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  1. Hello, slow progress here because vacation with the family and the high temperature are "enemy" of modelling and resin casting Anyway, here what I was able to make last weeks. New wing pylons for the RAF Harrier II because they are really different compared to the same parts on the AV-8Bs. Specific AIM-9 wing pylons were made too in correct size, shape and details as for a completely new central pylon. A ventral chaff&flare box launcher has been made from scratch because is missing in the Trumpeter RAF Harrier GR.7 kit. Now, as soon as the temperature will be back to "human level", all these parts will be resin casted to make some copies. CIAO! Piero
  2. Hello, first try of the GR.5 nose resin copies... 2-3 micro-holes but nothing else. In the next days I'll try a new mold with the others RAF GR.5/7 parts as the ventral chaff launcher and the extra wing pylons. CIAO! Piero
  3. Hello, one RAF Harrier GR.5 is not enough in my collection and I want to do one in the artic-white camouflage for the exercise in Norway in the 1990. So, this is the new GR.5 nose I've just made converting an AV-8B's standard nose. As there is no good 3-view drawing available, I used some pics that I found in some books and magazines and also some photos taken during the GR.5 restoration in the Pima Air Museum. Here the result... I would like to do a resin copy in the next few weeks... if the result will be good, maybe I'll do some other resin copies. CIAO! Piero
  4. some news from me posted in the WIP section...
  5. Hello, I'm really interested on this topic, because I'm the middle of a new GR.5 nose conversion on an AV-8B Trumpeter kit. It's my second GR.5 nose, I think this one is better than the first I've made. Resource for this job are some books ad the good-old-Aeroguide volume. But also some WIP pics of the GR.5 restored in Pima museum... I post these pics only for model discussion purpose. All rights are reserved by authors. Here is the status of my GR.5 nose in 1/32nd at the moment. The RCV has to be moved a little bit forward... CIAO! Piero
  6. Spectacular! Mirage is such elegant plane and your two-seater is a beauty!!! I really like the soft but effective effect of the panel lines... great job!!! CIAO! Piero
  7. This model is cursed... After the usual decal process of clear gloss, micro set and sol, again clear gloss and than clear flat... here the result. I don't know what's happened... all decal's film is visible and extremely flat. Before spraying the clear flat here's how the decals looked... they were fine to me. Now I'm very disappointed at least... I think I'll throw it away from my balcony at 5th floor... damn!!! Never again Begemont decals for me.
  8. Hello, after a thin layer of Tamiya X-22 Clear Gloss, I've applied a dark wash all over the model. Now I have to put another couple of thin layers of Clear Gloss than it should be ready for decals. CIAO! Piero
  9. Hi Chuck, your canadian "Spillone" is amazing! You did a great job fixing the Italeri's kit. and the metal colors all around is almost perfect to me. CIAO! Piero
  10. Hi Marcel, I really like your Fulcrum!!! The camouflage is amazing and also the burned metal effect over the nozzles is great! My ask you what decals did you use for markings and stencils? CIAO! Piero
  11. Hello, my Fulcrum is back in full Czech's camouflage colors! This machine will be the Czech's 5918. Not even two Czech's Fulcrum had the same camouflage pattern... why???? This time I hope to be a little more lucky with the Tally Oh!'s decals... CIAO! Piero
  12. ... Unfortunately it went like this... My first experience with Techmod's decals has been "difficult": they are printed very well, good color saturation and a thin films... but hardly to use because are so fragile to move from the wet paper and to place on the model. Despite the model was so well glossed I had also a lot of silvering all over the stencils... a nightmare. This is the first time such a thing has happened to me... so I removed paints and decals until the bare plastic: I've used the AK Paint Stripper specific product for this task. Tomorrow I'm going to clean the plastic, restore some panel lines and rivets and after that I'll paint it again. This time it will be a Czech's Mig-29A, as it should has been from the beginning. CIAO! Piero
  13. Hello, the Fulcrum has been glossed with a couple of layers of Tamiya X-22 thinned with Tamiya Laquer Thinner "yellow cap". After that I've applied a wash using the Flory Model's "Dark Dirt" acrylic wash. Now it's ready for the decals. CIAO! Piero
  14. Well dirty Hornet here!!! Nice to see you got finished it... and now, who's next? CIAO! Piero
  15. Hello, I spent the weekend spraying colors all over the small panels, antennas, metallic plates, radome and the interior of the undercarriage bays. Now its time to prepare the surface for some good thin layers of clear gloss paint Tamiya X-22. CIAO! Piero
