Nathan Dempsey
Great work! I have this kit & I hope mine comes out looking this nice.

Jakub Chlodek
Thank you!

Choppa Nutta
Lovely work 🙂

Slavo Hazucha
Very nice work - is this all OOB or did you use some aftermarket? I really like the job done on the weathering, it's all making sense in terms of color & build-up, especially on the lower aft section and really well executed 👍 Thing is I never saw a modern PLAF plane in such a condition (it's actually one of the reasons why I do not have one on my ToDo list anytime soon... 😄) Is the blood & crack on the canopy a birdstrike, or did the Ground-crew Chief got exemplary executed for keeping the plane like that? 😮

Jakub Chlodek
Thank you guys! Well, to be honest I also didin't see any like this one but I couldn't resist to make weathering on it (probably it is too much). The model fell of from painting stand and damged the canopy thus I was forced to fix it and birdstrike was the easiest way to do that 🙂

Choppa Nutta
A clever recovery ! 🙂
plus the weathering brings the model to life I feel and is probably what it would end up looking like during a heated war environment ...

Jakub Chlodek
"brings the model to life..." I think this is modeling all about 🙂

Slavo Hazucha
Just to clarify - I did not wanted to come over as a nitpicky rivet-counter - I admire when people put inhuman efforts into bending kits to maximum realism, but in the end, the main point IMHO is you got to like the thing you produce in the first place, rest coming with some gap afterwards - and I really like your result 👍 The weathering would make it a great Chinese Aggressor posing as a French MARINE Rafale 😄
Also like the canopy mishap treatment, looks really good!

Jakub Chlodek
Fully agree! It is only a matter of joy and happines with the final effect 🙂

Neuling
Good looking aircraft! I like the weathering and the "battle damage".

Daniel
Awesome! I love the front gear on this one, looks so cuuute 😄
Rafale is what came to mind here as well, I hope you have planned to do one?😉
Like the wear+tear look on this, the birdstrike rescue is genius! Must have been quite a big chicken

Choppa Nutta
Kinda reminds me of a story I heard about the Russians using chickens fired out of a cannon to test their windshields if they were strong enough to withstand a bird strike but they kept breaking until someone realised that perhaps using frozen chickens wasn't really a true test .... 😄

Daniel
LOL! sure you didnt mix that up with mythbusters? 😄

Choppa Nutta
Funny you should mention that as I think they tried it out too but who knows for sure hey as there are numerous jokes surrounding this and perhaps I have mis-remembered something however ....

"The projectiles were chickens that had previously been euthanized and frozen."

ottawamatters.com/re..in-the-world-2170156

With more links here etc. etc.

google.com/search?sa..8Q4dUDCAk&uact=5

Jakub Chlodek
🙂 🙂 🙂 I didn't use chicken cannon but, if birdstrike will be desire effect can we use bb gun loaded with fly?(or frozen fly?😉😢

Choppa Nutta
haha, seems like dropping it on the floor did the job just fine !! 😄