MiG-21R-Eduard 12/6 - Adding the last 2% = DONE!

[wing_nut]

One thing or another has kept me away from the bench. Managed to find little snippets of time to get this far. Right color or not is not the case here. Matching the color PE was paramount in my mind. I am pretty happy with the match. It was achieved with 3 Tamiya colors instead of the 2 color Gunze recipe since I don't have a local source for Gunze paint. I bought a resin cockpit upgrade forgetting that had the ProfiPack kit but it's nice anyway since it gave me more options on how the get the pit together.

A couple of cockpit tub picks, the seat all done up... sadly no stencils of the seat in the kit or the resin cockpit... and finally a quick mock up.

[dupes]

Niiiiiiiice! Love me a good Fishbed.

Curious - what was the Tamiya mix to make Sov cockpit green?

[wing_nut]

I looked up the 2 colors, Gunze Sangyo H25 - Sky Blue and H46 - Emerald Green that appears to be a popular mix and tried to find matches for them in the countless jars of paint is have. After trying every blue and green I thought the blue simply needed to be very bright.

I ended up lighting some clear X4 Clear Blue, with XF2 Flat White. The right green to add ended up being XF4 Yellow Green. Since the bulk of the mix is the clear blue the color underneath also played a part. In this case the blue from the A4 tail was perfect.

[Leon]

Nice work on the pit Marc!

[wbill76]

Got to hand it to the Soviets for coming up with an interesting cockpit decor! Looking good Marc.

[Deleted]

Looking pretty good Marc. Going to have to keep an eye out for this build.

[TRM]

Okay then!! Wow, a nice looking office right there Marc!!

[Tojo72]

Very nice,that seat looks real good Marc

[wing_nut]

Thanks guys.

Bill, I guess interesting is as good a word as any to describe the awful blue.

[wouter]

Wow Marc, this one starts of nicely...what a great cockpit...and that chair Amazing chap!

Cheers

[wing_nut]

Wouter my friend so sorry I missed your post. Thank you sir.



Plugging away at the MiG.



I was worried about damaging the sharp tip during the build so I cut the cone in the intake off the mounting ring since it would not fit once the fuselage was closed up. For the nose weight I added a few BB's then filled the space with tungsten powder, alternating until it was full. A few drops of CA seals it all. Came in at just over 1/2 oz.















After attaching the ring at the front of the fuselage the inside was sanded to get a nice sharp edge but the was a small step on the outside that was sanded down smooth. A double thick strip of tape to guide a JLC saw blade around to scribe the line.











A few fit issues that were easily corrected with some sheet plastic. I think the fuselage was from the resin cockpit tub. No explanation for the one when the wings are put in place or the weird one by a front fuselage filler part.



















I cut the groove deeper for the PE wing fence with a piece of a JLC saw blade. A perfect fit and a stringer bond with some CA.











Cockpit done and the wings go on tonight.

[wbill76]

Making good strides on this one Marc. Got to love the simplicity of the gap solution with the sheet styrene even if it is a head-scratcher as to the origins.

[Deleted]

This is looking great.

[wing_nut]

Thanks fella. Someone else told me he had that same little weird one one the nose. Glad it wasn't something I did for a chnage

[JimD]

Wait...how'd I miss this? I've heard nothing but good about the Eduard kits. Kinda surprised to see the fit issues...not that they are bad enough to be deal breakers.

Looking great so far. Any ideas on scheme yet?

[wing_nut]

Hey brotha Jim. No matter how ya missed as long as ya found it in the end.

My plan has been this Cuban bird.

[wing_nut]

The up side to waking up a 4 on a Sunday morning... added bench time. Air frame was finally to the point of getting it "black" with Mr. Finishing Surfacer black primer. This morning was time for some Star Trek TNG and getting the basing down in prep for the color coats. Mixed a gray that works and got the underside based and painted. Gotta love the fast drying Tamiya paint. get the initial "wet" off with a hair dryer, watch and episode of TNG and ready for masking. Forgot to snap a pic of the gray before masking. Upper surface done with a Tru-Color mix of flat light blue and big sky blue

[Leon]

WOW.....Nice work there Marc!

[JimD]

I'm quite fond of that scheme. Love to see black basing in action. Keep the updates coming.

[wing_nut]

Thanks Leon.

Thanks Jim. Since taking those photos I got the blue down. Pretty please with the outcome.

[wbill76]

Nice to see you have your priorities in order for a Sunday Marc! Painting + TNG + hairdryer wins every time.

[wing_nut]

Wish I could start every day that way. Just not so early

[Deleted]

This is looking pretty good and coming along great.

[M1Carbine]

Marc - looks fantastic. the pit looks insane! well done.

Bob

[doogsatx/]

Yay black basing!

[deafpanzer]

Looking forward to see the result... don't keep us hanging!

[JimD]

Pics. Pics. Pics

[wing_nut]

Thanks fellas.

Nov 23, 2015 18:15:48 GMT -5 JimD said:

Pics. Pics. Pics

Soon. Soon. Soon.

[wing_nut]

It looks like I forgot top mask between the blu tack worms but I filled it in with liquid frisket. WOW did that make it super easy. Problem was that it sticks tot he blu tack and it would have take forever to separate the 2 and I'll bet I never would have gotten it all. So all that blu tack is not in the garbage. When I get into all the Spitfires I recently bought that will get expensive. To bad cuz as I said... crazy easy.

Once again the effect of the black basing is there but very hard to see for 2 reasons. The pictures being 1 of them. The other is that brain process that when you are laying down thin coats of paint and get it to the point you say it looks right.... you've gone to far. Gotta work on that. The effect is there though.





The bottom was taped.

[doogsatx/]

Yeah with black basing you very much have to train your brain to rein it in a bit.

I would also submit, with this particular scheme, tonal crush is in play. doogsmodels.com/2014/10/01/tonal-crush/