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    I decided that I won't install electronic bays as plane on monuments usually do not have such hatch opened so I glued frotn fuselage parts with cockpit and front gear bay. It's not perfect but it's better that I expected as halves do not fit only in ole place: Anyway this place will be covered with canopy, so I do not mess with it not to break to much. I only had to cut canopyy a little in one spot and glue some HIPS in another: I glued also the main gear bays: In the meantime I'm trying to figure out how to build a strong and light monument, I started with some 4mm thick plaster blocks: I will carve a bricks on them later. I glued front windscreen (it covered with maskol)...: ... and ejection seat: Now I'm waiting to vaporate rest of CA glue (otherwise it might damage canopy shield) so on photo it is only temporary to see how it fits:
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    Thank you all for your warm comments - it means a lot to me.
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    WOW. Great technique. I applied only some black paint like this but never thought of using other colors.
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    Thank you very much. Don't think about it. Do it as soon as you can. In the meantime I finished cockpit and ejection seat:
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    Thank you Geedubelyer.
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    Today I tried to visualize the monument and the plane on the base: Angle of the plane is not too big as the base with plane should not exceed 25cm in height. Then I had to destroy some more parts to fit resin: And I sand smooth the air intake, but probably it won't be seen after mounting: I paint wheel wells (without wash yet): And a color check for cockpit:
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    Thank you. Quite cool. I have to think how to build it and attach plane to it. I received pack of resin parts. At the begining I try to fit the main wheel wells as the attachment is a little bit different then kits parts - they are open at the top while resin have all the sides full. To properly attach some plastic blocks have to be removed from one of the part supporting wings. Next I tried to fit exhaust. It is larger in diameter then kits one, so a lot of plastic have to removed from the rear halves of hull: This is how it fits: Unfortunately exhaust is a little bit smaller then end of the hull: Those parts will be fitted in the engine: More to come soon - I glued a lot of parts but some of them have to reshaped or cut to properly fit resin parts.
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    Hi, Few days ago I finished my sixth model in 1:32 and as it was A-10 it also was a fourth plane is US markings that's why I decided to go to the east and choose one of the former USSR planes. I have Su-27 but I'm not ready to it yet, also Su-25 was not a good choose as I just finish CAS plane. So the choice was simple: MiG-23MLD. In quite a big box half of sprues is for armament - various missiles, bombs, gun pods, fuel tanks etc but MLD was an ultimate fighter so mostly air to air missiles were carried. Plane have 7 mounting points but only 4 are available as the central one and left and right ones are reserved for fuel tanks. I decide to mount 2 R-24R (1 per pylon) missiles and 4 R-60 (2 per pylon) in configuration as below: After gluing I had to sand it a little bit, rescribe some lines, paint with primer and sand a little more: In the meantime I ordered a Aires detail set (2196) http://www.aires.cz/get/image.php?object=product-photo&id=2287 And also a Pitot tube from Master, Air Scoops and Chute brake from Quickboost. Still I'm not sure about painting as Trumpeter is offering two quite interesting schemes, but in the meantime I found on the wiki interesting photo: Camo like Su-27 and idea for a base. Waiting for resin parts I'm trying to glue and prepare as many parts as I can:
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    Very nice model - I really like it. Congratulations. Przemek.
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    Thank you Lothar. Justin - it is very kind of you. Thank you for your comment. Dzięki wielkie Artur.
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    And some more:
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    Thank you all for your kind words. I took some more pics without the masks on the windshield:
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    I'm truly sorry for responding so late but I was with my family on one of the biggest contest this weekend with my models but thank you very much to all of you for you kind words. I'm really happy that you enjoy watching my model. It is good to know that after all those hours of hard work finally pays off with such a wonderful reaction of people like you. Again big thank you very much. Kev - it will be an honor for me to publish this photos on the website. Please let me know if you would like me to take some another photos with masks removed.
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    Hi, After a lof of struggling with this model I finally was able to finish it. Model as an early Trumpeter is not perfect, it has a lot of errors and a lot of work is needed to do it properly so I wouldn't recommend to beginners. I add resin cockpit (in set was also a resin gun muzzle), Eduard exterior and armament sets, another metal gun muzzle for gun on a trailer and additional model of VW Beetle from Airfix (a terrible, terrible model). Trailer is a scratch build, a few details were added to resin engines frome the kit and to the gun (from kit) on a trailer - especially the ammo belt. Model was painted in three tone grey camo called Flipper. i know it was not used on A-10N/AW (as it only existed in one prototype) but I liked it much more over a standard grey-green camo. I only add a little of oil wash and weathering. No dust pigments were added as I wanted to keep it quite clean. Just to mention as one of the inspiration was probably well known old photo of VW Bettle copared to GAU-8 gun. Ohh, and one more thing - I've noticed than some masks were not removed from front windscreen. Please watch and comment (and be gentle):
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    Big "thank you" for all your comments folks. To crobinsonh - I'm thinking about Trumpeters Harrier Plus and Revells Tornado as a next project.
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    Thanks Kev. I'm really happy.
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    Thanks Blackbetty. Thank you. Rconspit, please take a look at following post in Work in Progress, where I have included instruction how this base was made, it was easier that I've expected: http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=42013&page=2&do=findComment&comment=549135 hope you will find something usuful there, if not PM me and I will share some info.
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    Thank you all for such a great comments. I'm really happy that you like my build. Kev -> Full name is Przemyslaw Przybulewski. Thanks again.
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    Kev, it's surprising but sure. I'll be happy. Thank you very much for this.
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    Finished, at least I think so. I want to add some touchups but I was afraid that I will destroy something. Please watch and comment.
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    I build base for my Hornet, starting from wooden shelf 40x60cm with a piece of plaster board: Then drilled 8mm holes in 90mm trinagles: filled with two ingredient epoxy glue and shaped with wooden stick (the other end of brush): Then layers of 36 grade sand paper: I was not able to get tie-downs, so I made my own: Painted with layer of gray car primer, then black and white, red stripes: Tie-downs glued and painted brass:
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