Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15

[moon puppy]

Erik and I have been talking about Alclad and the basics of how it lays down. Thought I'd show real quick how nice it is to work with.

Here's the turbine of the Mig, I didn't do any surface prep other than removing the sprue gates, and did that sloppy. I gave it a coat of acrylic gloss black, Model Masters. Dried quickly. Then gave it a mist of Polished Aluminum and here's the result

the only thing I want visible is the turbine blades from up the tail pipe, if someone would look up there they will see it.

Now here we have the two halves of the exhaust pipe(I guess that's what it is). I did no prep work, this is right off the sprue. Now notice how nice and shinny the engine is compared to the inside of this pipe. As I said in that other post, Alclad is just going to mirror the surface it's being applied to. If it's rough, ugly, that's what it's going to be, if it's nice and smooth, it's going to shine.

I went with polished aluminum so the turbine would show up when looking up the pipe.

Grey wash, hope it brought the right hue around.

This way up!

now...time to polish. I've been sandbagging this stuff for a while. Got it from MicroMesh Their website sucks but their products rock.

Break out the shades folks, it's going to get bright!

 

[jknaus]

Awesome. Alclad makes my skin crawl though. Cockpit looks mo better Liking this a lot Bob.
James

 

[jknaus]

Maybe I should take some pics of the Nene 10 for you and let you stew a bit :evil: :evil:
James

 

[Sharkmouth]

Grey wash, hope it brought the right hue around.

Please repaint the seat cushions as the gray is the wrong tone for it. Use sheens here to give it the pleathery look. Pleather = plastic leather

Dull black wash with highlights in a semi-matte finish.

The rest is beautiful!

Regards,

 

[moon puppy]

Meant to say that Saul, I was going to dry brush the seat cushions with gloss black. I wanted some grey down in the valleys but it got away from me. should have hit the dry brush when I had the black out.

BTW, those control surfaces look fine but it's more work than I want to invest on this. Still not sure about the wing fences. I can decide a little later.

 

[Sharkmouth]

BTW, those control surfaces look fine but it's more work than I want to invest on this. Still not sure about the wing fences. I can decide a little later.

Not a problem. With the extra cockpit, you may get another kit! also don't forget the air brakes on the PE sheet for another variant and reason to get a second kit.

As for the wing fences, you really should replace them before polishing the wings or use them on the second (future) kit.

Regards,

 

[MrT]

Ok I'm getting some Alclad paint.

 

[Old Dog]

Cockpit blue looks much better !

 

[moon puppy]

Thanks Gary.

Got some work done, removed the wing fences, all the way down to the mounts and cleaned up the seams, filling in with some CA, sanding some more. I'll have it nice and polished and then get some primer on it to see how much I missed.

Thanks for all the encouragement and guidance.

 

[moon puppy]

I worked on the seams more than anything else and once I got one coat of the grey microprimer I found a lot of the surface looked pitted, not sure what caused that but needed to give it attention also.

And this is where we are with a polished(not using the word sand here) primer

this is the first couple of misting of Duraluminum and as you can see, not really where I wanted it. those surfaces still were not shiny like I want them. Masked off the ailerons to give it a different tone.

Surfaces still irregular. More polishing is the order.

And here we are after polishing and a couple more coats of Alclad, also used one coat of polished aluminum, just seeing if it gives a little more "umph" to the finish.

Hope you like it!

 

[Iron Mike]

Mmmmmmmmmmm, shiny!!

 

[jknaus]

MP, just so you know, duralum isnt really shiny unless super polished. Only reason to polish is to slow down oxidation and get a few more knots of airspeed. So you could leave it as is and it would be more realistic than a blinding shine. I've polished aircraft before and even when polished they surface can range from milky (bad polishing) to slightly shiny (but in the right angle and light you can see the polishing). Just my 2 cents.
James

 

[Sharkmouth]

I think it looks good! As for the rest, James post can be repeated here.


Regards,

 

[moon puppy]

MP, just so you know, duralum isnt really shiny unless super polished. Only reason to polish is to slow down oxidation and get a few more knots of airspeed. So you could leave it as is and it would be more realistic than a blinding shine. I've polished aircraft before and even when polished they surface can range from milky (bad polishing) to slightly shiny (but in the right angle and light you can see the polishing). Just my 2 cents.
James

That's the effect i'm going for on this one. There will be some surfaces that are really shiny, like inside the intake. but other than that, that milky look is what I'm looking for. The last shot was under flash so it will look more shiny that it really does. I"m going for a consistent finish on this, getting those rough spots out and all. the tones has sort of blended in now, can't really see them. Addressing tat tomorrow.

 

[mlp]

it depends what you are going for - I'd say that is enough. some panel shading at it will be great

 

[Kreighshoer]

oh lovely ... nothing beats nmf on a plane! this mig will look awesome with markings!

 

[moon puppy]

yep, thinking of going with a slightly darker shade around the panel lines. going to be some careful airbrushin'

 

[Iron Mike]

Post It notes?

 

[moon puppy]

Sure, low tack and easy to use.

 

[moon puppy]

Probably still too shiny, going to do a wash over it and get the panel lines poping out after I get the decals on.

I added some Alclad transparent smoke to the duraluminm to make it darker. worked the panel lines and kept adding more smoke color to the base. Got it where I wanted and came back and brought the highlights back out with the original base coat.

Hope you like it.