avatar_ysi_maniac

Mig-27 Shturmovik

Started by ysi_maniac, February 20, 2007, 12:27:39 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

The Rat

What else to say but  :bow:  :thumbsup:  :cheers:  
"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles

Life is too short to worry about perfection

Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/46dpfdpr

Mike Wren

that looks great!  :thumbsup:   :wub:  

Ian the Kiwi Herder

Superb..... simple as that.

Ian
"When the Carpet Monster tells you it's full....
....it's time to tidy the workbench"

Confuscious (maybe)

ysi_maniac

QuoteCienfuegos was too busy to look back ...
I am sorry :( but this is the end of my back story. I only can tell you that the plane is still flying (25 years later) in my display cabinet. :lol:

On one hand, this is an open end because that allows you to choose or imagine the end that you prefer. On the other hand, a further conflict between UK and Cuba in scenarios like Belize, the two superpowers helping their respective allies and trying to be not directly involved ...  :wub: Well ... I like it, but it would not be matter for this thread or GB.

Thanks a lot to all of you for your nice comments. :thumbsup:  :salute:

PS.: Next week, with better light I hope, I will take and post more photos.
Will die without understanding this world.

ysi_maniac

#49
QuoteJust to be clear, Ysi_Maniac (aka Carlos) is being far too kind.  It was 100% Carlos' story; I just did some minor editing.   :)
Hi, Barry

Thanks a lot. I know you respected 100% my story but I had to be honest: the story would not be the same without your help.

:thumbsup:
Will die without understanding this world.

bluntie

Carlos that bird is sensational! as is the story to go with it! well done indeed. :thumbsup:  
my hovercraft is full of eels

lenny100

nice kit and a well writen back story


well done
Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest.
Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for!!!

Archibald

QuoteThe sudden, unplanned take-off maneuvers surprised the Argentinean personnel at the base, leaving them to speculate that the Cubans were simply beating a hasty retreat away from the doomed air base. "These communists are rather rude," and other such desultory comments were muttered among the Argentinean personnel in the early morning light.

Forty minutes into the mission, the initial refueling cycle was performed with each re-fueler having only a single "buddy" attack aircraft assigned.  Five of the refueling attempts failed, forcing those aircraft to return to base along with all of the refueling-equipped airplanes, leaving nineteen strike aircraft to press on with the mission.  Twenty-four aircraft which had remained at the Base then took off to be ready to refuel the surviving attack aircraft in the optimistic hope that any of them were able to return.  The torpedo-laden airplanes began their descent to a scant 15 meter altitude over the churning sea.

At 0756 hrs, flight conditions were favorable with visibility good to several kilometers.  Comandante Juantorena switched on his radar to see many echoes: the enemy fleet was close indeed.  At last, radio silence was finally broken as Juantorena gave final instructions.  Very few words were required----his pilots were extremely capable and knew how to pick out their targets for the tight approach runs to come.
:o  :o  :o  :o  :o

This model is a pure marvell!!  :wub:  I'm very impressed, that's very, very (bloody!) well done...

Hmm Ysi, is your Cienfuegos the father of Dragon's Cienfuegos  ;)  ? (maybe I could add a Cienfuegos pilot to my San Amerigo air force... :lol: )  
King Arthur: Can we come up and have a look?
French Soldier: Of course not. You're English types.
King Arthur: What are you then?
French Soldier: I'm French. Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king?

Well regardless I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean, that to stay here and die on this poo-hole island spending the rest of my life talking to a gosh darn VOLLEYBALL.

Rafael

Carlos, I am in complete awe of your skills as a modeler.

I can't point out any single feaure of your model that I like, because it is entirely to my liking.

Your backstory also is certainly a piece of art, and I positively know that JHM's help was the polishing hand for a very beautiful diamond.

This is the kind of work I like the most in this place. When two or more people unite -setting aside the barriers of language and culture- in such a project, the results can only, invariably be the most stunning beauty in images and words.

Such as this work.

My most sincere congratulations to the both of you, gents. And my never-ending wish for a world in which people where just like you.

Un gran abrazo,

Rafa
Understood only by fellow Whiffers....
1/72 Scale Maniac
UUUuuumm, I love cardboard (Cardboard, Yum!!!)
OK, I know I can't stop scratchbuilding. Someday, I will build something OOB....

YOU - ME- EVERYONE.
WE MAY THINK DIFFERENTLY
BUT WE CAN LIVE TOGETHER

McGreig

The Falklands doesn't really inspire me as a modelling topic so I've not paid much attention to this Group Build. Big Mistake!   :banghead:   This is an amazing project, all the way from conception to completion.  :wub:  :wub:  :wub:  

Totally convincing, and a good back story as well. (and thanks JHM - without your prompt on the Workbench thread, I'd have missed this  :thumbsup: ).

Wyrmshadow

So that I can make my own 3d computer version, what aircraft did you use for this Kitbash?
Likes to re-invent the wheel
http://1wyrmshadow1.deviantart.com/

ysi_maniac

QuoteSo that I can make my own 3d computer version, what aircraft did you use for this Kitbash?
Mainly MiG-21F but go to the beginning of this thread to have more information.
Will die without understanding this world.

ysi_maniac

#57
More pics:

Here you can see laser device
guns
AAM rails
complete torpedoes
RATO bottles attachments (near scoops)
Will die without understanding this world.

ysi_maniac

Will die without understanding this world.

ysi_maniac

Taken from GRANMA newspaper
Will die without understanding this world.