WIP Revell Polikarpov I-153 Chaika
The boxart. There is some rigging here, which isn't in the instructions. Do I dare.....
The contents of the box
The instructions. I like the glossy coloured instructions.
Not a lot of paints needed to get the basic look.
Not a lot of decals either... Only one version included.
There are 2 sprues, which used to be 1 before someone broke it in half to fit it in a box.
This is what it used to be, or should be 😉
It seems this is a rebox of a ICM kit. Never done one before, so...
The fuselage looks ok. Some nice ingraved details
Underside of the wings looks ok too.
Some smaller parts
Hardly any flash
Parts look very good. I expect a shake 'n' bake build. Will it be????
Tubular bits for the cockpit put together. Fidgety
Driver's seat. Pretty bare.
Drilled holes for the rigging.
Painted interior of fuselage.
Wheel wells as well
Interior of the fuselage painted.
Painted the engine & bombs Panzergrau. Added some lead pencil for metallic effect.
Shamelessly stole Flop_Se's creativity. Drilled some extra holes.
Shamelessly stole Flop_Se's creativity. Drilled holes to simulate exhausts.
Shamelessly stole Flop_Se's creativity. Drilled holes to simulate exhausts.
Tubing painted.
Bit too much flash... Seat glued to 'pit floor.
Tubing glued to 'pitfloor.
Tubing glued to 'pitfloor.
Dry fit of fuselage & lower wing.
First time ever for pre-shading. Used a permanent marker.
Painted underside & some parts Revell 49. Don't see much of the pre-shading....
Fuselage & lower wing painted A.Mig-004 Reseda green opt B
Upper wing painted A.Mig-004 Reseda green opt B
Cowling painted A.Mig-004 Reseda green opt B
Did the camo freehand by Airbrush. Colour is a mixture of A.Mig-232 Schwarzgrün & Vallejo 71.057 Black
Upper wing & struts glued. Rigging is underway. This kit is tiny, rigging this is **** of a job.Painted the prop. Decided that is like a red spinner better than a black one. She's Russian after all 😉
Rigging turned out ok.
Decals cut out.
Underside.
Starboard side
Port side
Because my wife kills my models faster than I can build them, whilst cleaning, I bought some display cases from Trumpeter. Regretted this immediately, ugly black plastic. So I went a step further and decided to build a dio.... The concrete is AK concrete.
I want a long shallow puddle along the concrete. I painted the bottom with Ammo's Russian Brown (020), Russian Tan (021) & Protective Green (023)
Made some colour variation with Ammo's PLW Orange Brown (1616), PLW Stone Grey (1615) & PLW Green Brown (1612)
Finished the concrete with Ammo's Fresh Engine Oil (1408) & Mig Oil and Grease Stain Mixture
Filled the last corner with some grass.
Added the Vallejo Transparant Water (26201), mixed with the tiniest drop of Ammo's Light Wood (038) to hopefully get a 'dirty' look.
That water gel is hard to get flat. I wonder what it looks like in the morning.....
Not exactly what I was looking for. This isn't a puddle, this is light mud. Aaah decisions. Wlli I attempt a salvage operation or just declare this ok?
First salvage attempt failed, miserably. Perhaps thinned the 'water'. With too much water. Attempt two to commence shortly.
Apply the water then smoothen with a moist/wet flat brush.
Gives a reasonable still pond
Komentáře
7 April 2017, 06:52
Martin OostromIt's official: I'm a fraud. I'm going to (shamelessly) copy the ideas of a more creative modeller.
Take a bow mr. Polikarpov I-153 Chaika ( Revell) | Album by Flop_Se (1:72)
10 April 2017, 19:21
Martin OostromThanks Stanley, I'll keep that in mind.
For the first time ever I painted camo with an airbrush. Decided to do it the hard way; freehand. I'm quite satisfied with the result.
21 April 2017, 10:39
Erik LeijdensYes, looks good Martin, maybe a bit too soft demarcations but it looks ok to me 👍
21 April 2017, 11:33
Alec KNice freehand Martin. You are brave to do that! What airbrush did you use?
21 April 2017, 12:28
Martin OostromThanks Erik, Alec & Łukasz.
The demarcations are soft. I didn't/wouldn't take the time to mask. The plane itself is quite small and I wanted to give freehand a go. In reality there is some tiny splattering of the darker colour on the light colour.
I'm using a Harder & Steenbeck Evolution with the whole shabang. It comes with a 0.2 & 0.4 needleset. I also bought the pressure control valve and the needle limiter. I can recommend both.
