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Mark Sherwood
Cheers Mark. 🤘🥸👍

Mark Sherwood
Thanks MFranc for the like. 👍🥸🤘

Mark Sherwood
Thanks for the like Mr Laws. 🤘🥸🤟

Mark Sherwood
Ta. Guillaume. 🤟🥸👍

Mark Sherwood
👍👍👍👍🥸 Jusfiko.

Guy Rump
Another to add to my RAF post war collection. 🙂

Nicolas
Watching

Guy Rump
Made a start on this kit with the cockpit which is quite basic to say the least, part of the reason I put the pilot and navigator in. 🙂

Welcome Nicolas, pull up a seat. 👍

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Freak, Andrew B, Istvan S, Villiers DV, J35J, Andre K, Juskifo, Tommy A, NordMito & 1 other mate. 👍

Skyhiker
Wow! I have this kit and haven't touched it because it's rather intimidating. You've done an amazing job with it.

Alberto Traverso
thank you Skyhiker, kit has some fit issues but I didn't bother, just wanted to see it done, kit is just out of the box, except for the decals, original ones were unusable

James C
Awesome looking shuttle 👍

J35J
Great work! Congrats👍🏻

Marcel Klemmer
Nice job.Congrats👍

Łukasz Gliński
Very nice (and v.huge too) 👍

Alberto Traverso
thank you all 👍 👍

bughunter
Wow, that looks really nice and real 👍

Spanjaard
that is a great rendering of the space shuttle. excellent job.

Robert Podkoński
Fantastic job, especially on the weathering.

Marius
Very impressive!! Love the subject!

Brian Powell
Damn, this is lovely. Thanks for sharing!

Skyhiker
Is that a dry brush technique on the raised panel lines? The results are very good. I was trying to figure out how to manage them. They are out of scale and I was considering re-scribing, or buying decals. But I think that would not make the results any better than what you have achieved. Sometimes easier is better. What paints did you use?

Alberto Traverso
I like more the process of panting and weathering than building. so I try not to over complicate my builds, most of them are just out of the box kits. This is an old kit with few details, some fit issues and inaccuracies, there're really good aftermarket pieces to make it more accurate, but that would take me longer time to finish, and I have other projects that I want to see finished. About the paints I used MRP primer (MRP-APB), Tamiya Insignia White (LP-35) + Tamiya Lacquer Thinner (L-10) as base color, for the white patches Ammo Matt White (MIG-050), and all black areas are Tamiya NATO Black (XF-69), all acrylics thinned with Modellers World Acrylic Doctor Thinner. Everything was covered with VMS Matt Varnish HD. All weathering was done with Oil Wash: Aircraft brownish grey from Modellers World and Oil Wash: For white & winter camouflage also from Modellers World, this two colors were applied as panel line Wash, the cleaning, blending and blurring "washes" was done with OILS thinner & cleaner from Modellers World. No dry brushing, paints, enamels or other techniques were used.

Alberto Traverso
thank you all for the comments

Thomas Kolb
While waiting for some paints to arrive in the mail to continue my MiG-23 build project, I decided to do a very quick build of the Eduard L-39 in my stash. This kit is labeled as a "weekend" build, which might be a bit optimistic for me, but should still be a quick progress.

Clement
Great job on that cockpit.
Following with interest.

Łukasz Gliński
Me 2 👍 That cockpit is astonishing 😮

Harry Eder
Great start! I'll watching 3

Clement
Do you already have a plan for the shades you're going to use? I found the L-39 classic camouflage very hard to get right. I hope you'll have more luck with it.

Mr D
Looking good, cockpit green is 👍 nice.
Coming on good 👌

Łukasz Gliński
@Clement: I think I've seen these colours released lately by Mr.Paiint

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat here.

Ekki
Watching too.

Clement
Thanks @Łukasz, well spotted!

MRP-010 Brown Green ČSN 2250
MRP-013 Khaki ČSN 5450
MRP-027 Light Pastel Grey ČSN 1010

For those interested

Nicolas
Joining

Thomas Kolb
For the Hungarian standard camo, MRP has released an entire set, consisting of MRP-351 Brown, MRP-352 Dark Green and MRP-353 Light Blue.

Thomas Kolb
Yesterday I spent some time comparing the hue and tint of the MRP paints with my own mix of Tamiya acrylics (as described in photo 26 above), and found them to be absolutely identical. I also found the MRP paints much too smelly and aggressive and hard to adjust if you want to blend in slightly varying tones in panels etc. The Tamiyas can furthermore be used for extremely diluted thin filter applications, while the MRP are block solid.

Clement
Well done on those paints!
I agree with you, Tamiya paints spray great and don't smell nearly as nasty as MRP's.

Cuajete
I was missing this one.
Well done so far, Thomas! 👍

J35J
Great progress!👍🏻

Łukasz Gliński
I see you mixed too much of this colour and used it on the background 😋
Lovely preshading, sth I don't have enough patience for

István Szücs
Very nice build and paintwork!

Cuajete
Very nice painting job, Thomas. Looks fantastic so far 👍

I recently saw that Edward has released the transparent parts of this kit as "L-39 Revised Canopy":
L-39 Revised Canopy (Eduard 7040Y, 1:72)

Do you know what problem the original transparent parts have?

Guy Rump
Looking great 👍

Thomas Kolb
Cuajete, thank you! No, I wasn't aware of any issues with the canopy. To me, the version provided in the kit is good enough, it certainly looks correct compared with photos.

Nicolas
I'm not sure, but the kit photos show onle the multi part canopy. The revised Canopy kit also has a single peace closed version.

Thomas Kolb
Nicolas, yes, you are right. With the new set you also get a closed canopy so the builder doesn't have to join the separate pieces together. I guess it makes for a simpler build.

Cuajete
Thank you mates! 👍

Michael Kohl
Taking a late seat. Interesting background information.

Cuajete
Thomas, I thik that your SK 61 Bulldog album was deleted. I can't see it