Guy Rump
Started this build with painting internals Vallejo Model Air AMT-28-M greyish blue (internal colour for Soviet metal aircraft). Engine bits gunmetal. 🙂

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Fuselage and wings together. Pilot added.
For comparison of size put an ME 109 F-4 next to the i-16. 🙂

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Tail plane added and primer added. 🙂

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Vallejo Model Air AII SV. Gol Light Blue added to underneath. 🙂

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Vallejo Model Air AII Zashchitnyi Camouflage Green added to top. The other top camouflage colour is next. 🙂

Mark K
Coming along very nicely indeed!

Villiers de Vos
A very beautiful effort

Bruce Huxtable
Watching with interest 🙂👍

Guy Rump
Very many thanks Mark, Villiers and Bruce 🙂

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Vallejo Model Air AMT-6 added for camouflage to upper wings and fuselage. 🙂

Spanjaard
Nice

Guy Rump
Thanks Spanjaard 👍

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Vallejo gloss varnish added and decals applied. The Hasegawa decals took an age to come off the backing paper and then appeared to be very thin and wrinkled easily. 🙂

Robert Podkoński
One nice "Donkey" I see here - watching with pleasure and interest 😉

Guy Rump
Thanks Robert 👍

Moreno Baruffini
Molto bello! Great job Guy! 👍🏻

Simon Nagorsnik
This plane looks really cute in1/72😆
But looks really good! Maybe i try it once too!

Bruce Huxtable
She's coming to life now, and looking great, Guy 👍

Guy Rump
Many thanks Moreno, Simon and Bruce for your kind comments. 👍

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Matt varnish applied (Vallejo). Most of undercarriage has now been affixed as well as the prop. Varnish on the top of the left hand wing is taking its time to dry. 🙂

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Other bits and pieces have now been applied.

I now declare that the Polikarpov i-16 Type 17 is complete.

Pilot: Senior Lt Vasil'ev Mikhail Yakovlevich Lake Ladoga (Siege of Leningrad) 1942

(29.10.1918 - 04.05.1943)
† - Killed in aerial combat

During the Great Patriotic war he flew over 350 combat sorties. He was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union.

Bruce Huxtable
Very nice results 👍☺️

Moreno Baruffini
Congratulations Guy! Great build! Yuo are very productive!!!

Guy Rump
Many thanks Bruce and Moreno. I seem to have built more this year Moreno. 👍

Robert Podkoński
Really pretty one! Congrats, Guy.

Mike Siemers
Nice job on a very small kit, I know because I am currently building the same one except mine is the type 24. Great job on the camo.

Guy Rump
Many thanks Robert and Mike. @Mike, agreed, the i-16 was very small compared to others I've built. 👍

Walton
Very inteteresting subject and nice done !!

Guy Rump
Many thanks Walton 👍

Spanjaard
Beautiful job, congratulations

Guy Rump
Very many thanks Spanjaard. 👍

Guy Rump
Many thanks for all of your kind comments and likes. I am very grateful. 👍

Charles Sanchez
Great looking build.

Marius
Looks very good!

Guy Rump
Many thanks Roland, Charles and Marius 👍

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Thanks for the like Frank 👍

Villiers de Vos
A beautiful little gem.

Guy Rump
Thanks for the kind comment Villiers de Vos 👍

Thanks James and Andrej for the likes 👍

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Thanks for the like Chris 👍

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Thanks for the like Paul 👍

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Thanks for the like Petr 👍

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Thanks for the like Ho Ko 👍

Jan Peters
Very nice model Guy!

Guy Rump
Many thanks Jan. 👍