Thanks my friend @johnb!
Indeed, yours is the single seater, totally missed it due to my excitement... 🙂
Yes, Revell reboxed the single seater.

Great to have you on board, George @gblair
Your expertise and modelling skills will be very helpful to get the most out of it.

Thanks to Spiros (@fiveten) and John (@johnb) for letting me join them in this combo build. I will have a hard time keeping up with these two prolific builders, but I will give it a shot. I am trying to finish my B-17F build, but I was able to gather some stuff together and do a little research for the IL-2.

I will be building the original Accurate Miniatures IL-2m3. I bought this kit on consignment from my local hobby shop. It looks like everything is there, so I have my fingers crossed. I found a really interesting set of decals in my stash for this airplane. I also dug out my copy of IL-2 In Action for a little info on the plane.

The plane I chose meshes nicely between the decals and the reference. I want to build an IL-2m3 that was used as a night intruder in 1949 by Yugoslavia. It was originally painted in standard Soviet colors, but was over-sprayed with black. The cool part was that the black wasn't very permanent, so the previous camo and markings showed through the faded and worn black. I think it might be fun to try to replicate this.



OK. That's it for now, over and out.

Thanks, John (@johnb). I did a little research into colors for this plane, especially the interior. As you might expect, the Soviets were scrambling during the early years of the war trying to survive. They had standard camouflage patterns for planes, as well as standard colors, but there are many instances where they used whatever they could get. The plane I chose was a late-war plane and it appears that they actually used standard colors and patterns. The standard colors in this case are AMT1 (Light Brown), AMT4 (Green), AMT12 (Dark Gray), and AMT7 (Light Blue). There will be a faded black or dark gray coat over the standard colors, but black is usually easier to duplicate.

The bigger problem was the interior color. A short trip through the internet wasn't very helpful. The interior color was reported to be light gray, blue gray, silver gray, pale green, or natural metal, all depending on the source. As near as I can tell, the color listed in the regulations was silver gray.

My preferred paints are AK Real Colors, so I checked their list of colors and found all of the required colors in their lineup, including A14 Silver Gray for the interior. My biggest surprise of the day was when I went to my local hobby store and found they had all of the needed colors in stock. Yeah.

Great combo idea John@johnb) and Spiros@fiveten!

The Revell instructions look far superior to AM’s and the online buzz critics give both toolings above average marks in the accuracy dept.

I also have that very AM Stormvik kit that George has so I will be following along taking notes. Have fun guys!

Hmmm... I have an even more rare iteration of this kit - Eduard's Il-2M - the fuselage of the Il-2M3 with the wings of the Il-2, to make the early 2-seater. It's been in the box o'doom for a looonnnnnngggg time.

@tcinla, would be nice to see that one build as well, Tom.

Looking forward to see your entry, our friend @tcinla! Will be reeeeeeealy nice to see the Eduard "version" build!