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Thanks my friend @johnb! Great start! Yes, the back plate needs to be painted cockpit color, save the two window glasses.
Been absent from this site for a few days so I just stumbled upon this mini Shturmovik GB. Very impressive works so far and a good reference for anyone who has this plane kit on the stash! I’ll be following along your updates, even more since I have the single seater AM kit for decades in the box
Great progress, Spiros (@fiveten) and John (@johnb). I need to get moving or I will be left in the dust. Wings look great.
Thanks @holzhamer! Looking forward to yours!
Thanks @gblair!
@holzhamer, thanks, Pedro. Great to have you onboard this topic.
@gblair, thank you, George. You and your kit will not be left in the dust. Once done with the B17, you can go full steam ahead.
@johnb nice start!
Coarse sanding...
Nice first round, Spiros @fiveten Always impressed by the large wing area this aircraft had.
@inflames, thanks, Sebastijan
Did a first paint on the interior, a silver greyish color.
I wouldn't take these restored aircraft as a definite reference - lots of them have wrong paint and use whatever's at hand during the restoration unfortunately. Reference photos show anything between that blueish grey and silver grey like you used. I guess this depends which factory built the given batch of Il-2s.
Oh and I was lucky enough to actually see and photograph a real Il-2M a couple of years ago in Russia.
Hard to imagine they actually restored it to flying condition from this:
@inflames, it must have been amazing to see this aircraft in flying condition, Sebastijan. Especially if you know where it originated from. Those people did an amazing job.
About the colors, I agree with you. Restored aircraft are not perfect references. Will do a bit more digging, but I think George @gblair was right about the silver grey color being listed in the regulations.
Silver gray looks good, my friend @johnb! Thanks for the info, my friend @inflames!
@johnb
I did some online research about the interior colours of the IL-2 some time ago and ended up buying AK real colours A-14 Interior Steel Grey. It seems a fairly good match for that bluish grey that many references point to be the most commonly used in the Shturmovik. But as is the case in many other aircraft, I doubt all the cockpit was painted uniformly with this colour. Some fellow iModelers out there may have more serious info on this 😉
@holzhamer, thanks for this valuable information, Pedro.
