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Villiers de Vos
Beautiful work.

hotrod55
Cool flat tracker

Martin Oostrom
This I need to see!

Tim Powell
I'm slowly plugging away….itll be essentially OOB

Mona
taking a seat 👀

Bozzer
This is a great kit, I have almost every version of it, in the Revell range. Building up the turbo can be a little tricky, but I don't remember anything too bad about it? Those chrome lights that fit on the back of the sleeper, could've been designed better, to fit? Oh, the tyres are a bit thin, so if you can source some different ones, you will be happy.

Tim Powell
Yeah, I've got most of the Revell kits. Building this to attach to my Dunkin' Donuts trailer

Bozzer
I had to build custom drawers, for my trailer storage. With space fastly running out, it was the only solution. As my stash decreases, more shelves will be going up. Now I really need to stop collecting and start building! Looking forward to seeing your trailer on the back of this though 👍

Bozzer
Great colour scheme, Tim. Did you de-chrome the tanks?

Tim Powell
yes....usually do. Otherwise the seam and other imperfections come through. Also did the battery boxes as well

Bozzer
I gotta admit, they look much better than the kit chrome. I've got a selection of different sized plastic tubes, to make my own tanks. Granted, it's still work, to get them right, but they are noticeable.
Yours look great though. Good job, mate 👍

Tim Powell
Thanks

Martin Oostrom
That is some sharp paintwork! Well done!

David Taylor
Nice

Goldman
Great paintwork. It looks amazing

Łukasz Gliński
Following. At least one Slovak 9.12 wore digital camo, but the Kopro decals might be hard to get nowadays (I just sold mine earlier this year).
MiG-29AS Fulcrum (Kopro 94160, 1:72)

Spanjaard
You can call it a whatif and use whatever decal you want 😉
Question, Ukraine did not ever had 9.12 Mig-29? The reason I am asking is that I wanted to do my 9.12 in Ukrainian colors.... (maybe I need to godot whatis myself....)

Łukasz Gliński
Now it has for sure, at least ex-Polish ones

Spanjaard
Good to know! Thanks Łukasz!

Hang Li
Thanks, Łukasz for sharing the information and Spanjaard for the idea!

I did a little research and found out Slovak started applying digital camo for fulcrum day back in 2006. Unfortunately, I could find any decal for Slovakia Migs in local market, not even the Airforce symbols and numbers. There are many Russian/North Korea decal on the market here however.....

From the news I read lately, Slovakia and Polish Fulcrums has been transferred (at least a small number, although there are modifications made and different with the kit version), So it is possible to have Ukraine colored 912 (maybe not all planes are disassembled for spare parts). I think I will do a bit more research to see if there is more news about it. Cheers!

一生还一夜
Details of the cockpit are subtle! Following.

Nicolas
Joining.

Marius
Well done so far!

Łukasz Gliński
Just found a decal set that covers the 9-12s in Ukraine Air Force, before the Polish&Slovak ones were delivered:
Ukrainian Fulcrums: MiG-29 (.. 9-51) (Foxbot 72-061, 1:72)

Spanjaard
thanks!

Hang Li
thanks

Alec K
Very nice progress 👍

Tibor Szilvai
Expert! 👍

DerMattes
Nice MiG-29! How did you make the airfield?

Hang Li
Thanks all. The airfield diorama base is made with ABS plastic sheet. The first step is cutting all the tile lines. Then I painted it with wood putty mixed with grey paint for all the tiles. I generally brushed each tile in different directions to create slightly different patterns. Remember to polish the surface to make it flat after the putty dried. I airbrushed most of the tiles next with different grays to create some variations and the last step is some weathering works with oil paints and pastel paints.

Łukasz Gliński
Brilliant finish 👍

Hang Li
Thank you Lukasz for the continuous support;)

Mirko Römer
I can only second Lukasz' comment!

Finn
Well done indeed!

Michael Kohl
Basic paint sceem or not, you achieved an excellent result. Top notch are particularly the exhausts. Simple but nice dio too.

Shar Dipree
Fine MiG-29! 👍👍👍👍

Hang Li
Many thanks, Mirko, Finn, Michael ans Shar! I bought some sakura brush pens just for the exhaust nozzles. They are quite easy to use.

44 Ben44
Nice Mig 👍

Vincent
Beautiful! Great display also🙂

Nicolas
I like the result very much. 👍

Ekki
Beautiful result.

Cristian A
Excellent build and very nice presentation! congrats

Neuling
Same as Cristian!

