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Patryk S.
Following! Good luck!

J35J
Taking a chair!👍🏻

Łukasz Gliński
Me 3, I have to see that! Still procrastinating mine 😄
Thomas, are you considering getting rid of the decal with my support perhaps? 😉

Thomas Kolb
Łukasz, I am not going to use the provided decal sheet, so if you want it, just PM me with your address and I can post it.

Thomas Kolb
(And for everybody else with knowledge about the different versions of the Yak-12, yes, I am aware of the differences between the A-version in the kit and the R-version used by the Hungarian People's Army. But since I am not able to scratch build the entire wing and empennage structure, let's just call it artistic license.)

Cuajete
Looking good so far, Thomas 👍
Feel free to take artistic license 😉

Robert Podkoński
Watching for sure!

Alec K
Taking a seat, looks great 👍

Thomas Kolb
Thank you very much, dear gentlemen for your attention and encouraging words!

Michael Kohl
Following too

Nicolas
I'm joining in as well. Great build so far. 👍

Bruce Huxtable
Admiring your skills, and learning from your problem-solving, Thomas. Transforming an A-Model kit adds to the challenges 😉

Thomas Kolb
Thank you Michael, Nicolas & Bruce for your interest and compliments! This kit is actually not quite as bad as some other Amodel kits I have built - the designers have created some pretty nifty solutions here! If anything, it is a bit unforgiving - make one small mistake and you can be sure that it will keep coming back to kick you.

Łukasz Gliński
What a cool visor 👍

Cuajete
Great progress! 👍

Bernhard Pethe
Wunderbarer Modellbau. Ich hab das Modell auch noch liegen und genauso wollte ich es auch machen. Mal sehen, wenn ich groß bin. 😉

Thomas Kolb
Bernhard, danke schön! 🙂 Ja, es ist ein ziemlich kniffliges Modell, aber es macht großen Spaß, es zu bauen!

Cuajete
Looks great so far, Thomas 👍

Nicolas
Yes Thomas, I don't think you get any easy builds from Amodel. But with some work you get a nice and rare model. I realy like your progress. 👍

Thomas Kolb
Bruce, Lukasz, Cuajete, Nicolas, thank you! Yes, Amodel is actually cool in that they take a chance to make models outside the ordinary. Who else would design a model kit of a strange and ugly little high-winged Soviet aircraft instead of another Stuka, Tomcat or a Spitfire?

Dietmar Bogatzki
great build and paintjob

Thomas E.
thank you for your comment and likes. TT

Michael Kohl
Following

Dominik Weitzer
great start. you make excellent work

Martin Oostrom
Two Beemers at the same time? Love it

MS K
Painting the shell requires drying time, so I started working on something else in the meantime, and it happened to be a BMW again. 😉

Carlos Proença
Following. Nice job!!!!!

Treehugger
Presumably a good-enough decal softener will help against silvering, where silvering is air tapped under the decal because of the rough texture of the painted surface.
Solvaset = stronger decal softener
MicroSol = default decal softener?

After applying a decal softener, the decals MUST NOT be touched, even if it starts looking wrinkly. The wrinkles all disappear after a while.

One thing I like to do after airbrushing on primer and also paint, is to gently go over with sanding sponge, but never over edges as that will surely removed paint off the plastic, but large flat surfaces are typically safe to sand down very gently, to create a more flat surface. For this to work, it is important that the base layer, the primer paint, is sanded flat first, else the uneven primer paint will show through the paint layer, if you only sand the paint layer on top.

schecter87
I'm using Tamiya Mark Fit Super Strong. Just apply the softener to the surface of the decal and after a couple of minutes, gently press it onto the surface with a cotton swab. If the decal is not welded, then it may fall off in pieces along with the varnish 🙁 .

Sy Bar
Love the use of UV resin on the logo badges, an idea I'll use from now on many thanks

MS K
You're welcome~ 😉

Maurits van der Aa
Nice progress my friend. A lot of improvements you made

D P
That's awesome! But how did you fix silvering? The end result looks perfect.

MS K
@D P - It's simple. I painted leveling thinner with a paint brush. 😉

nikfrost
very nice indeed

Maurits van der Aa
But why did you copy the grille in transparant?

MS K
BMW M3 Type E30 (Fujimi 12572, 1:24)
I have Fujimi M3, and since the grill quality on this product is terrible, I thought I might be able to apply it, so I copied it.

Erik
Great result! For me, the Blackbird is and remains the most futuristic aircraft ever. ❤️️

Sven Schönyan
Interesting weathering! I like the mottled red hull parts. Did you use a sponge or splatting with a bruch?

Rui S
Looking good 👍 I'm in 😎

Danumurthi Mahendra
Thanks, @Rui!

Alec K
Amazing weathering effects 👍

Pietro De Angelis
Beautiful work all around, congrats!

gorby
Very nice work!

Danumurthi Mahendra
Thanks, @Alec, @Pietro, and @Gorby! Hope to get it done soon!

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress.

Guy Rump
Looking great!

Danumurthi Mahendra
Thanks, @Villiers and @Guy!

Doubtingmango
Great work! Nice to see someone else sticking stowage to clothes pins for painting!

Danumurthi Mahendra
Thanks, @Doubtingmango. I love adding stowages, it helps make the model more interesting.

Danumurthi Mahendra
In case anyone is interested, I made this short video summarizing the weathering approach. Youtube Video

Jerry DeLuyck
That turned out great!

gorby
Thanks for the weathering video. Very interesting.

Danumurthi Mahendra
Thank you, @Jerry. And you are welcome, @Gorby!

Guy Rump
Great job and informative video. 👍

Danumurthi Mahendra
Thank you, @Guy!

Lex Jassies
A very nice piece of work Danumurthi!!