1/72nd TU-2S from ICM models (1 Viewer)

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ylp020

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Jan 10, 2011
this is my second thread.im new here.i wish to share with you my TU-2S bomber process . this plane has already been finished.i hope you like it.
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as you can see ,its a good kit ,with great details. look at those pilots.really good.
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but just 2/3 of the airman are good...
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the best surface detail i have ever seen.tinny rivets and panal lines and the texture of the soft skin. its a 1/72nd model! As i know an eastern-euro model will certainly not fitted well, i will complete the whole model with super glue but putty. sanding less ,lose less.
 
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a strange mistale. i correct it .
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paint the cockpit and joint the body. no big problems now
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its a nightmare when i put wings and engine bays together.i will never do it again.
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paint the main landing gear. add the breaking wire and cover the hydraulic prop with aluminum foil tape. its shinny.and cut a part of tire off to make the gravity tire.
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after i paint the under surface with light blue, i protect them with tape and masking sol.
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the main colour green. as i mixed some clear in the paint .it provied me a fine surface. that is better for tinny details.
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as you can see. like a real metal one.
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the biggest problem is the decale.when it meet the water .just in less than a second, it turn to 10+ pieces....T_T.i do it like a puzzle game. and the decala just like a piece of ink.toooo crisp.it even turn to more pieces when i do the "puzzle".
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i sanded the canopy with #2000 sandpaper and polished it. the original ones are semitransparent.
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finished ~~after some fading and washing ....thanks for watching.
 
Looking very nice. However the green coloue seems to be of too much greenish tonality. As memeo serves it should be a little bit more dark and greyish like in the sample below.
 

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Here other samples of the Russian Green colour that were used during WW2.
 

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Here is a profile of the Tu-2S I found in Russian sources. I think it is also incorrect because a such light grey/ dark grey camo scheme wasn't used for Tu-2 rather. It is more likely the camo scheme was of dark green/ earth-brown on upper surfaces. And just this variant of the camouflage I have found in AJ-Press book no.77 about Tu-2 bomber.
 

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thank you for your comments!~
i noticed the colour problem .
i googled some pics the colour seems to be really light.
and here comes the box-art.
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also seems to be light and not a camouflage. so i decide to paint it with light green mixed with some olive darb.
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and here is a real plane in a chinese museum .i've been there and asked the keeper .he said that the plane was not repainted while they inported in 1950's,just change the marks.
im a rookie in CCCP crafts of WW2 .And im sure the colour is not accurate.
Thank you for offer me such a lot of informations .it helps a lot.
BTW:Great Gallery!!~
 
Unfortunately ICM top boxes of kits can't be taken into consideration.There are mistakes.Besides it is not too easy to print them with correct colours. I have seen boxes of the same kits and the tonalities of colours were different from series to series.

Please check the link...

Modeling the VVS: Tupolev Tu-2
 
Thank you Wurger , unfortunately I took a wrong reference.
I will find more references and choose the right colour next time before i built another suviet aircraft.
what do you like most?seems to be Lufftwaffen?
 
My favourite are all WW1 and WW2 fighters. But the one I like the most is Fw190A. That's why the aircraft is in my siggy.
 
Great~I like FW190 also. And FW190A5 most.
Do you play the game IL-2? I always fly a FW190A5 in a local server.
 

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