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soheil moghisi
Very nice.

Łukasz Gliński
thanks

Ekki
Lovely built.

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks Ekki

Łukasz Gliński
Thank you Anna - I like them too, there are couple more waiting in my stash (PF, PFM & F-13)

komoras
Nice Mig! 👍

Łukasz Gliński
@komoras - thanks a lot
@ Anna - I heard Eduard 21 in 1/48 is quite good, but 48 is completely not my story 😉

Calvin Gifford
Sublime work! And thanks for sharing about the rocket launchers - I knew there was a reason I had picked up that Dragon 1/72 Soviet Weapons set 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Thx Calvin, the original ones are rather poor indeed 🙂

Alec K
A classic! Nice job 👍

Łukasz Gliński
So true! Must have been green and orange 😄

Bernd Grün
Nice build of that Oldie. 👌 Congrats, mate!

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

Nicolas
@ Cuajete: I tried it direktly from Thomas' albums. There it works, but ther is a notice that comments are disabled.

Cuajete
Thank you, Nicolas 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Lovely shading Sir 👍

Moreno Baruffini
Very nice! This build reminds me that I started a similar kit more thas ten years ago, with a Czech camo and some decals already applied...Now It's om the "shelf od doom" ...Maybe something I'll retake it!

Michael Kohl
Weird. Cool. I like it.

Patrick Hagelstein
This is awesome! Arnold looks spot on!

Gary Victory
Love it...Top work.

Mid Franconian
It took a while for me to capture the scene and and bring it together with True Lies 😄! Perfectly done and off the beaten track!

Erik
Great! ❤️️

Spanjaard
excellent depiction of the scene

NorK
That is just great! 😂
(Have you tried closing the aperture and increasing exposure time for a better depth of field? Tripod recommended)

John Kauck
Very Cool! Well done!

Sky after Snow
Thank you for your suggestion NorK. Will try this.

Oliver
great idea! 😄

Bob Hall
"I remember the first time I got shot out of a cannon" CLASSIC! One liners galore !

DerMattes
Fantastic! 🙂

Nicolas
Following

Oliver
Watching, have the same in Stock!

Thomas Kolb
Nice! I will definitely take a seat!

J35J
Taking a chair and following with intrest!👍🏻

DerMattes
Following with interest. I have the kit in my stash too, beautiful plane!

Ekki
Watching.

Vincent
Good luck with this one!!

Finn
Following

Thomas Kolb
Nicely finished! Although I doubt that the Gripen would be easy to fly with all that angry stuff hanging from its pylons! 😉

Nicolas
Nice work.

Bernd Grün
Great result. 👍 Congrats, mate.

Shar Dipree
Cool, love the B-26 and love your dio.

Doubtingmango
Excellent build. Clever presentation

Gary Victory
Lovely work and presentation John. Fantastic job Sir.

Florian H.
Da schau ich mal zu

Dave Flitton
Massive! where are you going to put it?

BAT21
Right next to my Mi-22 😉

Yellow 23 | Album by BAT21 (1:72)

Alec K
Another monster! I am in 👍

Nicolas
Ich nehm mir auch mal nen Stuhl.

BAT21
Welcome on board.

Thomas Kolb
Cool! This I just need to follow!

Robert Podkoński
Me too!

BAT21
I'm glad you're part of this project.

Robert Podkoński
I have uploaded a few photos of Polish Mi-6 before and after restoration here:
Once there was a collection | Album by podkon ; and here:
Polish Air Force Museum - Dęblin | Album by podkon. Perhaps you will find them useful.

BAT21
👍

Ekki
Watching.

Michael Kohl
BAT21 builds a chopper? Not without me!

BAT21
Thank you very much for your interest.

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Can't wait to see it finish !

Florian H.
Sehr schön, Gratulation zu diesem Ergebnis 👍

BAT21
Danke Florian.

Bernd Grün
Promising start. 👍🏻 Following with interest!

