An-71 Madcap for ARC's What if GB

[The Rat]

Okay, it looks like this will be the only one I get done in time, and she ain't pretty. My old eyes don't see things as clearly as the camera obviously, it looks rougher in a pic than it does to my own visual processors. Hey wait a minute, this is a Russian aircraft that's been (supposedly) pulled out of long-term outside storage to serve the U.N. That's natural weathering and chipping and whatever else! Yeah, that's the ticket.

This was the first time I've ever printed my own decals - the predictable disasters ensued but at least I've learned what not to do. The setting solution just about melted them and left the starboard side United Nations decal looking as if would have been more at home on a Ju-52's corrugated surface. The white paint is Testors Fine Surface Primer. I've said it before and I'll say it again; in my opinion you can't get a better white paint. Leading edges and cowlings were done with a silver Sharpie marker, a passable approximation of Corogard in this scale (that's my story and I'm sticking to it).

Here she is in all her glory, the An-71 Madcap!

[Aussie747]

Nice! What kit is this, it looks damn small! 

[The Rat]

Nice! What kit is this, it looks damn small! 

Oops, yeah, sorry I forgot a bit of background. Not much really, here's some pics:





TINY!

[Ed S]

Looks good.  You did a good job on that tiny bit of plastic. 

Ed

[sideshowbob9]

Dinky little thing isn't it? You've done a great job in getting yours to look so good (What? Me, bitter? Nah!  )

[Brian da Basher]

You've done some very fine work in a very challenging scale, Rat-San! I really like how you used a sharpie on the intakes and leading edges. That technique works well in this scale, at leat to my own aging, natural visual processors. As for the "wrinkled" UN on the side, that can be explained by the elderly workers with the shakes brought out of retirement to take this bird out of mothballs.

Another winner, Rat!

Brian da Basher