Polikarpov i-16 Type 17 Hasegawa 1/72
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39 3 September 2021, 16:15
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Started this build with painting internals Vallejo Model Air AMT-28-M greyish blue (internal colour for Soviet metal aircraft). Engine bits gunmetal. 🙂
3 September 2021, 16:19
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Fuselage and wings together. Pilot added.
For comparison of size put an ME 109 F-4 next to the i-16. 🙂
4 September 2021, 14:56
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Vallejo Model Air AII Zashchitnyi Camouflage Green added to top. The other top camouflage colour is next. 🙂
3 October 2021, 16:13
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Vallejo Model Air AMT-6 added for camouflage to upper wings and fuselage. 🙂
9 October 2021, 10:57
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Vallejo gloss varnish added and decals applied. The Hasegawa decals took an age to come off the backing paper and then appeared to be very thin and wrinkled easily. 🙂
15 October 2021, 16:04
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One nice "Donkey" I see here - watching with pleasure and interest 😉
15 October 2021, 16:36
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This plane looks really cute in1/72😆
But looks really good! Maybe i try it once too!
15 October 2021, 18:14
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Matt varnish applied (Vallejo). Most of undercarriage has now been affixed as well as the prop. Varnish on the top of the left hand wing is taking its time to dry. 🙂
22 October 2021, 15:45
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Other bits and pieces have now been applied.
I now declare that the Polikarpov i-16 Type 17 is complete.
Pilot: Senior Lt Vasil'ev Mikhail Yakovlevich Lake Ladoga (Siege of Leningrad) 1942
(29.10.1918 - 04.05.1943)
† - Killed in aerial combat
During the Great Patriotic war he flew over 350 combat sorties. He was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union.
24 October 2021, 12:01
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Many thanks Bruce and Moreno. I seem to have built more this year Moreno. 👍
24 October 2021, 14:58
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Nice job on a very small kit, I know because I am currently building the same one except mine is the type 24. Great job on the camo.
24 October 2021, 15:15
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Many thanks Robert and Mike. @Mike, agreed, the i-16 was very small compared to others I've built. 👍
24 October 2021, 17:04
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Many thanks for all of your kind comments and likes. I am very grateful. 👍
29 October 2021, 11:43
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Thanks for the kind comment Villiers de Vos 👍
Thanks James and Andrej for the likes 👍
28 February 2022, 20:20