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Guy Rump
The next aircraft for my WW2 collection will be a bit bigger than the other ones I have built so far this year. 🙂

Guy Rump
Made a start on the B-25 C with the cockpit area. Mainly used Vallejo Model Air US Light Green 🙂

Many thanks mate for your interest and like Franck G. 👍

Guy Rump
Bomb bay added for both sides. Cockpit etc added to fuselage on one side. Ballast added to hopefully not make it a tail sitter. 🙂

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Pietro DA, airjuneau & 1 other mate. 👍

Nicolas
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Guy Rump
Bombs painted olive drab , decals added and affixed. 🙂

Welcome Nicolas. 👍

Thanks mates for your interest and likes Edward M, Sukhoi242, J35J & Dom S. 👍

Guy Rump
Fuselage together, wings and tail attached. No real issues 🙂

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes William J, Mirko R & Djordje N. 👍

Guy Rump
Engines now attached to the wings and the rear undercarriage. 🙂

Many thanks mate for your interest and like Lukasz G. 👍

Guy Rump
Not much progress here, the front undercarriage was added and then further weights were added where I could in order to stop it being a tail sitter. 🙂

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Andrew B, Dave F, Bernd G & 1 other mate. 👍

Guy Rump
Main canopies and windows now attached and masked. Ready for primer! 🙂

Many thanks mate for your interest and like Alex. 👍

Guy Rump
Primer added and pre-shading. Next will be to paint (finally) the underside. 🙂

Many thanks mate for your interest and like scaleffect. 👍

Guy Rump
Underside colour (Vallejo Model Air Neutral Grey) added. 🙂

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes NordMito & Joseph L. 👍

Guy Rump
Upper painted with Vallejo Model Air US Desert Sand. Undercarriage wheels added. Next will be gloss varnish and adding decals. 🙂

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Alain C, Neil & Edgars B. 👍

István Szücs
I almost missed this, really great work!

Guy Rump
I now declare this one complete. A large amount of weight has to be put into the front of the aircraft to avoid it tail sitting. The propeller holes have to be made larger to fit. 🙂

Thanks for the kind comment Istvan, I appreciate it greatly! 👍

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Istvan S & Zbynek H. 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Very cool! You picked very interesting camo with that map, stars, bars and British fin flashes 👍
Many thanks for reviewing the kit too 👍

Guy Rump
Thanks for the kind comment Lukasz, I appreciate it greatly. 👍

I'm not certain why there are British fin flashes, I followed the decal guide provided with the kit. Perhaps someone else knows?

The plane denoted was "Desert Warrior" crewed by Captain Ralph Lower, Pilot Officer Anthony Arthur Martin (RCAF), Sgt. John R Dawdy, Sgt. J.B. Saragalo, Lt. Floyd R. Pond, Lt. T.R. Tate, Lt. W.O. Seaman, 81st Bombardment Squadron (Medium), 12th Bombardment Group (Medium), Boiling Field, Washington DC, July 1943.

Capt Lower completed his 52nd mission and then with "Desert Warrior" flew back to the US with the above crew for a tour of the US. The art work was done prior to heading off to the US for the tour, one of the artists was a RAF Cpl.

Mr D
Nice model Guy 👌.. they certainly left there mark in history.
😃👍

Mark Sherwood
Good looking B25 Guy. 👍🥸🤘

Nicolas
Nice result Guy. 👍

Guy Rump
Many thanks Mr D, Mark & Nicolas for your kind comments, they are greatly appreciated. 👍

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Robert P, Marcel, Cuajete, Andre K, Franck D, Oleg B, Mark S, Petr K & 1 other mate. 👍

Stephen Lesley
Hello Guy. This one's a beauty! Just love that desert pink camo scheme. Turned out really well. Suits the B-25 so much.

Guy Rump
Thanks for the very kind comment Stephen, it's greatly appreciated. 👍

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Jan Z, Soeren R, Stephen L & Andreas K. 👍

Micky
Excellent work my friend! Very nice plane! I have one in my stash and will ask for some advice in the future, Guy.

Marius
Good luck Andy!
The Algerian is interesting, but in case you need more inspiration, there were a couple of metallic Egyptian ones with colorful tails and interesting unit markings.
This decal sheet here is particularly well documented:
MiG-17 Around The World - As.. I (ModelMaker D72155, 1:72)

And preview pictures of the instructions can be found here:
super-hobby.de/produ..27.html?partner_id=9

And btw, I am not sure if this is of interest to you, but the seat from the Airfix kit is wrong. It's a weird representation of a KK-1 seat which the MiG-17 never had in the series production. You would need a KK-2 seat, which is offered by Pavla or Amigo Models, but it's very very difficult to find anywhere.

Andy Ball
Thanks Marius, the decals aren't in the best of registers either.I wanted to do aluminium to again test my skills in this medium. I'd heard about the seat issues, and with the one supplied. Perhaps I'll check the differences to see if there's a wprk-around?, do you know of any?

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat, of course! 😉 (in the near future I intend to mash up the Kovozavody and the Airfix kits in order to build the proper Polish "Last of the LiM's")

Cuajete
I can't miss this! 👍

Andy Ball
Robert, can't you do it through the Airfix with some aftermarkets? I've pretty much assembled it today/yesterday- the fit is pretty good. Not sure if it was me or the kit, but some attention to filling around the nose is all so far….

Andy Ball
Hey hey Cuajete amigo! Glad to have you along !!

