Nyhetsflöde

Thomas Kolb
While waiting for some paints to arrive in the mail to continue my MiG-23 build project, I decided to do a very quick build of the Eduard L-39 in my stash. This kit is labeled as a "weekend" build, which might be a bit optimistic for me, but should still be a quick progress.

Clement
Great job on that cockpit.
Following with interest.

Łukasz Gliński
Me 2 👍 That cockpit is astonishing 😮

Harry Eder
Great start! I'll watching 3

Clement
Do you already have a plan for the shades you're going to use? I found the L-39 classic camouflage very hard to get right. I hope you'll have more luck with it.

Mr D
Looking good, cockpit green is 👍 nice.
Coming on good 👌

Łukasz Gliński
@Clement: I think I've seen these colours released lately by Mr.Paiint

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat here.

Ekki
Watching too.

Clement
Thanks @Łukasz, well spotted!

MRP-010 Brown Green ČSN 2250
MRP-013 Khaki ČSN 5450
MRP-027 Light Pastel Grey ČSN 1010

For those interested

Nicolas
Joining

Thomas Kolb
For the Hungarian standard camo, MRP has released an entire set, consisting of MRP-351 Brown, MRP-352 Dark Green and MRP-353 Light Blue.

Thomas Kolb
Yesterday I spent some time comparing the hue and tint of the MRP paints with my own mix of Tamiya acrylics (as described in photo 26 above), and found them to be absolutely identical. I also found the MRP paints much too smelly and aggressive and hard to adjust if you want to blend in slightly varying tones in panels etc. The Tamiyas can furthermore be used for extremely diluted thin filter applications, while the MRP are block solid.

Clement
Well done on those paints!
I agree with you, Tamiya paints spray great and don't smell nearly as nasty as MRP's.

Cuajete
I was missing this one.
Well done so far, Thomas! 👍

J35J
Great progress!👍🏻

Łukasz Gliński
I see you mixed too much of this colour and used it on the background 😋
Lovely preshading, sth I don't have enough patience for

Rui S
Great Paintjob. Looking good 👍

Bohrmann
50 shades of green😉. Look very very good to me.. Well done.

Adam
Thank you very much! I tried my best and to obtain this shade I used Tamiya nato green and oil dot filter 😉

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Danumurthi Mahendra
Great progress. What do you think about the figure detail and posture?

Łukasz Gliński
Very nice build and photos 👍

Björn Leichsenring
It's nice that you like it

Dieter Bihlmaier
Looks fantastic! (despite the small scale)

Matti Thomaes
I honestly thought that the first picture was the real thing, great work on the build and the photography

Ben M
Looks great! Very nice weathering and photography.

Danumurthi Mahendra
Must be huge I bet!

gorby
Very nice work!

Robert Podkoński
Cool stuff! Is is made from scratch? The wings look like taken from MiG-15....

Danumurthi Mahendra
Out of the ordinary!! Wow

gorby
WOW fantastic!

Fergs
Where can I find instructions sheet for this kit

Michael Kohl
Most impressive stuff. Each and every model would have deserved an album of its own. Very good photography too.

gorby
WOW! The ships are particularly stunning. I agree with Michael, they each deserve their own album.

Rui S
Excellent work allround 👍

Tom B.
Some absolutely gorgeous stuff there 👍

Treehugger
Nice! 🙂
Question: Are you selective about which scale model kit to build, and do you place limits on yourself? For example, setting a limit to how much you want to clean up or fix a flawed scale model kit.

Danumurthi Mahendra
Very impressive work

Harald Besold
Starts promising! Nice details. 👍

Harry Eder
Great start! I´ll take a seat 🙂

Daniel Mysak
Nice start👍. Looking forward to your build. I´am curious to see the pros and cons of the kit.

Alec K
What! No rotor blades? 😂. I am in, nice detailing as always 👍

Hajo Lippke
Great, another Ronan-project!

Oleg Bogolei
I didn't dare to cut main weels bays, I just swore loudly at Trumpeter)
And there are some other remakes need to be done to make "A' from this model...

Maciej Bellos
I am in too. Source of inspiration this build will be 😄

Łukasz Gliński
Been waiting for this 👍

Patrick Hagelstein
Oh yes! A combo of Ronan and Intruder: obligatory to follow! 🙂

Ronan
Many thanks , mates 😉
For those who wish to assemble this model, it will be necessary to plan a little surgery on the main landing gear bays.
Other than that, I will say that the kit is better than Italeri or Fujimi but that's just my opinion. The level of detail is much higher than the other two

Ronan
Maybe a little more information about the different versions of A-6 :
tailspintopics.blogs..-vs-6e-intruder.html

Sergej I
AWESOME! 👍

Maciej Bellos
Oh WOW!

Juergen Klinglhuber
Jaw dropping detailing -as usally! All looks so easy and still perfectly clean and we all know how hard this is (especially in 72) - great job!

Ronan
Many thanks,
For the moment, I don't find any difficulty in building this kit.
I only used putty in the air intakes, the fitting is quite good

Skyhiker
Another straight out of the box build I see. 😉

Bas Tonn
Great, can't wait for more pics

Ronan
Many thanks,
The build keeps on quietly 😉

Alec K
Nice progress, the cockpit looks amazing 👍

Ronan
Thanks Alek 😉

Dearest readers,
For those who would like to build this model but are not happy about having to open the gear hatches, you should know that these famous hatches can be closed on the ground. Yesterday, I found a photo which attests to the thing in the book "lock on" by Verlinden. These hatches are closed manually by the ground mechanics during a prolonged stop of the plane, a sort of storage, this avoids FOD. Of course, this is very rare, but nevertheless it is possible. Also, it's up to you 😉

Oliver Zwiener
Take a seat

Patrick Hagelstein
Thanks for the encouragement Ronan! Let's have a look at references then. ☺️👍🏼

Michael Kohl
Following

Alec K
It's looking excellent 👍

Eric Duval
Joli travail 🙂

Ronan
Merci camarade 😊

Ronan
😉

Skyhiker
These planes always remind me of giant bugs for some reason.

Ronan
I think it looks like a tapdole 😉

Bernd Grün
Nice progress, Ronan! 👌 Looking for the final result.

Ronan
Thanks Bernd, i hope to finish it very soon 😉

Skyhiker
A tadpole I can see. But at least it's not a FROG or you would have your work cut out for you. 😉

Micky
Love the Intruder Ronan. Nice cockpit and build so far!!

Palo M
Beautiful work so far, especially love the paint scheme with tan nose - that's what I'd like to build as well. I found some pictures with the "NE" on tail in the same paint scheme, so hope to avoid aftermarket decals. Just got the same kit, so have to follow this thread 🙂

Is the "Hobbyboss" in the album title a joke or a mistake?