Italeri 1/72 MiG-37 Ferret E

[Genosider]

Hi ISM, here's the scond kit I built so far. Italeri's Mig-37.

It took quite a while, a few months, since this is a raise panel line kit, rescribing and designing the new panel lines maybe took 30% of the construction time. Another 20% should be dedicated to the Splinter camo masking...
I thought the Mig-37 had a strange design, but after seeing it completed, the design has grown on me and I think it's quite a sexy bird!

Without further ado, here come the pics!



For some reason it looks great with the two mickey mouse air brakes. Closed, it a bit unnatural. ;D




Nothing says it more like the 80's with that funny trapezoidal exhaust.






The gold triangle is supposed to be a laser range finder or something, painted it to resemble the F-35's EOTS.



Tons of stencils and good looking decals, but Italeri's decals are really translucent to the point of tranparency.
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Screwed up a bit in the cockpit with the sparse detail. In hindsight I really should have put in more detail in there, I did not know the canopy would be so clear!

I managed to avoid the canopy residue problems that plagued me for the last two builds by not using Future at all! It seems the root cause of it was the incompatibility between the acrylic future and the lacquer paints. Diligent polishing by using Tamiya compound from coarse to super fine finish produces this result. Of note too that I never knew Japanese modellers usually will use Future as it is not available there.





More screwups abound on the underside... wrong color for the internals (not everything is interior green blue) and the two missiles are fixed in badly due to me not calculating properly if they can fit inside.

But not really worried about it since they are on the underside of the build. ;D

As always, larger pics and more images can be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/df0084/set ... 648480447/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/df0084/

Thank you for looking!

[fishbone]

Wah Daniel...lepak so far meh?

[Avgas]

Spectacular, amazing detail for that scale.