Eduard MiG-21 cockpit colour.

Finally I'm back in the model room and the experiments continue. After a lot of drops of paint I've finally matched the Eduard MiG-21 cokpit colour to Gunze paint!

Here's the number of times I tried.....

And finally a result that I was happy with!

In the end it turned out to be a 50/50 mix of Gunze Sangyo H25 Sky Blue and H46 Emerald Green.

There, the mystery is solved, now lets all start building!

What if? South Sudan MiG-21

Hi guys, feeling a lot better now, should be able to carry on with the Eduard MiG-21MF tomorrow. In the mean time here is a profile for a "What if?" South Sudan MiG-21.

I had a bit of fun creating the roundel design for this one. The leading contender at the moment is number 8. Let me know you're preference and I'll do another profile with the most popular.

Man down!

Sorry about the lack of update, I've gone and hurt my lower back quite badly and am currently in bed using the laptop to write this. I have a couple of bulging discs at the moment and am in quite a bit of discomfort and pain to say the least!

It is so frustrating because I can't even sit in a chair at the moment, so I can't do any modelling or profile art! Ahhhhh!

I had actually begun the paint mix experiment for the MiG-21 cockpit colour and nearly had it, then the next morning whilst playing with my kids prior to them going to school, I made a wrong move and ended up in this state!

I've been lying here checking out all the various posts on the Internet about the Eduard MiG-21. Damn, I've never been so keen to get started on a model kit like I am with this one! So, for a couple of days at least, I'll just have make do with watching what everybody else is doing with the kit. On one site I was looking at, the modeller commented and showed photos of just how good the fit of parts is. Very impressive stuff!

Thanks to those of you who have taken the time to comment, left a star rating or have ticked one of the reactions boxes. For me it's good feedback and it gives me some idea of what you think of my Blog and what I can do to improve things or provide more of what you want to see.

Something I hope to have active on my Blog soon is the ability to buy Gekko Graphics decals directly from the Blog using PayPal. The first two sheets that will be available will be the 48th scale RNZAF A-4G/K decal sheets. Parts 1 and 2.

On the subject of RNZAF Skyhawks, I am currently preparing the "Last Day" sheet which I know some of you have waited an eternity for. Well, it's finally happening. I'm trying out a layout that will have 32nd, 48th, 72nd and 144th scales on the one sheet. I'm not sure if I'll go ahead with it like that or not just yet, but I would appreciate some feedback on whether you'd like it in multi scales on one sheet or individual releases??

Cheers!

Eduard's MiG has arrived!!!!!

Well, today I went to the post office hoping my Eduard MiG-21MF Subscriber Limited Edition kit and Overtrees had arrived and yes sure enough it had! Once the gorgeous Jolene had handed over the big box it was off home to eagerly open the boxes and see for myself what Eduard had managed to produce!

Having seen the Facebook posts that Eduard had been doing during the preparation for the kit I knew this kit was going to be something special. Then having read the review on Hyperscale that Jennings had done and reading that he was impressed with it I was even more keen to get my hands on one.

All I can say is “Wow!” I was blown away with the attention to detail and love that had gone into this kit. Without a doubt it is the benchmark of modern jet aircraft kits to date. Nothing even comes close in my book.

For many years I have been jealous over the sort of ‘out of the box’ detail that armour modelers have been able to get with Dragon 35th scale kits and was frustrated that we aircraft guys didn’t have the same level of detail in our current kits. Well now the wait is over for that sort of ‘out of the box’ detail! This kit has it all!

There is quite a lot crammed into the box, as you can see! Plastic parts, colour photo etch, masks, resin & decals. The plastic parts, in dark grey, which I much prefer to Eduards normal grey/green colour, are right up there detail wise with Hasegawa and Tamiya. In fact I even think this kit’s plastic parts surpass Hasegawa and Tamiya! I’ve taken some close-up photos so you can get an idea of what I mean.

Note the fine raised rivet detail!

Now if you agree that the plastic parts are good, then you’re going to love the colour photo etch!

Now on to the resin parts!

I hope these images have helped you to see for yourself that this kit is indeed something quite special!

Next challenge, building it!

But first, I'll need to find a match for that very strange cockpit colour! Eduard recomends Gunze Sangyo H46 Emerald Green.

It's close, but not quite the same. I'll do some mixing experiments tomorrow and get back to you.

So, was this review with these sorts of large clear images helpful to you? I did it this way simply because it is something I always look for in a review but very rearly see. Anyway let me know what you thought of it.

A 262 over Africa.

Another African Phantom.

A new Blog, about zombies!

Hi guys, just letting you know that I've started a new Blog. This Blog is a story, and it's about zombies in the United Kingdom. Any of you that are familiar with the British television series called Dead Set and wanted to see more of it may well enjoy this story.

Check it out here:

http://fragmentsofdawn.blogspot.com/

Cheers!