mc65 Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 hi all, here is a little nice kit by ICM to wich I added Begemot decals, Yahu instrument panel, Rescue resin wheels and IGW seatbelts. truly, all started some 40 years ago, when I saw this picture: I collected references and the Azur kit for years (for decades!) but when ICM's kit appeared, I had no more excuses to procrastinate this project. the kit is accurate, yet somehow "heavy" and simple in many aspects. so I worked a bit the cockpit, adding flares, pistol, throttle quadrant, retracting landing gear handle and so on. the kit's IP seems interesting, but I purchased the Yahu panel with the same order of the kit, so I used the latter. not that you see much, in the end... also in the engine compartment there are the very basic items, so I added oil radiator and his air duct from scratch. I enriched the engine's rear with magnetos, carburettor, air intakes, spark plugs and wires, most of these spares from other built kits. doing the same with the front end, altough all will be buried under the tight cowling. trought slight modifications to the kit's cowling I rendered the internal rotating plate fully functioning, leaving the chance to see something of the engine. also on the rear i obtained access to the engine installing some micro magnetos on the upper and side panels, so these snaps on when you approach these to the fuselage. actually I found little references about the Shvetson M-25 engine, but assumed it was the licence-built Wright R-1820, all appeared simpler. some gyzmo was necessary, anyway. I was delighted by the Rescue wheels, a really nice product! I kept to minimum the scratches on the Karman, being the real aircraft made mostly by wooden panels. the Begemot decals where printed on a rather thick film, but after some working with dedicated liquid products and some pledge, these made their mark on the fuselage. I painted the exaust fumes as per photos, and decided to leave the flaps up due no images of these down was found by me. all in all, a really enjoiable building, I had a lot of fun with it. cheers, Paolo. lawman56, John1, aircare84 and 24 others 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrov27 Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Fantastic - amazing detail and finish! mc65 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomg Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Great work! mc65 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Owens Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 A work of three-dimensional art! mc65 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 That is a beauty, Paolo! May I post it on the website? Kagemusha and mc65 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncarina Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Very nice! Cheers, Tom mc65 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citadelgrad Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 What a great result, Paolo! Very nice details and finish. mc65 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc65 Posted October 23, 2021 Author Share Posted October 23, 2021 41 minutes ago, LSP_Ray said: That is a beauty, Paolo! May I post it on the website? Sure! it's an honour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Very nicely done! mc65 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Great job, what a lovely I-16! mc65 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1 Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 What a great job. Nice work on the extra details and the weathering. Good timing, I happened to be at an aviation museum a few weeks back and saw one up close (it's flyable). Quite the pugnacious little beast. Troy Molitor and mc65 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Most excellent build! Well done on the weathering too. mc65 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpgsbody55 Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Nice build. You've done that one well. Cheers, Michael mc65 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aircare84 Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Excellent build! The detail work you added is very well done. mc65 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kagemusha Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Nice work Komrade Paolo. mc65 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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