Mick-17 "frisky" Mk5...

[Radish]

I've built the 1/48th Hobbycraft MiG-17PF as a Mick Coyne Mick-17 "Frisky" Mk5 of the Irish Air Corps.
Originally, my idea was to spray it in black primer and paint the uppersurfaces in grey and green.
Then, as is the nature of things that I'm building, the project "evolves" in my mind as I go through techniques, ideas, iniatives, etc..
I decided on just black primer.
Heavily weathered with dark panzer grey smears and dry-brushing, with some additional drybrushing in bleached bone, then silver chipping. All extremely weathered....perhaps an Irish AC "Frisky" on UN duties in the Middle East?
Then.....buggar!
No black primer!!

I should say at this point, perhaps, that the Frisky is armed with 2 x 23mm cannon, a 37mm cannon and has two pylons under the forward fuselage for bombs or rocket pods. Underwing fuel tanks too. The idea is a night intruder, ground attack aircraft.

Looking into my store, I've got white primer.....good....need it for the Fire Dragon Ornithopter!.....silver, and grey primer.....and RED PRIMER.

Red primer it'll be
I'll spray it in a few minutes after a good shake and a warm in the sink. Then I'll do the same to the paint    
Tomorrow......paint u/c with a black wash, drybrushing the wheel wells in chromate green and yellow and dull silver, also used on the u/cdoors. The legs will be silver.
The airframe will receive coats of red washes, drybrushed in orange and with silver chipping and erosion with paint and pencil. Some grey/graphite staining in appropriate areas and Irish AC decals (from Max decals).
On a base with a story (as yet undecided!!) by Thursday (Stafford IPMS Meeting) but I'll post the story and pictures around. Story here...pictures to whoever B)

And it'll be at Bolton, MK and Huddersfield.  

[BlackOps]

And it'll be at Bolton, MK and Huddersfield.

Since this is a we bit off the beaten path for me I'd like to suggest you get some pics of said bird to share with us   C'mon Radish ya must know someone you can con into taking pics!

[John Howling Mouse]

What's more: he actually OWNS a digicam.
Just not the license to operate it.
Regulations are apparently very stringent in the U.K.

 

[nev]

There'll be digicams at Huddersfield

[Radish]

Over the red primer I washed a thin Red Gore solution of varying density, followed later (when dry) of a Blood Red solution in the same way.
Wheel wells painted black, drybrushed Scorpion Green and Boltgun Metal.

I've just spent a super 50 minutes (while belting out "Permission To Land", Darkness) drybrushing Red Gore and Fiery Orange, then touching in areas/panel lines in a thin solution of Red Gore.
The hope is a finish a bit like a Danish F-104, but in Red not Olive Green.

Tomorrow I'll start the silver chipping.
Then it'll be decals, detail painting, canopy, wheels and a flat finish.
All paints are Games Workshop acrylic.

Done Thursday afternoon.

I'll post the back story tomorrow.
Decals....MAX Irish ones are sorted out. The numbers, blue with a white outline, come from an Su-22 sheet from Cutting Edge.

Whooooohoooooo!!

[BlackOps]

Sounds like your havaing an awful lot of fun! Seriously, I think it was easy to guess the brand of paint by the color names    My wife likes their paint too, she loves the names.  

[Radish]

Silver chipping done with a silver pencil and a little paint brush.
Decals tomorrow as well as the completion.

Here's the "back story"......

"Doing That Scrapyard Thing"

What a sight!
The Frisky Mk5 of Squadron Leader Sean Murphy is a flying heap of junk, or so it appears. Appearances can be deceptive, however, and the Frisky, built by the Celtic Consortium of Mick Coyne as the Mick-17, was amazingly tough, rugged and nimble. A very popular aircraft with the pilots who flew it.
This Irish Air Corps fighter of Number 213 Sqn is in its final days operating as part of a United Nations Peace Keeping Force based in Ruanda, Central Africa, in 1982. It was one of 15 Frisky Mk 5s that the Irish sent to keep the peace 2 years earlier. Despite the poor operating conditions, challenging equatorial climate and frequent activity, the Irish lost no aircraft or pilots in their 2 year deployment.
The all-red colour scheme came about due to the necessity of painting the airframes upon arriving in Ruanda as an attempt to deter corrosion. The only paint available was red and white. Most were painted white, but Sean Murphy had his aircraft covered with the red alternative, and it's believed that at least two Friskies were sprayed in pink.

Model: 1/48th Hobbycraft MiG-17PF (modified to a Frisky configuration)
Paint:
Halfords Red Primer, Games Workshop AScrylics
Decals: MAX
Inspiration: "Doing That Scrapyard Thing", The Cream
Source: "Osprey Book of The Irish Air Corps in Africa", Dermot O'Kelly.

 

[Radish]

Hey dudes, decals on, back story printed......    

[Radish]

               

[Radish]

Went to sleep yesterday afternoon and so didn't finish the "Frisky" until I was at the club....bit of flat varnish, paint canopy.....all freehand then "tidy" with a cocktail stick.
Paint details and voila!!
I still need to stick on the wheels (in a miniute!!! and the canopy....Yes!!!!) and it's done.

Onto "the next"......finishing the Dak-Bat, or is it Bat-Dak??

[Radish]

All done, finito.

On to phtographing it tomorrow  

[NARSES2]

Went to sleep yesterday afternoon

Old people do that    

[Radish]

It's a tip I picked up from you  

[lancer]

Well, according to the date it's now tomorrow, so where are the pics???

[Radish]

Yes, taken, taken....just wait will you!