pattern". Next step is to give the blotches a soft outline. Then adding more contrast and depth to the flightsuite. Enjoy! - dutik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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