Anigrand Tu-22 and bonus models.
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This is the Tu-128 Fiddler kit(1/144).
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Completed the MiG-9, quick and easy and tried a few different paints to get the multi silver/aluminium panel air-frame look. Some are very subtle and don't photograph very well. Did like the effect that the ALCLAD Gold titanium on the engine exhaust nacelles gave.
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Beginning on the Tu-128 bonus kit. Glad it's only a 1/144 as its almost the size of a SR-71 otherwise!
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Coat of Black primer and added some air intake detail to the tail plane
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Trying out the black highlight on white primer under the aluminium final coat to see if it works. Had to beef up the main undercarriage to look a bit more like reality.
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Looks like the Metal Color isn't as translucent as I had hoped, or I put in on too thick ? Might try my ALCLAD range next time.
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Final panel wash and Decals to go. I like the Green nose-cone, it certainly makes a change.
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Almost at the end of the tu-128, need to attach the missiles canopy and a few more oil leaks.
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Final Decals and weathering on the Tu-128, I think will go with a dark grey panel wash next time instead of black.
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Finally get on to the main course of the kit the Tu-22 Blinder. The Anigrand kits are a bit simplistic in some of the details compared to some of the modern kits, but they go together without too much drama. My only fault was with the Tu-128 which had a difference in panel line detail between left and right wing and tailplanes. The panel wash helps to equalize them but the 128 is a 'bonus' kit I suppose, but I think the Tu-128 is a nice looking plane !
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The Tu-22 panels are all attached.
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Black primer for the dull aluminium panels and grey primer for the white panels that is part of the paint scheme.
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This model seems to be missing the engine nacelle separator at the exhaust that is on all the photos that I have seen of a Tu-22. Creating something out of some card and putty.
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Decided that the nacelles were too far apart as well, so time to bring the Dremel out!
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That looks a bit better.
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A coat of Vallejo Metal Color Dull Aluminium and a gloss clear coat.
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And then all the white panel enhancements, I added a couple extra, but then again, there is a lot of variation in which panels were painted white in the photos of real live Tu-22's. A few masking tape liftings to be corrected, I should have waited another day or so for the paint to dry some more I think.
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Pretty much all finished, just waiting on some ResKit wheels for the Tu-22. I also have to attach the missile with some mini-magnets, it worked pretty well with my Corsair.
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The whole Anigrand kit together, Tu-22, Tu-128 and MiG-9(with some more extreme weathering experiments to try and simulate a anodised aluminium look that these old planes on display seem to have acquired)
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The End.....
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The Reskit wheels have arrived and they are sooooo much better than the ones supplied with the kit, which are pretty feature-less. I must pay better attention to the angle of the undercarriage for future dual bogie undercarriage....
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Comentarii
26 30 June 2022, 07:40
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Awesome Blinder😬👍🏻, and nice to see another die-hard Anigrand kit builder!
20 November 2022, 22:58