The camo was done with the 0.2 needleset.
21 April 2017, 17:21
Martin OostromI found cleaning of my airbrush very tedious. It actually made me long for a hairy stick. Eventually I found some good tips on this site:
cs.finescale.com/fsm..s/f/18/t/155694.aspx
21 April 2017, 17:24
Martin OostromThanks Christian. It's little indeed. I tried rigging it, succeeded in the end. Was finnicky job. Now I'll let the glue set for at least a night, cutting of the extra wire will be done later. All that's left is the under carriage, decalling, panel line wash and perhaps some weathering. I'll have a peak at Flop's progress for ideas. 🙂
21 April 2017, 19:19
Alec KNice. I have just ordered the Harder & Steenbeck Infinity, so can't wait to try it (have Iwata Eclipse and CM-C Plus now). Yes, airbrush cleaning is a pain, but it does eventually become routine and not so bad 🙂
21 April 2017, 21:01
Martin OostromGutentag Herr Flop. I just took a look at your build. Our progress is quite similar. Yours is more sophisticated though. I like the extra effort you took with the exhausts and the brake lines.
22 April 2017, 21:12
Thomas Bischoffnice build - looking at the free hand camo I would say that the paint (dark green) would have required more thinning?
23 April 2017, 12:43
Martin OostromThanks Thomas. The light paint was too thick and gave me some problems. Had to clean the brush to het it going again. The dark paint splattered a bit. I'm too novice to determine whether it's pressure, distance or thinning. Have you got some clues for me?
23 April 2017, 15:39
Thomas Bischoffthe splatters would indicate that the paint was not enough diluted.
Pressure is a very personal thing - each paint can be different, depends also on the thinning. Just try different settings on a testbed before applying to the "real" thing
23 April 2017, 15:51
Martin OostromMy wife kills my models while cleaning my room faster than I can build them. So I bought some Trumpeter display cases. The ugly black plastic base made my eyes hurt. So I decided to do a diorama. Started out simple with a concrete pad with some grass alongside. A small shallow puddle should bring some variation to the scene.
As usual, feel free to enlighten me were I went wrong, overdid some stuff or stopped too early 😉
15 June 2017, 19:39
Thomas Bischoffnice start on the base - every model looks nicer with a decent display!
16 June 2017, 18:15
Martin OostromAdded the water, at least tried it. Hopefully tomorrow I can clean the base up a bit along the edges. I'm very curious about the result. 🙂
16 June 2017, 19:57
Martin OostromNot exactly what I was looking for. This isn't a puddle, this is light mud. Aaah decisions. Wlli I attempt a salvage operation or just declare this ok?
Flop, Thomas & James, thank you for your encouragement.
17 June 2017, 07:10
Thomas BischoffI don't want to bring you down but it does not look very convincing - I vote for a salvage operation!
17 June 2017, 15:07
Christian BruerHi Martin,
I don't know the Vallejo Water Medium, but I guess it is not clear because you add a drop of colour to the medium?!
From my point of view you should paint just the background and not the water medium. This only should give clarity and a depth effect to the painted surface. The more layers of medium you apply the more depth effect you will get.
May you should try to paint the surface again with the preferred colours, let it dry and then add one or two final layers of water medium using a flat brush in a stippling motion. Make sure the first layer is dry before you add a second layer. The thicker each layer the more drying time.
By the way, I always use Schmicke acrylic high gloss gel no. 53005, to add effects to my ship model displays. I never dilute it with water, it is possible but not necessary!
schmincke.de/en/prod..llege-gloss-gel.html
Hope that helps and keep on the good work 👍
Cheers, Christian
18 June 2017, 10:17
Martin OostromHi Christian,
Thabks for the advice. I did paint the underground. I added 1 drop of paint to my water, just go get it murky. The stippling is what I dont like. A puddle should have a smooth surface. Mine looks like light mud. I'll try once more to get it smoothened, otherwise I'll paint it a darker shade of brown and declare it mud 🙂
There are plenty of tutorials on the web to create waves, wakes and the like. It seems I'm just using the wrong product for my puddle. Resin looks like the way to go, or vallejo still water. But I dont have those 😎
18 June 2017, 11:12
Martin OostromApply the Vallejo water. Then smoothen wit a moist/wet flat brush. The result would be passable if not for the older tinted 'water'.
So now its too smooth for mud and too rough underneath for a nice puddle.
I'll park the Chaika over it (sort of) and declare it finished and unsalvageble.
18 June 2017, 18:56
