Red Star 47 Finale

This is the session where I'm finally going to finish this craft. All the decals went on effortlessly, and the weathering was done almost halfway between brand new looking and totally destroyed. ;) 

The front bumper goes on

The muffler goes on as does the vents. Vent color needs to be altered.

 In all honesty, the "ropes" for the steering vanes etc... still needs to go on. There is thread supplied, but I think I'm going to go with some stretched sprue. But I'm calling this one done.
Thanks for looking.

 

Red Star 47 - part 4

Moving along. I'm in the final stages of the build.

The front of the ship on, and the pilot is now enclosed. Lots of detail now hidden...

The first time I ever made grab handles from wire. Only ruined two...

There was no color call outs, just a few examples of what could be done. So I did this.

Lots of TINY PE!

Decals on, weathering started

Thanks for looking.

Red Star 47 part 3

Continuing to paint the sub assemblies, I found a very good reference of fuselage colors - http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_soviet.htm

This model is a little confusing with it obviously the future, and yet the pilot is dressed as if she (IM says she's a she) is dressed as if it was WW1, so the only thing to do is split the difference.  I painted the bottom of the craft the "Brilliant Medium Blue". From there I noticed I needed to do more building in order to do more painting. 
The first part for today is the steering vanes. The majority of the vanes are resin, but they are clad in rivet clad PE to strengthen it - 

Steering vanes in the back of pic

The PE and resin aren't exactly the same shape so some filling will need to be done.
From there I got into PE mode and decided to finish putting the PE on the subassemblies -

The dremel helped carve the shape of the rear vent better to accept the PE

Rolling the exhaust covers. Glad I kept that bag of misc. metal tubes/rods. :)

Just before quitting I was anxious to see what the cockpit looks like. In my mix and match approach, I painted the interior that turquoises color (or a close match) to what the model Soviet/Russian aircraft has.  Thanks for looking. 

 

Red Star 47 part 2

Moving forward with the build I decide to build this kit in subassemblies, and when I do to paint as I go.  The first I notice is that some of the lights are cast in clear resin. So I give them their Future dip, and then when dry put a little Humbrol Maskol on the lens. I plan to paint the back of the light in chrome. This way when the light is painted the fuslage color, one can still look and see a shine thru the lens - 

 From there I painted the seat a leather color and then the instrument panel. Not knowing what I wanted to do with the interior, I just painted the panel black. This probably will change. The buttons were just white with a blue wash, the dials with white with careful painting of the dial and indicators. The was a square with no detail at all. should it be a speaker? Nope. I decided that somewhere in there is radar, so this will be the radar screen -

Just about to call it quite for this session I test fit all the fuselage parts. The tolerances of the parts was so close that each could benefit from a little sanding.. After a few minutes of that, it all went together snugly. Thanks for looking.

Red Star 47

With the desk clear I decided to tackle Indrustria Mechanika's Red Star 47. Industria Mechanika is a very good garage kit "co." with a varied stock based on the various artists. His models go from Ma.K type vehicles, to 5th Element type vehicles to all sorts of different figures of different sizes.
From IM's website:

From the mind of Christophe Desse comes the Red Star 47. This 1/35 scale Russian-styled flyer is ready for either in-flight or on-ground scenes.

Looking through Christophe's work - and there's a ton of it - I couldn't easily find his Red Star. I link his pages if you want to investigate yourself. 
Opening the box you find a number of very well done parts.  If certain spots you can see where they masters were 3d grown, but none of the grow lines show on the visible sides of the vehicle. The back page of the instructions show color renderings for 5 different paint schemes. Here are the parts - 

Started off I was charged to assemble the front grill. I hit the first snag in that the air cover holes have little spots where the PE cover is supposed to fit in. But the PE nubs to stick in the slots were to small. I had to come up with a workaround. They were all eventually installed - 

The next step was moving on to the cockpit and the main body. Then I saw something weird. On the box it says that a pilot was included. But the instructions say the pilot is optional (read - not included). I didn't want t make this flyer sitting on the ground, and didn't know how the pilot would fit in if I just kept building. Forward progress, besides cleaning the pout stubs and priming, was halted until the pilot arrived. 
Stay tuned...