Hang Li
Thank you Christia, Neuling, Ekki, Nicolas, Vincent and Ben for your support.

Tim
NIce

Villiers de Vos
Steady progress. Did you light the stern?

Thomas Wirsching
Great job so far! I would love to get an explanation about how to do these LED lighting in detail as I have no idea about this.

Hang Li
Thanks Tim, Villiers, and Thomas. I did put a led for the trolled sonar bay back at the stern. It is apparently not bright enough to be really visible. Probably not noticeable after finished.

I prefer to use Led tape light as it has build in resistors so I don't need do calculation to figure out the resistor value. Once that is sorted, what left is just connect the led unit with a battery and a switch. I think it is better to ask a trained electrician as the circiut I built don't last long and I don't really know why.

Michael Kohl
I expect modelling of the highest quality from your bench. So far I am not disappointed. 🙂
Keep it up.

Treehugger
Hm, how long did it take to make the nice looking ocean surface? It certainly looks like a fun project.
I wish I knew how to make such ocean surfaces, as it really seem to complete a model with such a diorama.

I am no expert on led's but my impression is that one has to be careful that the voltage to the led's is controlled to specs, so they don't burn out shortly after and end up being un-repairable inside the model. Also, something about connecting led's in parallel, pattern iirc, to avoid one dead led blacking out all the rest of the leds in a serial connection, iirc.

Thomas Wirsching
Your build is already mindblowing; 漂亮]!

Tim
Your sea base is looking really nice.

Hang Li
Thanks Treehugger, THomas and Tim.
As for the sea base, you can check a YouTube channel called ''studio blue ocean'', I basically followed his videos. And treehugger did a pretty good summary for LEDs. The voltages is very important and it is always needed to put some resistors in series to potect the LEDs. The size of the resistors can be calculated with ohms' law. There are small circuit boards for LEDs which can be used to make everything easier.

Rui S
Impressive work 👍

Villiers de Vos
Fantastic work with all the photoetch parts. Your attention to detail shows.

Thomas Wirsching
Getting better and better; can you please show us a detail picture from the inside of the hangar? Did you build this from scratch?

Hang Li
Thanks, Rui and Villiers. I just masked the hangar as I am going to paint the outside. I will get better hangar photos once finish. The trumpster kit comes with the hangar and the ceiling is in good detail (I only add LEDs to the ceiling). Only the walls need additional work to add details, like handrails, supports etc.

Ingmar Stöhr
Wow! Fantastic detail work and great job on the weathering and the base!

Gary Victory
Really nice work Hang. Looking like a great build.

Villiers de Vos
Fantastic finish.

Ingmar Stöhr
@Hang Li: For the 'oil canning' effect. Did you have accurate plans for the frame spacing or how did you come up with the pattern you used? I have to say that is look really convincing after some more weathering effects are applied on top.

Hang Li
thanks Ingmar, Gary and Villiers. As for the 'oil canning' effect, I found some photos which are somewhat visible for this effect as reference for the pattern and I have to simplifie the pattern to make it practical. So it is not quite accurate. I got some pre-cutted masking paper in 1mm, 2mm, and 3mm and I just picked one that I believe is most suitable.

Ingmar Stöhr
Thank you for the explanation! It looks convincing to me! Keep up the great work!

Michael Kohl
That oil can effect worked really great.

Miguel Vaquero
Amazing build!! Did you use resin for the sea base? If so, how did you manage to make that rough sea surface? It looks amazing

Jörg Schäfer
Great job. 👍

Thomas Wirsching
astonishing build and breathtaking seascape. Hats off to your talent!

Guy Rump
Looking great, following. 👍

Ingmar Stöhr
Looking really convincing so far!

Hang Li
Thanks, everyone. As for the material used for the sea base, I normally use high-density insulation foam (blue sheet from my early photos) and clay. I think many people build diorama this way. I believe there are more sophisticated methods nowadays. I saw someone using CFD modeling to simulate the wave pattern and 3D printing the entiry sea base in Chinese formus.

Ingmar Stöhr
I tried the 3D printing method once, but only for something like 10x10cm, as that is the maximum for my printer and I did not see how I could glue several pieces together without visible seam. The seascape was generated in Blender and I have to say it looked stunning! BUT I feel a lot of the final effect and realism comes from painting and here you are doing a superb job! I will definitely take your work as my inspiration for my next take on displaying water!

Michael Kohl
Absolutely convincing seascape and wake!

Hang Li
Thank you all for your continoues supports, I have fibalky finished this project. The 1/350 does require a lot more works and for my next project I think I will try somethng I havent build before, cheers