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Ilyushin IL-76
« on: August 16, 2016, 08:00:52 PM »
Well, this one needs a proper introduction. I think you all know Nicolas Cage's movie War Lord, and it has a sceene in Africa when they land an An12 in the desert full of weapons. Well this actually happened but with a few differences,it wasn't An 12 it was IL 76 qnd not africa but on a little sport airfield near Dubai UAE.

Friend of mine who's in Dubai a few years now asked me to build this aircraft for him. The kit is Trumpeter 1/144 scale.



First I located all the doors and hatches on the fuselage which needs to be cutted out as well as a few small windows which needed to be drilled out, trumepeter gives them as part of fuselage in solid plastic.

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Re: Ilyushin IL-76
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2016, 08:04:03 PM »
And good timing since a life-extension was just announced for some of the Il-76 fleet!

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Re: Ilyushin IL-76
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2016, 08:28:44 AM »
Good details for that scale

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Re: Ilyushin IL-76
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2016, 11:16:48 AM »
Yes, it's a good kit for it's scale, you can build it out of box with a few miner issue

Since I had to open the door and some hatches I had to make some interior details where it will be seen


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Re: Ilyushin IL-76
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2016, 01:22:26 PM »
interior painted


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Re: Ilyushin IL-76
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2016, 01:57:59 PM »
Blue? Interesting ;)

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Re: Ilyushin IL-76
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2016, 05:19:06 PM »
Love these Soviet machines!

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Re: Ilyushin IL-76
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2016, 12:03:43 PM »
Yes, blue,interesting but that's the color.....

Scratchbuild nose wheel bay ( as it later turned out this was a waste of time, nothing is visible, but I know it's there ) and the start on the engines


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Re: Ilyushin IL-76
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2016, 04:35:40 PM »
:-ok

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Re: Ilyushin IL-76
« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2016, 06:40:10 PM »
Some cockpit details had to be made, during the time lots of things got stolen from this bird, so what left in it is still visible, I used Evergreen styrene and some photo-etched leftovers for this purpose.

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Re: Ilyushin IL-76
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2016, 07:13:01 PM »
Splendid details in that scale  :-eek :-eek :-ok :-obey :-clap :-clap

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Re: Ilyushin IL-76
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2016, 08:44:58 PM »
Excellent!

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Re: Ilyushin IL-76
« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2016, 01:23:57 PM »
Thank you friends !

The start of the surfaces on the fuselage/wings. A lot of putty and sanding was needed to get it right. The next step was to identify the surfaces which will be cutted out or need a some sort of intervention and the start of heavy duty work.....


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Re: Ilyushin IL-76
« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2016, 04:03:57 PM »
Looking great

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Re: Ilyushin IL-76
« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2016, 04:37:11 PM »
:-ok