Scale aviation modeller international

The cockpit

benefitted from

some Eduard pre-

coloured etch.....

...where Deluxe Materials Perfect

Plastic Putty was very useful

....and was suitably painted and detailed

There were a few gaps to fill on the undersides..... ....but less on the upper surfaces....

“FOR THIS BUILD I’M USING HATAKA ORANGE LINE

COLOURS, AND IN PARTICULAR ELEMENTS FROM THEIR LATE

WORLD WAR II SOVIET AIR FORCE PAINT SET HTK-CS20”

KIT DETAILS

MANUFACTURER: EDUARD

SCALE: 1:72

KIT TYPE: PLASTIC INJECTION MOULDED

WITH ETCH AND RESIN PARTS

KIT NUMBER: 7066

strips of plastic sheet to fill a huge

gap near the engine. There are

also some sink marks that needed

to be filled. The windshield also

needs some putty to fill some

minor gaps, and here I used

Deluxe Materials Perfect Plastic

Putty. After a quick tidy up here

and there, I was ready to paint.

For this build, I’m using

Hataka Orange Line colours, and

in particular elements from their

Late World War II Soviet Air Force

Paint Set HTK-CS20, and I must

confess that I really like them!

I began with the lighter shades,

and first I applied a coat of AMT-7

Grey-Blue on the undersides, and

once dry I used a little White to start

the initial weather effects. Then I

added a little thinned White to some

of the panel lines to simulate worn

paint, applied in the direction of

the airflow. The idea was to create

different shades of the original

colour. Once dry I applied another

coat of the Grey-Blue with just a

touch of Black, to simulate shadows.

With the undersides painted, it

was time for the upper surface

camouflage, and I began with a coat

of AMT-11 Blue-Grey, followed by

the same weathering techniques

that I had used on the undersides.

When this was dry I added AMT-

12 Dark Green as the disruptive

camouflage colour, and once dry,

this too was suitably weathered. The

nose section was then masked off

and painted with C-103 Traffic Red

Once dry, the model was given

a coat of Hataka Gloss Varnish

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