BAT21
It's nice that the audience seats are filling up.

Alec K
Solid progress 👍

Alexander Grivonev
Habe den Kit seit Jahren im Besitz, traue mich aber nicht ran. Was für ein Monster👍

BAT21
Wer bei der Tu 128 von Trumpeter alle Fehler in Perfektion beseitigt hat, muss sich nicht vor der Mi-6 fürchten.
Etwas Spachtelmasse und Schleifpapier bereitlegen... und schon kann es losgehen 😉

Alexander Grivonev
Ja das war wirklich eine Baustelle das Ding. Aber trotz des Ehrgeizes der Chinesen, dem Modellbauer auch den letzten Nerv zu rauben, sieht mir Amodel so auf den ersten Blick nach mehr Arbeit aus...

Gergő Takács
Wow! Very cool Project! I will take a seat! 🙂

Pierre Pierre
Following

BAT21
Feel welcome mates.

Michael Kohl
Starts to look like a Mil Mi-6? Well, then it's time to charge the teaser to a picture of your model. 😉

Juergen Klinglhuber
Joining in late, but sure worth it. Clean built on this "filling the gaps" giant. 👍

Treehugger
Q: The tiny "brass" colored tubes for the wiring on the main rotor head, are those bits of cut up syringe tips?

BAT21
For these parts I cut 0.5mm brass tubes from Albion Alloys.

Spanjaard
rotor head is truly impressive

Alec K
I agree, pimped to the hilt 👍

Casey Beckett
Recently discovered Albion Alloys here - lovely stuff!

BAT21
Many thanks guys, much appreciated.

CaptGPF
That rotor work is sick!
…but so is the PE cockpit work at this scale! Watching!

Alec K
Excellent progress 👍

Łukasz Gliński
On the pic #35 it looks professional, not provisional 😉

Florian H.
Sehr schönes farbspiel

BAT21
Many thanks 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Yes it is time 👍 Brilliant shading btw

Michael Kohl
Great finish

Erik
"So what do you think? Time to remove the masks from the windows?"
Yes! 👍 😉

BAT21
Thank you mates.
The self-cut masks on the side windows revealed a catastrophic picture after removal: something sticky remained on the windows... the hoped-for cover was also rather poor, the paint got under the masks at the edges. 🤬

Now I'll make a calming coffee and then try to repair it.

Alec K
Damn, that sucks. I had same experience on several builds, nothing some scraping and reapplication of Future can't fix.

Thomas Kolb
That's unfortunate, but maybe you can remove the tape residue with some IPA alcohol and cotton buds?

BAT21
I scraped everything off with a toothpick, more or less. Not the best result, but the model was able to avoid being thrown away.

Mr D
Very nicely done, great panel shading 👌 Brilliant 👍👍👍

Mr D
Nicely done 👍 Great panel shading 👌, Brilliant 👍👍

Guy Rump
A very good result, you wouldn't realise the issues you had. 👍

Spanjaard
seems you recovered pretty well from the problem, congratulations great result

Ekki
Very, very good chopper!
Well done.

Nicolas
Great result. 👍

BAT21
Thanks mates, much appreciated

Rui S
Excellent as always 👍

BAT21
With the attachment of the last parts and the assembly of the antenna forest, the helicopter is finished and the project is complete.

Thanks to everyone who has been part of this strenuous journey... and now have fun with the final pictures.

Łukasz Gliński
Respect for the antennas. It looks great in the taiga 👍

Spanjaard
congrats on a great model

Neuling
Top work and photos!

Ronan
Very nice, congrats 👍

BAT21
Many thanks for your nice words mates - much appreciated.

Finn
Fantastic, congrats!

Zbynek Honzik
Beautiful! I like it very much! 👏👏👏

Alec K
Outstanding 👍

BAT21
Thanks guys 😎

Bernd Grün
Outstanding result! 👌 Congratulation.