| #11 -Aircraft of the Aces Discuss **** DONE: 1/48 Yak-1b Lilya Litviak, the VVS - Aircraft of the Aces GB. in the Group Builds forums; Nice recovery Bill. It's happed to all of us. The first Group Build I was in I put yellow stripes ... |
Nice recovery Bill. It's happed to all of us. The first Group Build I was in I put yellow stripes on the wing leading edge of a Spit. Beautiful masking job. Turned out great. Very proud of myself. Then found that the yellow stripes were put on after the Battle of Britain. Oh well. More masking and paint and all was well.
With the scoop out of the way I been cleaning up some of the gaps. Then the PE flaps pockets starting coming apart, and that was more than I could deal with. So I ripped them out and put in the resin ones that came with the set I got. Now I am filling in them gaps. Meanwhile I did the clearance lights on the wing tips. Getting a bit closer.
Learning more!
Planes are so simple....... damned helicopter builds!
Looking good Bill.
Doin' great Bill.
The resin parts look great and are one hell of a lot easier to deal with than PE. Well done.
Good progress Bill
Cheers
Peter
nice work Bill
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
"Winston Churchill"
Looking good.
Looking good Bill.
Thanks guys.................
And....... finally, color!
My question is this..... is the inside of the wheels wells and inside the flap wells the same color???? the gear legs??? tail wheel?? as the underside of the plane?
Plus I am now confused as to the color codes for the camo....... Helllllp.
Planes are so simple....... damned helicopter builds!
No expert on russian colours Bill so can't help.....looking at that first coat of paint it looks like all your construction has come together nicely!!
I'll echo that. Hopefully Wojtek can help with the colours.
The camo scheme was a quite typical for the period of the Great Patriotic War ( the Summer 1943) . It consisted of AMT-6/A-26M Black ( Tamiya XF-1, Testors 1749) but the colour should be of a little bit of the grey tonality, AMT-4/A-24M Green ( Testors 1715/1713, Gunze H58/H303) at top surfaces. And the AMT-7/A-28M Blue ( Testors 2123 ) on undersides. Samples of these colours in the first set below.
But I would suggest using those of the second sample set with their tonalities in below.
Last edited by Wurger; 10-04-2011 at 04:19 PM.
As far as these landing gear legs, wheel bays and flaps colours are concerned.... there is a couple of different opinions. One of them says these parts were painted with light blue-grey or light grey colour. The second one indicates the FS25466 paint or FS25550 or FS35250 ones. I think it was the same colour used for the cockpit interior painting. Therefore if the cockpit was of light grey these areas mentioned above were of light grey too. If the cockpit interior was of the light blue these parts were of the same one.
Last edited by Wurger; 10-04-2011 at 05:42 PM.
Thanks Wurger, makes things just a little simpler.
You guys always come thru somehow.
Bill
Planes are so simple....... damned helicopter builds!
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