and other artistic stuff
With the missiles in place and the weathering done, I’ll consider this build finished!
It is a nice kit that goes together very well and barely needs any filler. I used a little on the wings where they meet the fuselage and some sprue glue took care of the seams on the fuselage and along the spine.
I wouldn’t mind building one more in another scheme if I get the opportunity to get one.
Here’s some pics of the finished build!
The MiG now sits nicely in my cabinet, so on to the next build! 🙂
I added the missiles and then started weathering with Flory’s Grime wash.
I then removed the excess wash once it had dried.
I then repeated the process on the underside and lastly I used black oil wash to dirty down a few spots a bit more.
The result of the weathering will be posted in the final reveal.
As I participated in a 1/48 scale SIG group build, I had a deadline yesterday (31th of may) I had to try and finish it.
Part of the struggle was all the stencils. I decided to not use all of them. Instead I tried to put stencils where it was most noticable.
Then it was time to glue gears and all missing parts.
On the other side I glued pitot tube and antenna, and removed the tape from the canopy.
I also wanted to missiles in place, but due to stress I messed it up a bit.
I removed the missiles before I took pics for the final reveal.
Now I’ll glue the missiles properly and do some weathering, and then take new pics.
Time for some decals!
Those went on very nice! All the stencils feels like a struggle though, taking forever! 🙂
Here some are on, but I still got quite a few to do.
After some more painting it looked like this.
I noticed that I needed to do some touching up in some places.
I also noticed a ghost seam on the nose.
I used some sprue glue and then sanded it down and painted it again.
After some more work I was happy with how it looked.
There’s supposed to be red stripes on the rear end of the body, and I thought it was decals.
Turned out I had to paint them. I tried to mask so I could paint the stripes with red, but it was hard to get the thin stripes of tape look straight and parallell.
So I used a different approach, and painted the area where the stripes should go with red, and then cut 5 mm tape stripes and put them in place. In some way it was easier to do like this.
I then painted aluminium again.
I had to touch up some spots where the tape had leaked.
After that was done I removed all masking except on the canopy and then painted a few details here and there. I also did some touching up.
Lastly I painted some covers and pistons for the landing gears and covers.
I got a few more details to paint, then it’s time for decals and final assembly. With four days left on the SIG group build, I’ll hopefully will finish it and perhaps add some weathering too.
I have a small base or dio intended for this build, and I’ll sort that later, but until then I’ll consider this one finished.
This kit have been laying in my stash for several years, and now I got an opportunity to build it in a Soviet themed group build.
This kit can be motorized and supplied are 2 shafts, rubber hosing, propellars and clips for the batteries. As I got this kit 2nd hand, I’m not sure if engines also was supplied or if they’re supposed to be bought separately. There are nothing in the instructions telling how to install the engines or wiring and switch.
Anyway, I’m not doing it motorized as I only will have it sitting on my shelf. Luckily there are plastic shafts and scale propellars included in the kit. As I don’t want to risk breaking them while handling the model in the early stages of the construction, I skipped that step in the instructions for now.
Instead I started with the radar and whatever it is that sits on top of the main structure.
Then I started with the two topmost buildings.
Assembled!
Parts to the bottom part of the structure.
The stand also needed some attention!
Some filler was needed to sort minor gaps and other cavaties on the structure buildings.
More radar parts to assemble that needed some touches of putty.
To continue I needed to assemble more small parts. I also test fitted the building parts.
The underside of the hull had a seam that needed to be taken care of.
I test fitted the main deck which contains of three parts, here the aft.
And the front.
I also did a test fit of the main building.
A dozen small Yak-38 planes took a while to clean up.
I still need to figure what colours to paint them in as well as the helicopters that I haven’t started on yet.
Radar and search lights assembled.
Sometimes clamps are useful, like when holding parts to the hull while the glue dries.
Once the internal parts like bays for the boats was in place, I could glue the deck parts.
The instructions says the mid sections should be last, which I think is due to the motorized version where this part needs to be removable. But as there was a bit of a gap between the mid and rear section, I glued the rear section last, and will push the rear part of the hull forward to close that gap as much as possible instead.
One of the reasons for this is the raised detail on the deck, which makes using filler a bit harder without destroying the details. Not sure I can avoid that entirely, and I would have prepared decals for the helicopter pads and landing/start strip.
Some plastic and filler was needed to sort some seams and gaps. I’ll see how the rear seam turns out. In the front I have a slight step that needs to be taken care of as well.
Soon I can start painting. I just need to figure what paints to use, as I don’t use or have Gunze colours.