Li-2 "Cab"

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June 16, 2013
Found this online for Â£1.96 posted! (How do they make money on it?) So I thought I'd just snap it together, paint it & stick it on a shelf. As usual I got carried away...
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June 16, 2013
Ditched the glazing and made the cockpit frames from some square rod.
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June 16, 2013
Corrected the engine nacelle shape and shortened the cowling.
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June 16, 2013
Made the exhausts from copper wire and the shroud from scrap rod.
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June 16, 2013
Added some weathering and worked on the engraved lines with some thinned down ink.
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June 16, 2013
Corrected the oil coolers plus I drilled and filed the undercarriage to make them look more realistic
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June 16, 2013
The lillte turret was "fun" to paint!
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June 16, 2013
Rear gun. Made out of some scrap plastic card, rod and even one of my hairs as the cocking handle, it was a nightmare to glue together but I got there in the end.
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June 16, 2013
I has to drill out and file the window for it but it looks fantastic now it's fitted.
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June 16, 2013
Painted a generic light & dark green upper with blue lower then whitewashed the upper. It took 8 coats of 20/80 thinned acrylic to get the effect using a tiny brush.
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June 16, 2013
I even painted the turret gunner, (not that you can see him) and even gave him a "pink blob" face!
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June 16, 2013
The windows were all made using Kristal Klear.
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June 16, 2013
Tiny! So what started as an afternoon project turn into 5 days of holding my breath too long and going cross-eyed numerous times but I'm really happy with it.

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2 16 June 2013, 14:24

Roland Sachsenhofer
Wow, that is a GREAT project in any meaning- except scale 🙂 Looks very impressive, wonderfuel, sensitive work!

16 June 2013, 19:56

Michel Huijghe
Can you tell more about the white wash how you did it? Great.

17 June 2013, 06:48

Speedman
After painting it in a two-tone and blue camo, I gave it a couple of coats of Humbrol Clear. (Humbrol's version of Klear) I then applied Revell matt white acrylic thinned 20/80 paint to water with a small brush. I just did little brush strokes and swirls and ended up applying 8 layers before I was happy with the effect. I used a cotton bud dipped in IPA and squeezed dry to remove the white in some areas by gently rubbing it off.

17 June 2013, 15:31

Michel Huijghe
It's affective how you did it. I've airbrushed the white on my Il-2 that you can see in my Gallery.

18 June 2013, 06:38

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Corrected and added a lot of things on this one, see the captions on the photos for more info.

Lisunov Li-2

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