IL-2 Stormovik

Monte
I am looking for options for an IL-2. Following.

Cuajete
Me 2

Sy Bar
Welcome along

Jan Peters
Me3

Alec K
This will be good! Following 👍

Sy Bar
Ready for some paint

Transall NG
Hello guys ! Watch at picture n°10 : this intrados pics shows the correct disposition of ejection chutes. Academy is the only manufacturer who got this detail allright at this scale.
Good paint !

Skyhiker
Count me in 2.

Jan Peters
Great progress 👍🏻

Sy Bar
Many thanks for comments and great info #Transall NG

Łukasz Gliński
Looks grand so far, 👍

Michael Jonker
Getting interesting. I will jump in! 🍿

Alberto
Nice paint job so far 👍

Sy Bar
As ever thanks for the comments 👍
Next the decals etc decals should be a breeze there are few but best of all the are Cartograf 👍👍

Sy Bar
Decals went down nicely with micro set, although they took their time releasing from the backing paper, cold water was not enough. But as expected from cartograf they are thin no carrier film and perfectly opaque, if any thing a little too bright as compared with my paint scheme will try an dull them down a bit later.
Thanks for watching

Cuajete
Looking so great!

Sy Bar
Thanks #Cuajete but I'm afraid you will see a new horror show in the next few photos, it's a lesson not to model while you have the brain fuzz of Covid 😱

Alberto
Pity about the decals, the rest is looking great. I'm sure you thought of this, you could paint the tail stripes and weather them?

Moreno Baruffini
I agree with Alberto. I think you should be able to paint the stripes with a masking tape!
PS sorry to hear that you are suffering from COVID

Sy Bar
Cheers #Alberto & #Moreno and as for Covid I'm well just fuzzy brain not help by not to going out and so I don't spread it 🙄
Recovery of markings is in progress they now look a little bit "field" applied but once all the other stuff is done and flat coat etc it'll be ok. Not rushing as once bitten etc 😁

Stay tuned for the heavy handed adventures of the Tank killer - killer 🤣

Sy Bar
Field applied tail colours added 🤪
Time to move on to finishing this thing

Monte
Good recovery by the ground crew!

Sy Bar
Panel wash applied and flat coat done. Small bits and weathering to do.

Rui S
Looking great 👍

Guy Rump
I agree with Rui. 👍

Bernd Grün
Nice build and paint job. Congrats, mate! 👌

David Culp
This looks great! Such an unusual livery for the IL-2. I'd like to learn more about this paint scheme, so can you point me in the right direction? It looks kind of Italian, but not?

Nikita Nikulin
stUrm! stUrmovik!

Sy Bar
Hi #David only have what's in the instructions and they say it's "Magyar Királyi Honvéd Légierő (Royal Hungarian National Defense Air Force 1942-1945)" like you said I did it for the interesting tail markings, although as I said earlier I should have do straight masking from the start as I messed the decals 🙄
Sorry #Nikita not being a native Russian speaker I can only go by what's on the kit box and the English spelling no insult meant.

Cuajete
Very nice painting scheme and very nice result. Congrats!

In this box says "Shturmovik":
Il-2M Shturmovik (Academy 12510, 1:72)

I hadn't noticed those things... Academy plays with words? 🤔

Guy Rump
Very impressive build and great colour scheme, congrats! 👍

Nikita Nikulin
#Sy Bar this word came from the german language - sturm and means ground-attack aircraft. The letter O is an ancient mistake. I have no complaints, I'm just surprised that she still walks on the Internet

Jan Peters
Excellent job all'round Sy! The Hungarian sheme making it even more interesting than average 🙂

Sy Bar
Many thanks for all the k8nd comments. On to the next kit 👍