Crimson sea of Czechoslovakia - 1/48 Avia B-534 (IV.series)

[Darkfold]

Here is my next current project (Canadair is now delayed because filling of wingtips and wing to fuselage crossing was wery nerve wracking).

I try to build one of most famous czechoslovak warbird, fighter Avia B-534 (IV production series), in diorama from Křižanov airstrip.From this airstrip operate during battle of Žďár nad Sázavou in february 1939 36th Flight of 2nd Air Regiment.On 17.02.1939 this unit including this plane, piloted by capt.Jaroslav Horáček and armed by six 50 kilogram bombs took off for attack german ground forces near village Polnička.After bombing of enemy, leader of unit, maj.Kober sighted group of german bombers He-111 and lead his unit againts them.Capt.Horáček attack first flight of enemy bomber squadron but his plane was hit by fire of top turret gunners and Capt.Horáček was injured.He must turn back and made emergency landing in Křižanov where he was pulled off from damaged fighter by medics and send to field hospital where he died two weeks later for sepsis.

Diorama will represent situation after emergency landing when capt.Horáček is carried from his damaged plane on litter...


Now, a few words about present build...

Kit is in scale 1/48 produced by Czech firm Eduard.On boxart you can see plane of maj.Viktor Kober, commander of 36th Flight of 2nd Air Regiment, which was caught up by artist dutiny pre war military excersise near Cheb.Plane of capt.Jaroslav Horáček had imatriculation G14.



First attemps for penetrations by MG-17 (exhausts were drilled too)



Basic work on cockpit (you can see that pilot seat was penetrace by bullet too) and final form of penetrations after test silver painting




Completed and patinated right side of cockpit.I added map of region and some wires and syringe



Completed and patinated left side of fuselage.Added wires from control panel to engine and from hood connection to radio station



And core of cockpit...




Penetrated and bloodstained instrument panel



Completed and particulary filled fuselage





Study of camouflage from my comrade Ringlett (yellow T isn't authentic-there will be substituted for white G14 and badge of 2nd Air Regiment)




More photos from building is placed here...

http://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=253&t=41959&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

[Army of One]

Love the cockpit work there.....great....some great pics on the link too......waiting to see the finished scene......H

[NARSES2]

You have my attention 

[GTX]

Very detailed!

Regards,

Greg

[BlackOps]

OUCH! looks like the pilot may have been having a bad day. Some very nice work. looking forward to seeing more. 

[Darkfold]

Thanks a lot boys!

Short progress from this weekend.I complete fuselage, install lower wings, hard part of vertical fin and stabilisers and fill them.Sanded rised hinges and lilen was repaired by surfacer.Tomorrow, I prepare to apply surfacer for complete kit (especially on wings because surface of them is not much good-it is fault of producer of kit as you can see on third image) and if kit survive it, I try to paint metal parts of plane by basic silver colour...

[upnorth]

Very nice progress. I look forward to seeing the finished build.

[Darkfold]

I too...

Today progress-filled, applyed surfacer and silver paint of metal parts...

[BlackOps]

Looking really good   

[Darkfold]

Short update.I applied basic khaki camouflage on top parts of wings and fuselage.Braces of landing skiis and wing braces were painted too..

[John Howling Mouse]

Who ARE you?!
I just showed your pics to my 10-yr-old daughter and told her, "This is how REAL modelers do it!"

Is there something in the Czech air that makes them all such good builders?

   

[upnorth]

Is there something in the Czech air that makes them all such good builders?

I couldn't say. I've been here five and a half years, but my modeling time and space is so curtailed over what it was back in Canada that I really have no idea if coming to the Czech air has improved me asa modeler.

Perhaps it's just the beer here that does it.

[Darkfold]

Somethink in the air?May be...May be that this is radiation from Temelín nuclear power plant in the air, may be that this is thanks by beer (but it isn't my case because I don't drink beer-only moravian wine and slivovitz-they are better ) and may be that most of czech/slovak/czechoslovak modellers rise on kits from Kovozávody Prostějov (not Tamigawa-really not) and we learn how to reconstruct them for anything (for example-I see Gloster Gladiator, Hawker Hart, Fiat Cr.42 and more rebuild from B-534...)

Back to whatiffing...I must released masks from fuselage and wings (my tomcat drop kit from manipulator (ruber band from jar) to the water for sanding) and here are photos how it looks.There are several faults on nose but finally it looks like better than I expected...

[Weaver]

Excellent model of what I think is one of the nicest-looking of the "super-biplanes".

[noxioux]

That's some really beautiful work.