MiG-23MLA 'Flogger-G' (Clearprop, 1:72)

Started by Sebastijan Videc · 61 · 1 year ago
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    Spiros Pendedekas said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Giving you challenges but looking awesome so far, my friend @inflames!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Definitely starts to look like a Flogger, Sebastijan @inflames
    Some challenges but you will definitely tackle those.

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    Sebastijan Videc said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    I almost have trouble believing I managed to bring this build to this stage. With all the fitting issues, I was losing my mojo big time and was seriously thinking of just quitting it a few time. But I persevered and here we are! She's primered up with a coat of Mr.Surfacer and it is funny how all you need is just a coat of grey paint and all the troubles with the build so far, just sort of disappear! Anyhow, fun stuff ahead and I hope modelling gods will grant me troublesome build ahead.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Glad you continued with this build, Sebastijan @inflames
    She looks great being primed.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Looks really nice and homogenous, my friend @inflames!

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    George R Blair Jr said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Now comes the fun part, Sebastijan @inflames: Painting the camo and adding the decals.

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    Sebastijan Videc said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Thanks guys, indeed, the fun part of the build is just around the corner!

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    Sebastijan Videc said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Clearprop provided a plentitude of really nice camouflage schemes with this kit - a Soviet 4-tone scheme, a Czech and Czechoslovak one as well as East German one... And in other boxings attractive North Korean and Cuban ones amongst others. I was kind of on the edge of choosing between Soviet and Czech ones and decided I might do Czech MF sometime in the future and so I went with the Soviet option of "white bordered 31" from the 821st IAP. The camo was free hand painted using my trusty old Harder & Steenbeck Airbrush Evolution Silverline with MR. Paint lacquers as usual!

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Fantastic painting results so far, my friend @inflames! What a charming camo!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    A very nice camouflage scheme indeed and beautifully applied, Sebastijan @inflames

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    George R Blair Jr said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Well done on the complex camo, Sebastijan (@inflames), especially freehand on a 1/72 model.

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    Sebastijan Videc said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Thanks Spiros, John and George! Battling through hundreds of stencils now 🙂

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    George R Blair Jr said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Stencils must be really fun in 1/72, Sebastijan (@inflames). They are bad enough in 1/48.

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    Sebastijan Videc said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Decals time! Decals for this kit were printed by Decograph. The printing is great, vibrant opaque colours, no offset noticed and the resolution is also high - the tiny stencils are almost readable. The carrier film is really thin which is good and bad - when they go down they just become one with the surface without the need for decal softening solutions. The bad side is, that they have a nasty tendency to fold on themselves. It is not a big problem with the larger decals like bort numbers and stars, but applying stencils was quite a challenging job and I have to admit, there are several missing because of that. I also experienced a weird thing with a few of them - they wouldn't release from the backing paper completely - they would cling to the paper at one tiny point and trying to move them around, just stretched the decal film like it was made out of rubber but to no avail. Luckily there was just few decals that were causing me such problems and after a couple hundred or so, I guess I can be excused missing a few 😀




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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Decals like great, Sebastijan @inflames
    Hard to tell which stencils are missing, I would leave it this way.