It is warm here... Probably you guys living closer to the equator will laugh about the Danish "heatwave" of 28C, but it will feels warm. I am used to much higher summer temperatures, but I think after many years spent here I got used to the northern climate. Also, our living room looks southwestern direction over the backyard of the apartment building, and most of it is covered by concrete blocks. It works like a chimney, the hot, humid air is channeled directly into our living room. My desk is right next to the window... So, no modelling for this week, next week will be off with family. Maybe after that I get time and proper weather.

That is not a real nice condition, Csaba @pikofix
Not very usual for Danmark.
To me, in the Netherlands, temperatures above 25 degrees start to feel uncomfortable.
Just too much humidity in combination with hot air.

Love your fading and "livening up" techniques on the yellow, my friend @pikofix!
Yellow is one of the most challenging colors for me: difficult in everything!
Your results are super here, the rudder being a lot to my liking: even if "left as is", it is looking great.

I am still in awe of your masking and painting, Csaba (@pikofix). I am not sure if you have tried this, but when I use artist oils I usually brush some clean, odorless turpenoid or similar before I add the oils. This helps the blending and keeps the paint from absorbing into the paintwork.

3 weeks without update… I have many reasons, kids started to sleep terribly, work is draining my mental energy, Erik started a SAS group build here on iModeler and that got my attention. Anyway, I made most of the oil fading, it dried, but I have to go back and do repairs with my airbrush on one of the wings. I noticed tiny small dots all over the surface, probably an overspray when I painted the black details. I am still collecting energy for that step, but in the meanwhile I finalized the decal design. The lower wings had the same size and style of the registration as on the fuselage, but different distance between the characters. I did a few measurements in Inkscape on the reference photo showing the lower side of the plane, and calculated the 1:48 scale dimensions.

The final test was “very sophisticated”, I taped the test print onto the wing, zoomed the reference photo on my display to match the size of the 1:48 model, held up the half assembled Po-2 in the same angle and compared the two. 🙂 Luckily, my test print matched the reference photo perfectly. Inkscape is my new favorite modeling tool!

Good to see you restarted on this one Csaba @pikofix
Never used Inkscape, but like Eik said, great to have new useful tools available.

Glad to see you working on this again, Csaba (@pikofix). I have never heard of Inkscape, but it looks interesting.