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Aircraft Modeling / Yakovlev Yak 9P, Amodel, 1/72

« on: November 10, 2015, 10:34:06 AM »

Hello,

Here is my latest finished build, the yak 9P from Amodel in 1/72 scale. This is a pretty kit, well tooled abd of high quality (I've been told it's not a constant feature by Amodel ?..)
I finished it in North-Korean livery to be included in my "Korean War collection". I know nothing about the unit it belonged to... The decal sheet proposes 6 different liveries : two Russian, one Bulgarian, one Polish and two North-Korean. That has been for me the opportunity to learn that, after WW2, the very early Hungarian markings had the same arrangement than North-Korea ones but with a green circle instead of blue.

To be noted are the fuel gauges dials on the wing uppersurfaces:

Jicehem

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Egg plane: Mirage 5 BR

« on: November 10, 2015, 09:57:28 AM »

Hello,

Very nice.

Jicehem

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Arado 196 Revell 1/32

« on: November 09, 2015, 03:29:46 PM »

Maybe a kind of deterioreted transparent waterproof paint. But not black because the black letterings are legible on it...

Jicehem

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Arado 196 Revell 1/32

« on: November 09, 2015, 02:17:27 PM »

Quote from: No.1 on November 09, 2015, 11:06:11 AM

Problem is that black and red look the same on black and white images.

Hello

Renderings of red ans black are black only with orthochromatic films. With panchro ones red is a shade of grey (dark to mediem grey) but lighter than black.
I never heard of anti-fouling paint on surfaces above water and, more precisely, on fabrics. I understand that anti-fouling paint was necessary for surfaces below the water level because it's not esasy to clean them.

Jicehem

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Arado 196 Revell 1/32

« on: November 08, 2015, 04:49:56 PM »

Quote from: No.1 on November 08, 2015, 12:59:50 PM

Problem- it look like that central float samples have fuselage bottom in some coat, maybe anti fouling paint? Any suggestion?

Hello,

Officially anti-fouling paint was only applied on treated bare metal surfaces below the level of the water. I don't know of something else.

Jicehem

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Aircraft Modeling / Republic P-47D-28-RE Thunderbolt, GC 2/5 La Fayette. Hasegawa kit.

« on: November 03, 2015, 05:52:52 PM »

Hello

I present you a model which languished for a very, very long time on my shelves, awaiting markings. Recently, I found the model of P-47D-30 of Revell which proposes a French livery for one... French P-47D-28-RE, thus unsuitable for the version D-30. I thought at once of applying this finish to my languishing model...
At the time that I built this kit I had to put the airscrew to the good diameter (Hasegawa's one is for a P-47D-21... and is consequently too small.)

I added the jacks of the extra landing gear doors for the wheel wells. The sleeves of the machine gun tubes are in pieces of hypodermic needles.
Markings are those of GC 2/5 La Fayette. The badge is the one of SPA 167, the Stork with high wings, said " Stork of Guynemer " which had adopted it in homage to Hispano-Suiza for the engines equipping Spad VIIs.

Jicehem

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Aircraft Modeling / Republic P-47D-30-RE Thunderbolt, Revell 1/72

« on: November 03, 2015, 02:04:54 PM »

Hello everybody

Here is my last build, an (officially) F-47D-30-RE Thunderbolt of the French Armée de l'air, in 1956 in Algeria and belonging to Escadron de chasse (Fighter squadron) EC 1/20 "Aurès-Némentcha".
The kit is Revell's model suffering from two major defects : the engine is fixed too low in connexion of the fuselage center line and a too deep fuselage with the result that the extra fuel tank under the belly is almost level with the ground ! I attempted to correct by positionning the engine 2 mm higher, by sanding the belley bu about the same value (after having filled the bottom of putty to avoid getting a hole), by lengthening the landing gear legs by 1 1/2 mm. The markings come from an extra decal sheet (Berna Deacals). Hand brush painting with humbrol Metalcote "Polished aluminium" buffed with aluminium powder.