**** FINISHED: 1/48 Polikarpov I-16 - Captured / Aircraft in Foreign Service GB

[Vic Balshaw]

Username: Vic Balshaw
First name: Vic
Category: Judge – Non competing
Scale: 1/48

Manufacturer: Eduard – Polikarpov I-16 Type 29

Extras: Truly OOB, honest with the exception of an exhaust manifolds and some scratch detail

My thanks to you all for your continued support and encouragement during the build. It was a dandy little machine to build and went together very well, all praise to Eduard for that.



Here are the six mandatory pictures.

[Vic Balshaw]

Here are my four additional pictures.









Thanks for looking.

[Wurger]

[DBII]

Another outstanding build.

DBII

[T Bolt]

I love it in those Romanian colors. Fantastic work Vic!

[Nxthanos]

Its a sweet little build of a truely odd looking warbird.

[rochie]

lovely build Vic, well done

[ccheese]

Great job... fine looking model...

Charles

[Gnomey]

Nice work Vic!

[hub]

Nice Model, Ugly Plane

Great work

[treyzx10r]

Awesome looking build Vic,weathering is nice without being overdone!

[Vic Balshaw]

My thanks Gentlemen for your kind words.

[deckape]

Ahoy Vic
A HARDY WELL DONE. looks great Vic clean superb build very strikeing, question vic whats the rope line comeing from the undercarriage up through the landing gear wells via through the tyres. Congrats very well done.

Boats

[Vic Balshaw]

Thanks Boats, much appreciated. The cable from the wheel up through the wheel bay as with the other cables are the landing gear retraction and extension mechanism. These poor Rusky's had to hand crank the wheels up and down by winding a ratchet handle in the cockpit. I believe they had to count the number of turns while doing it so that they knew it was locked either up or down. This aircraft I also believe was the pioneer of retractable undercarriage. Aaah for the good old flying days.

[Readie]

Fantastic work quality. I'm in awe Vic.
Cheers
John