Mig Project II part B

Welcome back to the Phantom F4 Sundowner build.

I didn't keep up pictures of the detailed build. The kit went together really well; not like the Spads. 

Got the pilots in and seated. And I did a quick flat black around the cockpit before masking off or the painting.

If you look closely at the second pic you can see a wing of another model I was test painting for panel lines. There's pre-shading and pin washes, and post shading, dry brushing, and all permutations of methods. I was testing out what I thought I could do.

Man I think the pilots look really good. Too bad nobody is going to see them once it's all finished. Hope I don't screw it up. Masking them off is next. 

A quick look at the underside. For this mission extra fuel tanks are not required. Also we're only going to load the AIM-9D Sidewinders. The wingman (assumed - not built) has a pulse radar limited to search mode which negates the use of Sparrow missiles.

I'll mention here (if you haven't guessed already) I'm basing this off of the Mig kill by Lt Weigand and Lt Freckleton's 3/6/1972 in "Old Nick Two-Zero-One." Based on not a real historical, museum piece build. I'm not that good. 

So here it is all ready to start painting:

...with my new airbrush!!! Got me a compressor and everything!!!!

  So this is my real first time using an airbrush. We'll see how it goes in the next post.

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Mig Project Part II

This is really the part I was wanting to get to. Where the Mig is pretty simple, not many details or decals, this part is going to be a lot of detail fun.

I've been eying this model for a long time. I considered it a little pricey for a 1/72 model but I finally said screw it I'm getting it.
Then it shows up like this!!!!

WTH?!!! Let's see if I've wasted money on this.....

Nope. All pieces still in tact. That's a good thing. Saves me a call to FedEx that I really didn't want to make.

So let's lay it all out and see what we got.

Actually the model is not all I got. I also got Mig Killer decals (you guess where I'm going with this project?) and of course, NO PILOTS!!!! So I went back on the hunt for 1/72 pilots. Luckily modern pilots are slightly easier to find than WW I pilots. Found some from JP Productions that I was able to get online from a shop in Australia. I seem to find good stuff from Australian shops. What's the deal with that?

So let's start with the pilots and cockpit....

Test fit...

All looks good. Time to start painting.

The observer had his visor up so I needed to add a little green stuff and a little sculpting to get his visor down. This is going to be a Sundowner and to make it look cool I'm going to theme the helmets.

Turned out pretty good.









Next to finish out the cockpit detail.

and to put them in their seats.

I'm a little behind on posting; missed the month of May. So my next post should be coming up fairly quickly.

Next time we'll be working on the plane build and see what they look like ready for flight.

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