Robert Podkoński
It is simply because I have had Kovozavody kit in my stash 😉 - the decals are better (the ones included in Airfix kit are not wholly adequate...), yet Airfix is much more modeller-friendly, as you've proven this above 🙂

Cuajete
Well done so far, Andy! 👍

Andy Ball
@Robert- good to know, and hope we'll see it soon.
@Cuajete- more done tonight on account of your encouragement!
Thanks Slavo!!
It could be a quick build?

Bernd Grün
Interesting topic, Andy. follow with interest. 👍

Andy Ball
Thank-you Bernd, still in a quandary over what to decal it.

Bernd Grün
In my opnion Cambodian would be the favorite. 😉

Cuajete
I agree with Bernd. I also prefer the Cambodian one for the red ray, although the Algerian would also look very good in Andy's master hands. That snake and the grey-upper over aluminium could be very nice 👍

Waiting for the next progress.

Bernhard Pethe
Ich schaue da mal mit zu.
Die R-3S an der MiG-17 finde ich interessant. Kannte ich bis jetzt nicht. Sicher eine koreanische "Erfindung" .

Andy Ball
Thanks Sukhoi242 and the others for having a look.
Gentlemen- I love the suggestions for decals, but on inspection the Cambodian ones are off register, the N Korean and Algerian are about the best to use on a '17F….watch this space!
Thanks @Cortex!

Andy Ball
I won't be making any Korean sidewinder "look-a-likes", Bernhard, the Dear Leader wouldn't assist with the blueprints

Andy Ball
Thanks Rui and Patryk S, hope to provide some entertainment!

Ekki
Watching too.

Andy Ball
Hey Ekki, cheers!!

Andy Ball
Mirko, thanks. I'll post some "short finals" soon.

Andy Ball
Thanks Helio and everyone else….I'm pretty much done with this. Overall a quick and relatively painless build.

Cuajete
Looks great, Andy! 👍

Andy Ball
Thank-you Cuajete, I'm saying 'done' and will reflect on whether to weather it!

Maciej Bellos
Should you weather it, "Dear Leader" will probably have some "words" with you...
Lovely result Andy!

Robert Podkoński
That NMF looks great, Andy! (but Soviet-build planes never looked shiny, as they were covered with some 'protective' transparent lacquer, to the best of my knowledge. Here you can see few museum examples: Polish Air Force Museum - Dęblin | Album by podkon - it's up to you, whether to tone down the shine or not. Personally, I would leave the NMF as it is now 😉 )

Bernd Grün
Nice finish of your 'Fresco'. I like it. Cheers, Andy! 👌

Andy Ball
Thanks Ogre-Trombone!
In glorious utopian make-kingdom of Socialist Republic I will leave as is for now. The dear leader may have expected the guns to have fired at the fascist whores south of his border, so perhaps a little gun smoke, Marciej?
@Robert: I love the fact the Polish would not polish their MiGs…get it?…@ Bernd, vielen danke mein Freund!

Robert Podkoński
LOL! 😄

Marius
Andy, that's actually a really good looking MiG-17! Congratulations on the very good looking model! I don't remember seeing a North Korean one too often.

For the sake of the discussiom, I'll also add a short comment regarding the shininess: Robert is right that they were covered from the factory (together with all MiG-15s, and early MiG-21s) with a varnish coat mixed with a metallic pouder (5%-10%). The result varied depending on the factory. Nevertheless, I am not convinced that the museum pieces from Robert's link are that representative though, since some are repainted in actual silver while those which weren't are of course afected by the age (Aluminium turns really matt after some decades).

Overall, if we're looking at photographs from the 50s-60s, there were several skin panels which were somewhat shiny, but many rather semi-matt.
One fast example:
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But if I were you, I wouldn't change anything anymore, you model looks very good the way it is and taking photographs of models in NMF is in itself a bit tricky sometimes due ot lightning, at least in my case.

Andy Ball
Thanks Cuajete!!, and Marius - do you think a coat of semi-gloss may help tone it down, or matt even?

Guy Rump
Missed this, very nice indeed. 👍

Andy Ball
Thanks Arif and &Guy, you caught us in the end!, cheers.

Andy Ball
Thanks/Merci Curatorm

Andy Ball
Patryk S: both myself and the Respected Comrade General Secretary thank-you for your like.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Andy Ball
Thanks Peter and Villiers- (I will let Kim know)

Andy Ball
Pierre: merci aussi! Et M. Kim envoie ses salutations.

Ekki
Very good work!

Andy Ball
Ekki: you're too kind!, however, thank-you

Łukasz Gliński
We definitely deserve more pics from the Dearest Leader's inspection 👍

Andy Ball
Due to the Imperial Fascists blockade of SD card technologies- we may need to wait….
Thanks Connor for the look

Andy Ball
Thank-you Felix and others in your appreciation!

Micky
Nice plane Andy! Great work!

Vittorio Gentili
Very nice!

Nicolas M.
Thank you Vittorio, this is a nice model, but really small.

Alec K
Turned out superb 👍

gorby
Nice work.

Mojo DeVirus
Hey, where did you get this baby? Point me to the right direction please. =)

Pierre Delattre
Hi
You can buy stl file here : cults3d.com/fr/mod%C..urret-w-gun-2x7-62mm

Mojo DeVirus
Thank you.

Dave Flitton
Nice. I just earmarked that file for the future.

Michael Kohl
Promising start.

Mr D
Looking good 👍 nice project 👍

Xinnan Zhao
Thanks Kohl and Mr D😄

Tom B.
Nice one 👍 The obiquitous yet often underestimated logistic and support vessels gettin their spotlight in modelling is really nice. All those details for the piping etc. should really be interesting!

Dave Flitton
Looking good. What PE set are you using?