MiG-21 MF Slovakian-Airforce Finished
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1 18 January 2017, 16:31
Christian RistitsSome progress on my recent project, I will try to build a MiG-21 MF from the Eduard-Kit in the version of the fully weathered "7803" from Slovakian Airforce. The Jet should be weathered as shown on the reference photos in 1995, so I first applied a smooth NMF as a first layer. In a next step I have to found out which AK-chipping fluid will be the best to do this difficult job...Cheers, Christian
18 January 2017, 16:36
Christian RistitsThank you Bart!
Dear Mates, I have made testings with three different chipping-fluids from AK (I do not want to make any merchandise but this products are really great 😉), maybe these are interesting for you too...Cheers, Christian
18 January 2017, 17:57
Spanjaardplease more detail Christian 🙂
model is looking good, and i am sure it will be better when you finish, it is quite a interesting and challenging weathered look you are up to 🙂
18 January 2017, 18:42
Christian RistitsThank you guys, you make me motivated to taggle this! And sorry for the lack of photos and bad quality...better photos soon!
18 January 2017, 19:44
Michael PhillipsVery nice work so far, the NMF looks great so far, will be cool to see how you weather it by using those products. Looks like maybe I should invest in some of those!
18 January 2017, 20:52
Christian BruerI'm interested to learn more about the technique to use to get the chipping effects!?
And by the way, very nice work so far Christian 👍
Cheers, Christian
18 January 2017, 20:55
Spanjaardprobably you know that, but you can apply the chipping products with a sponge, to produce a random pattern. or also with try to make your airbrush to splatter. there is a spatter cap for some models of Harden and stainbeck. but is possible to do it with any airbrush. it basically trying to do what you always try to avoid with airbrushes 😛
i have seen this techniques done with Vallejo chipping medium, maybe AK work the same way, but i have never used them.
18 January 2017, 23:42
Norbert SteffensHi christian, very good so far. Great idea with the extremly worn Mig. Will follow
19 January 2017, 05:22
Christian LehmannHallo Christian, der Anfang sieht ja vielversprechend aus. Bin gespannt. wie das Resultat am Flugzeug sein wird. Ist auf jeden Fall eine Herausforderung.
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19 January 2017, 05:49
Christian RistitsWow, so much attention - I am overwhelmed! Thanks to all of you my dear friends!
Today the colours arrived, I will try to get the underside finished soon...Cheers, Christian
19 January 2017, 17:04
Christian BruerI watched a live demo at the Vallejo stand at the Scale Model Chellange in Eindhoven last year. They used the chipping medium and washed away the last the coat of paint with a flat brush dipped in water. I'm interested if the AK medium works similar?!
19 January 2017, 21:19
Christian RistitsHello Christian, the AK solution Works Similar, it is really easy to do and Looks very good to me. Cheers
20 January 2017, 06:21
Christian RistitsSome progress...the first results are very impressive, the AK-solution works just fantastic! wings and underside are finished, and I am very happy with the result - this will become a real show-stopper!
20 January 2017, 14:35
Norbert SteffensChrsitian, nice weathering this is going to be a wondefull MiG
20 January 2017, 19:33
Christian RistitsI finished the topcoat yesterday and painted the glossy coat as well...Next step will be applying the decals...I am not sure with all the stencils, I guess I will have a closer look on the reference photos and will only put stencils where the paint was not damaged.
21 January 2017, 09:18
Christian RistitsThank you Spanjaard, pictures of the finished model uploaded...I made a small building-report on my website: ristits.at/2017/01/e..mf-cz-airforce-7803/
28 January 2017, 11:34
Gary BrantleyImpressive MiG-21 Christian! 👍. Does this model represent an aircraft in service, or an abandoned aircraft?
28 January 2017, 13:29
Christian RistitsThank you very much my friends for your kind words!
Gary, this aircraft was one of the first czech-migs which received the new brown-green camouflage...the paintjob failed and so the paint was splitting off during some period. My model represent the 7803 in the year 1995, when it was still in service...Cheers, Christian
28 January 2017, 14:25
Alexander GrivonevBeautiful weathiring job! Just for clarification, isn't this a Slovak MiG? Because the insignia is Slovakian, not Czech...please correct me if i'm wrong
28 January 2017, 21:50
Scott DuttonBeautiful weathering, showing off the metal underneath to great effect
29 January 2017, 01:35
Christian RistitsAgain - thank you very much! Alex, you are correct, the markings were fresh slovakian, not Czechoslovakian...for me its a little bit difficult in my project because the jet shows the paint from a few years in CZ-Service, before getting the new markings of slovakian, maybe I rework the titles...Cheers, Christian
29 January 2017, 09:13
Łukasz GlińskiI like those Czech/Slovak and Czechoslovak Fishbeds in camo, but this one is simply epic!
17 February 2017, 20:44
