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Article by Mike Grant |
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This must be a huge plane in real
life, I have a 1/72 Italeri kit and it dwarfs my Fujimi MiG-29 to the same
scale! This particular model is the Academy 1/48 kit, I added the Cutting
Edge cockpit set which has a beautiful resin seat. I should have done a
dry run first though, because after assembling and painting the whole unit, the
two horizontal fuselage halves wouldn't go together... I had to saw and file a
considerable amount of resin from the bottom of the cockpit 'tub' before the
fuselage would fit together. I also added quite a bit of detail to the
undercarriage using the Verlinden 'Lock-On' book which is great reference.
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I used Cutting Edge's decals too,
but when I came to paint the model using ModelMaster's 'Flanker' blues I decided
they were much too dark. They're probably correct matched to the full-size
plane but I guess scale colour plays a part, because the photos in the Verlinden
book show much less contrast between the 3 shades than the bottled paint. I
ended up mixing the 3 colours myself and toning everything down with a final
overspray of light blue.