  16. Hello, the painting phase is going on. The under surface were sprayed with a very Light Grey. I used the Tamiya XF-80 reference. Then I sprayed the matt Black anti-glare panel in front of the windshield. Patches of Light Blu Grey, Tamiya XF-23, were sprayed over the Czech's insegna under the wings and around the front section of the jet air intakes. The real "challenge" was masking and painting the White band around the rear fuselage section... meters of Tamiya's masking tape following such different shapes and details... but in the end I was happy with the result. Still a lot of panels and details to be painted... but for me this is the best part of building a model. CIAO! Piero
  17. Hello, due the quality of the Gunze colors and their drying speed if well thinned, yesterday I was able to finish the camouflage of the upper surfaces. After the Light Sand and the Light Green next was the H309 Dark Green. Then the H406 Chocolate Brown. The H65 Black Green was used to spray the patches covering the czech's insigna. Now its time to go with the Light Grey on the under surfaces....then the radome, antennas, metallic panels, black anti-glare panel and last but not least the large white band around the rear part of the fuselage. CIAO! Piero
  18. Thanks guys! Here the first two camouflage colors sprayed: these are Gunze H44 and H312 thinned with Tamiya's Thinner Yellow cap. Here the masking using Patafix's rolls and Tamiya's Yellow Tape. CIAO! Piero
  19. A little step before the camouflage... I sprayed some pure white inside the main panels to highlights these areas. An hint for the camouflage colors... CIAO! Piero
  20. Hello, the windshield has been glued to the fuselage: the fitting of this part is really good. Unfortunately I have no photo of this step... Then I've spent a good amount of time to clean all the plastic parts to prepare for the painting phase. The clear part of the windshield has been masked using Tamiya's yellow tape and some Maskol to seal the cockpit area. Now I'm ready to paint it!!! First layer is a coat of Tamiya X-18 Semi-Gloss Black: this has been sprayed in two thin layers with a pass of very fine grane sanding sponge between the painting layers and... wow... that's a MiG-28!!! Next step is spray a random pattern of Very Light Grey, Gunze H338 in this case, trying to stay inside the panels but without worrying... here she is with the marbled effect on. Tomorrow I'll start with the real camouflage... Hurray!!! CIAO! Piero
  21. Hi, early Polish MiG-29As were ex-Czech machines that retaines the original 4-tones camouflage for some years until they went to the overhaul maintenance where they were repainted in greys shades. The original 4-tones camouflage of the Fulcrums was not keept very well. The PAF's maintenance crews overpainted the Czech's roundels with blochs of Dark Green over the wings on on the vertical tails. Under the wings they applied some Light Blue Grey, used on the side of the jet air intakes too. And then applied the Polish markings. So the camouflage got a heavy fading over the years until they were repainted. CIAO! Piero
  22. Moving on the cockpit... I've painted the area over the IP and added the glasses of the HUD. I have no pic but I've already painted the inside of the front windshield: the color is not black as I supposed it was but instead is light grey as the rest of the cockpit. CIAO! Piero
  23. nearly close to put on some paint... but still some work to do. The airbrake has been put on in closed position. The actuators has been reshaped and detailed too. Some details has been added to the IP cover. The HUD frame is there but still no glass, this will be added after the painting phase. A very nice surprise were the plastic under-wing pylons: I was worried of the amount of work I should done because these parts in the M and K versions are wrong in shape and details. Instead, in this box the pylons are almost correct in shape and details... so a little work here and the job is done! Now its time to paint the cockpit area and the frame inside the windshield. CIAO! Piero
  24. ... and now all together!!! Fuselage is completed with the two vertical tails. The extensions with the chaff launchers has been reshaped and detailed using stripes of plasticard and pieces of PE. As you can see flaps&slats are fitted too: the positions of the all the mobile surfaces has been referred to many photos of the MiG-29A when is parked. It's curious that the flaps are in neutral position, the control surfaces are a little bit in up position and the slats are a little bit in down position... why the control surfaces are a little bit up in both the wings?... with the engines turned off of course. ...
  25. Hello, I tried to dry-fit the submarine-tank between the engines nacelles just to have an idea of how it looks... Not bad, right? Ok, time to put the fuselage together: inserting the cockpit inside the upper fuselage is not a problem, the fitting is almost ok. As you can see the two fuselage halves are glued together and a Quickboost correct resin radome is already fitted... it looks really ok to me. What is not perfect is the thickness of the LERX: for me this part is a little bit "skinny"... but I decided to live with it. ...
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