I-16 Mosca the blue tailed fly.

[phantom II]

Just thought I would switch thing up a bit here while the Future dries on the Nate.

I started scribing this 1/48 I-16 . I should have called it a Ishack ( Donkey )as it represents a Russian bird but I like Mosca ( Fly ) as it is so small and it is going to have a blue tail.

The Polikarpov I-16 was a Soviet fighter aircraft of revolutionary design; it was the world's first low-wing cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear to have attained operational status and as such "introduced a new vogue in fighter design."[1] The I-16 was introduced in the mid-1930s and formed the backbone of the Soviet Air Force at the beginning of World War II. The diminutive fighter, nicknamed "Ishak", "Ishachok" ("Donkey", "Burro") by Soviet pilots, prominently featured in the Second Sino-Japanese War,[2] the Battle of Khalkhin Gol[2] and the Spanish Civil War[3][4] – where it was called the Rata ("Rat") by the Nationalists or Mosca ("Fly") by the Republicans. The Finnish nickname for I-16 was Siipiorava ("Flying Squirrel").

Hope you'll watch. Cheers, Christian B)

 

[moon puppy]

I guess you got your AC fixed. Cool...

 

[phantom II]

No I have not . Won't happen till tuesday/Wednesday :vmad

Pleasant in the evenings though and I got several fans blasting away :woohoo:

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[surfsup]

It would have to be one of the smallest 48 Kits I have ever seen.....Cheers mark

 

[SA Dave]

Cute little bugger aint it

 

[phantom II]

It would have to be one of the smallest 48 Kits I have ever seen.....Cheers mark

Very small Mark . Good for the parking space

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[phantom II]

Cute little bugger aint it

Sort of Dave , in a brutish unrefined sort of way . I'm guessing that one would have to believe that Buldogs are cute too to really buy into that

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[moon puppy]

Reminds me of the Gee Bee.

 

[Iron Mike]

Jimmy crack corn and git-r-done! B) :drinks

 

[lupanzer]

... Cool!

Luiz.

 

[phantom II]

Not much got done this last week since the A/C was out of commision :vmad but now the air is back on

So, a base coat of black Mr surfacer ( love that stuff ) followed with some custom gray/blue.

Then, some shadows with Vallejo wash .

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[razordws]

Cool plane!

 

[ij001]

Like where this is headed, Chris. Very nice effects in the pit so far.

Ian.

 

[moon puppy]

 

[Swordsman]

Nice ... & tiny ...

 

[Iron Mike]

Cool results, even if you weren't while doing it. Rock on! :drinks

 

[phantom II]

Thanks Dave . Finally got the other paint detail sprayed on the KI-27 , so I hope to get some work done on this one tomorrow

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[lupanzer]

Luiz

 

[Swordsman]

Gerry

 

[phantom II]

Thanks Gerry, Luiz, Bob , Mike, Ian . for showing an interest in this little oddity . :hmmm

Sorry for not posting sooner but it's been sort of busy here plus I did not come back ready to hit the runway running.

I did get some time over the last few day to do some figuring on this kit.

Eduard make some nice looking kits but the idea that their product is suppose to fit together when they sell it to the customer continues to elude them :smack

My first problem came when I realised that the floor/seat assy has to get pushed back inside the oddly shaped fuselage that you can't keep still to work on .

There are no locator tabs or any marks to aid you in figuring this out either

So, one by one I started adding positive stops so it could be located in the correct place during assembly.

As you can see, with the lower wing mounted, it looks like it's in a tunnel

Anyhow, that being squared away the PE was installed and painted.

I soon realised that their mounting point on the lever assemblies was totally wrong and had to be moved up 1/4 in to be above the floor where it belongs

The other side had no problem but I decided to add the two control rods that belong there.

Next, I built up their IP which is not that much like a real one but it's nice and it fits

I then cut out the ports for the windows that provide daylight to the Instrument panel. I also made and installed some doublers.

Tomorrow I'll try to get the seat harness on so we can finish this assembly.

Thanks for looking. Cheers, Christian B)