Looking forward to seeing how it turns out, George...I'm sure it'll be as good as your others.

George, neat idea, with photographic proof, no less. The nitpickers will have a spasm.
Apparently it flies, unlike the photos you see of the former SovBlock stuff mouldering away in the weeds in farflung parts of the globe. Having grown up during the RED MENACE, it's kinda sad.

Here are a few more work in progress images of my 1/48 Academy MiG-29UB. I just finished painting the Wolfpack K-36D ejection seats, but will wait to install them later. I'll post photos of those at a later date as well. In the meantime, I've been working on the fuselage. I have to say that everything probably fits pretty well, but for some reason I couldn't get things to align properly. Not sure if it's the kit or me. Anyway, I used a bit of Tamiya polyester putty to fix my mistakes. I decided to give it a second, thin coat of putty after the first application as I found a few microscopic pin holes after carefully sanding the areas with 320 grit Tamiya sandpaper. All the panel lines will be re-scribed and rivets added later. 8000 grit will be used for the final sanding/polishing phase since this model will have partially natural metal finish.

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Here's a sample of some tests I'm conducting on a POS Zhengfendu Su-27 for a MiG-29 UB I'm building. I used Alclad metallics, Mr Paint, Vallejo acrylics, and Ammo of Mig washes to simulate a Mig of the Azerbaijan AF stripped of its paint. I used Mr Paint Lemon yellow for the primer effects. However, it is a lacquer based paint so you can't used the hairspray technique for wearing and chipping the paint. My solution to that was to mix my own using Vallejo acrylics. I used German yellow, yellow, white and yellow green. The match is almost perfect and will work well for this model since the paint is so uneven and subjected to weather, use, and paint stripper. I used Alclad transparent yellow over Aluminum to simulate the treatment applied to some panels.

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Yes, Mr Paint is a brand from Slovenia. Not to be confused with Mr Color, a Japanese brand. These are excellent paints. They're super thin and cover extremely well. http://mrpaint.sk
The actual color name is Lemon Gray.

My pleasure, Bernard. I just found out about them recently. I bought 5 or 6 colors intially and now I'm hooked. I ordered 8 more!

I haven't posted anything in a while, but here's an addition to my previous MiG-29UB posts. I re-scribed all the panel lines, polished the plastic about 900 times, and finally got down to adding the first coat of paint. I tried something different this time and I decided that I wouldn't put down a primer coat. I used AK Interactive Xtreme Metal Aluminum for the first coat. I wanted some of the imperfections of the polishing to show through as this will be a heavily distressed, airframe stripped of its paint. Some panels will be painted with various metallic shades including stainless steel, dark aluminum, steel, white aluminum and dull aluminum to make it a bit more interesting. The end result will hopefully look like the test I previously posted.

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