Aero l-39C, Cuban Air Force, the aircraft
The Kit has closed whell well covers and no wheel well. The CMK wheel well is to short and needs to be extended.
The extended wheel well
The covers are cut out and the extended wheel well is implemented.
The CMK cockpit and seats painted with Humbrol 128 and black
The main landing gear is very simple and needs some extra detailing
first improvements
The extra detailed and ready to paint main landing gear struts
The foreward landing gear strut with some additional details and corrections from the right...
... front view ...
... the left.
The cockpit is installed and the fuselage is closed
some progres at the fuselage
Dashbords and cockpitframe assembled, first overall primer layer applied
Some extra details for the foreward fuselage compartment
foreward fuselage compartment painted and weathered
ready to install the windshield
Primed with Mr. Surfacer 1200 and ready for painting
The whell wells are finished, lower side is pre shaded with Gunze H335 mixed with some drops Tamiya XF-54
Underside painted with Humbrol Hu127; Red areas painted with Tamiya XF-7
top view of the partly painted aircraft. Red areas have been highlightened with a mixture of XF-7 red with XF-15 Flesh
Upper side painted with Humbrol 83 and Life Color UA303 (FS34094), decals to be applied
Used some PP Aeroparts PE that I found in my stash to build some wheel chocks
Some extra detailing at the entrance steps
The finished model at its base
Comments
3 28 March 2020, 10:53
Christian LehmannAfter I deleted the original Album by mistake I created it again.
28 March 2020, 10:57
Christian LehmannSome small progres. Next step is to paint the first upper side color tomorrow with Humbrol Hu 83
26 April 2020, 17:59
Christian LehmannNearly finished. Only some clear parts and the Installation at the base is missing.
4 June 2020, 16:58
Alec KOutstanding detailing. Looking forward to the finish, this will be a great build 👍
5 June 2020, 11:01
Daniel MysakGreat result👍, hope to see it at the exhibition in Ried this October.
21 June 2020, 19:36
Album info
This album shows how I do the aircraft for this project
