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A little Russian Pitbull of a plane with undercarriage designed by the Marque de Sade. Built OOb except for scratch-built seat harness and hatch. I also replaced the wing gun barrels with aluminium tubing and drilled out the exhaust stubs. I did try vacforming the canopy, but the pieces I made were too thin and flimsy. The IM canopy is only attached with Klear, so if I can perfect the vaforming process, I may yet replace it.

Great "rata" you have there!!!

Great Work !!!

Excellent work on the rata Gary. That green is very difficult to get right, but you nailed it mate

Wowser that is incredible - I see what you mean about the undercarriage

The weathering on the underside is stunning. 5 out of 5 thumbs

For Stalin! Death to Fascists!

Looks great, as only to be expected from a master craftsman such as yourself!! Quite fancy building this kit at some point but with other decals, as the 1/48 scale Polikarpov I did years ago have exactly the same markings..

That is fantastic Gary! Truly outstanding! If I may ask, how did you make the grass field? It is one of the best I have seen, the worn areas in particular are sublime.

Gary, it turned out great... Little Poli rata
Green colour looks so impressively natural and well accentuated weathering makes it a real masterpiece!

Cheers,
Radek

Excellent work ! Looks amazing.

Berry noice

Berry berry noice Gary

I love Ishaks.

Excellent work as ever.

Great work again Gary love it.

pedrofernandes wrote:Great "rata" you have there!!!

The rat was what the nationalists called this plane in the Spanish Civil War wasnt it? Thats an excellent little build Gary . What do the decals say? Death to fascism, labour reserves for the front? Or For Stalin? lol

EDIT: heck, I didn't even notice your base from looking at the plane. That is suberb. One of the best builds I've seen

Nice diorama with I-16. I like the paintwork on the aircraft itself and the grass on the field.
Very nice and clean work.