Zvezda Russian WW2 Polikarpov i-16 type 24 (Part 2 added)

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Great little kit to build and paint.
Painted in Vallejo Model Air using a brush and a cocktail stick!
Just a bit of roughing up, streaking, chipping and weathering.
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I'm going to try and add that superb winter 'Squiggle' camouflage picture option which Tony posted on his recent i-16 build.... :fearful:

Cheers.
Ron
 

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I have a I-16 on the bench in quarter scale, nope not doing the squiggles.......
 

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Hi Ron
You go from one extreme to the other. A b****y great cardboard ship and an itty-bitty plastic plane. And now the threat of squiggles!! :tongue-out3: Your eyes are doomed, doomed I say! (quoting Frazier)
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Excellent little tiddler mate ! These little kits are incredible aren’t they ,just click together seamlessly and the detail is brilliant ( that windscreen is a tricky paint though isn’t it!!). Looking forward to the squiggles and if you get the bug they do a fair few of these cheap click together kits , both armour and aircraft .

na zda-ró-vye !
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Excellent little tiddler mate ! These little kits are incredible aren’t they ,just click together seamlessly and the detail is brilliant ( that windscreen is a tricky paint though isn’t it!!). Looking forward to the squiggles and if you get the bug they do a fair few of these cheap click together kits , both armour and aircraft .

na zda-ró-vye !
Ivan kozhedub

Agree 100%. Their 1/100 armour kits are superb quality and can be found really cheaply if you search around.

Really looking forward to your squiggles - but you must really be a sucker for punishment for trying them!
 

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Thanks chaps.

Ya gotta have a challenge in life, Dave.

First attempt done with a sharpened cocktail stick.
Came out o.k., but far too blotchy and no real squiggles!
I think I was still painting 'that' camouflage on my recent 1/72 Sparviero...... :upside:

Anyway, here it is - or was. I've overcoated it all out with the green.

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Start again, Ron.

I need summat far sharper than a sharpened cocktail stick!
 

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Sorted.

The wife suggested a large safety pin...and it's working!
 

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Finally finished.
I'll post the finished model over in 'Completed' asap.

Thanks to those who posted on this thread. Much appreciated.
 
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