Blanik and Krtek

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January 13, 2021
"Straight out of the box"... The kit requires some scratch building like the instrument panel and pedals. I also added more styrene on the window frame for making sure the clear part fits.
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January 13, 2021
Almost ready cockpit. The elevators are tilted like they are in the ground.
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January 13, 2021
Cockpit in place and the fuselage joints are being smoothed.
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January 13, 2021
Still smoothing. The masked canopy is added.
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January 13, 2021
Wings are glued with basic thin cement. The primer is Mr.Surfacer 1000 that is sanded smooth.
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January 14, 2021
Black gloss primer coming up.
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January 16, 2021
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January 16, 2021
I only had Vallejo Metal Color Dull Aluminium in my storage so it will be the main color. I'm trying to make it more shiny.
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January 24, 2021
The metallic paint by Vallejo has been very problematic, so I stopped to querrel with it and continued to paint red stripes and started to put on decals. The yellow arrow is from my leftover box.
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January 29, 2021
Decals are in place. Here is the Krtek (Mole) with a bottle of rum. Ylona Staller (or Ilona Staller) is also known as Cicciolina. I don't know, why her name is written here.
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January 29, 2021
Now started the making of the Mole. Here is printed about a 9mm high picture of this famous character. I planned to use that tin wire as a skeleton, but it didn't work.
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January 29, 2021
First time I sculpt something, but this mole is just too damn small. I gave up to make it whole at once and instead made hands separated and the body is just balls like a snowman. The material is Green Stuff World Super Sculpey Medium Blend that was nice to handle. It had to be baked in an oven in 130C.
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January 29, 2021
The last part, the landing gear, in its place.
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January 29, 2021
The Mole is getting a hairstyle.
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January 29, 2021
A lot of Surfacer 500 to make it a more mole-like.
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January 31, 2021
Blanik must wait a couple of days before I add satin varnish. It doesn't have much of weathering except the landing wheel. The Mole is pretty successful.
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February 12, 2021
Blanik has its satin varnish coat and the canopy masks are removed. It is waiting for grass mat to be arrived. It has quite a span compared to Agro Turbo.
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February 12, 2021
little back window is filled with Micro Kristal Klear.
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February 20, 2021
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February 20, 2021

S M
Thanks! To make the canopy fit I added those styrene strips to lift it. The canopy was also wider (about less than 1mm) than the original fuselage so I tried to narrow the canopy with hot water and a gentle squeeze, and I put a tiny strip of 0,4mm styrene sheet between the fuselage halves. Still it's not perfect and has some of Micro Kristal Klear filling the gaps.

14 January 2021, 21:51

Stefan Schacht
nice start, I take a seat.

14 January 2021, 22:40

Alex K
From the sculpted mole to the Blanik-La Cicciolina connection (!!!) this project gets more and more interesting! Good work!

30 January 2021, 02:44

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Great little glider, although I believe that it still has quite the wingspan in 1:72.😉
I really love the mole, he looks great. 👍 Did you use acrylics to paint him?

12 February 2021, 12:01

S M
Thanks, WhiteGlint! I did paint the Mole with acrylics. I haven't done any figure painting before and my expectations for brush painting acrylics were pretty low. Most of my paint are Vellojo Air and some regular Vallejo-paints were pretty thick. Fortunately I succeeded somehow by using Vallejo Flow Improver, that prolonged the drying time and thinned suitably the paint.

12 February 2021, 17:35

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Thanks for the tip with the flow improver and paint drying retarder, S M. 👍
I tried some figure painting not that long ago, too. The results were... okay, for the first time, I guess.
It's a lot different than painting aircraft or tanks.

13 February 2021, 08:32

S M
With the grass i got from mail I finally finished this.

20 February 2021, 13:23

Alex K
Lovely! Very well done! 👍 👍

20 February 2021, 14:11