Zvezda 1/48 Yak-130 of Myanmar Air Force

Started by Dmitry Stropalov · 23 · 5 years ago
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    Louis Gardner said 5 years, 3 months ago:

    This is some amazing workmanship. The "det chord" under the canopy looks very good indeed. The glass is crystal clear.

    I'll be looking forward to seeing the paint next...

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    Greg Kittinger said 5 years, 3 months ago:

    Using you as a reference! I have a 1/72 version of this (think it's an Amodel kit). Excellent work in the cockpit, and all the other work to bring it all together is fantastic.

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    Dmitry Stropalov said 5 years, 3 months ago:

    Thank you, guys!

    @gkittinger Greg, please note – Amodel is producing a prototype version of Yak-130, and there may be differences between late production versions. Zvezda has new Yak-130 kit in 1/72 scale also.

    I've finished painting the camouflage, along with the small details like antennas. After that a gloss coat was applied. It's not visible on the photos, but unfortunately I need to re-paint intakes, because masking tape has left glue marks. Camo colors were mixed using Hataka lacquer paints. Light Blue is 1/2 mix of C284/C101 and dark blue color is 1/4 mix of C101/C255. These colors are hard ones. Especially the darker blue looks so different on different photos, so it's rather guessing, than an "accurate" representation. Also, radio transparent parts where painted using XF-24 color, rather than what was given in the instruction.




    For wheel discs it was easy – Tamiya XF-5 is enough green for this.

    There is a quest with landing gear legs color and insides of a wheel bay doors. Again, instruction gives some strange advises here, so I've done some research. Look on this photo:

    Inside color of the doors is white, as for entire wheel bay. But looks like legs has different parts painted in different colors. It's also could be seen on this photo:

    The "horizontal" arm on both nose and main legs are painted in some metallic grey color, so I've chosen XF-23 as a base color and a mix of dark grey and metallic black for that darker parts.

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    George R Blair Jr said 5 years, 3 months ago:

    Dmitry, I think your colors look good. I think the gloss of the colors change how they appear to us. The photo of Red 65 above has some subtle gray on the nose (and I assume elsewhere), that also changes our perception. This is a great looking model of an interesting subject. Looking forward to seeing it complete.

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    Dmitry Stropalov said 5 years, 3 months ago:

    Thanks George! Today was a productive day – I've applied all the decals (~80, mostly stencils). Decals are really of a good quality – on the photos you can see them without additional gloss coat, and it's hard to see the film already. Additionally, I did painting of two antennas.



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    Greg Kittinger said 5 years, 3 months ago:

    Looking great - almost to the end zone!

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    Josh Patterson said 5 years, 3 months ago:

    The Mitten is one seriously nice looking bit of kit. I wonder when we will start seeing them on the civil registry here in the states. (No doubt in my mind that if you went to Yakovlev with money they'd build you a demilled version.)

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    Dmitry Stropalov said 5 years, 3 months ago:

    Thank you everybody for following the build! The final photos – https://imodeler.com/2019/12/yak-130-of-myanmar-air-force-zvezda-1-48/