In the continuing glorious people's struggle against tyranny and oppression Stalin finally decided in 1940 to really stir up the anthill. Tired of Germany's Condor Legion the USSR sent this secret project to the Republican forces. The NKVD had stolen the plans to Hitler's planned jet aircraft. While Soviet engineers could not build a jet engine with the quality of the Reich sometimes quantity is quality. YaK was directed to get a jet in the air, NOW, and this was the result
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While the Russian jets did not produce the thrust of the Messershmitt with Jumos the top speed was still in excess of 450 miles an hour.
This one will be really fun to paint every color in the book :wacko:
Most awesome !!!!! :cheers: Plausible too, love the jet !
I love it. Alas, everything old is new again:
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Somehow I don't think Craig will mind.
WELL EFFIN S >:( I swear I have never seen that before :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
Sorry Sequoiaranger :blink:
I swear I didn't post that to be discouraging. On the contrary. I was thinking more along the lines of "Great minds think alike." Warped minds even more so. I'd like to see that finished.
Oh yeah I definitely have to finish it. I just have to do a full color Republican paint scheme ;D :wacko:
Imagine this
Russian green upper
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Sky blue lowers
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Bright red outer wings and horizontal stabs
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The red, yellow, and purple vertical stabilizer
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One maybe two red bands around the fuselage
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See here . Lots o good stuff
OH YEAH I am a very large richard head because I forgot to thank the most excellent Brian Da Basher for sending me this Me- 262 :blink: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
http://www.zi.ku.dk/personal/drnash/model/spain/codes.html
Dats just crazy, Pops!
Hey think about who your talking to ;D :rolleyes:
Why don't I follow GBs more? This is excellent and I can't believe I had not seen it before now! :cheers:
Nice one Ron - it'll make an interesting contrast with something I'll be attempting if time permits.... ;)
Never seen a Rep job with two red bands (not saying it never happened though) but there were some with a thin white border either side of the red band: that looks good. You could plausibly do it on the wing stripes/tips too.
Thanks y'all :wub: I was thinking one fuselage band but I also might do the nose and the intakes on the wing jets red too :wacko:
Almost paint ready :blink:
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So excited about the upcoming paintjob I almost forgot the guns :blink: :rolleyes:
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One 37 mm ,one 23 mm, and one 12.7 mm :wacko:
Lucked out, those are the only Russian guns in the whole stash :banghead:
Paint Begins :wacko:
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LOL - what a very.... Russian gun fit..... ;D Presumably the LH engine throttle automatically retards when you fire the 37mm, right? ;)
I thought that was absolutely appropriate install ;D I even angled the 37 up :wacko:
Smart thinking - that might avoid the Sabre-drivers' observation from Korea that they tended to see 23mm going over them and 37mm going under them at the same time..... ;D
looks really interesting
I was sure I said something earlier, so allow me to correct that now. The thing that just floored me is your finish on the sanding. That fuselage looks as smooth as glass and my hat is off to you for that alone, never mind the other cool stuff going on here. :bow: :bow:
Thanks Pro :wub: I always wet sand(over and over again) and I have a weird bunch o differently shaped stuff to wrap sandpaper around to get into nooks and crannies. Also cheat by putting on about a thousand coats o primer :blink: :rolleyes:
Now we're getting somewhere ;D :wacko:
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Of course I still have to detail and do the tricolor on the tail :thumbsup:
Pretty!!!
Regards,
Greg
Thanks G :wub: I really just built her to be able to do the paint scheme :lol: :wacko:
Awesome build there....love the colours....awesome gun armament... :thumbsup:....great
Thanks AOO :wub:
That looks very nice Ron. Are you going to rename it because ' Jet Triple Republicano' sound like an ice cream to me..sorry :bow: :bow:
Cool. You do all this with rattle-cans, right?
Mostly. :blink: I have an airbrush but just as I was getting good with a single action it took a c so I bought a double action and I suck with it . :banghead:
So this is all rattle can :blink:
And we're done :thumbsup:
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Bravo!!! Another excellent kit bash.
Ed
Damn that looks good - nice one Ron!
Thanks Y'all :wub: