Try to build the Lavochkin La-7 released from ACADEMY. The kit I purchased pretty before. The condition of the decal looks good.
I tried playing Pokemon Go for around five days. I think I will get tired soon because it is a simple capture game, but it is still interesting now. I played carefully not to look at my smartphone while walking. When I sat down at a bank and a ward office waiting for my turn, I did not notice to be called and was warned I was absorbed in a game.
The aces of the Soviet Air Force, we can choose Capt. Ivan N. Kozhedub and Lt. Col. Sergei F. Dolgushin.
I think La-7 is so big, but it’s a little larger than Polikarpov I-16.
There were no seat belts. I patched the seat belt of the modern U.S. Air Force. There is a sizeable bulletproof plate on the back of the sheet. It may prevent the shoot from behind.
This time, I decided to paint the small parts before assembly. Almost all of the parts were filed.
(28-July-2016)
I painted this seat belt and instrument panel finely, but I hardly see it when I attach a canopy.
Because it never shows the gap on the bottom if I only display it, I think about whether to remain the same as making AFVs because I don’t paint the bottom of the AFV, especially tanks.
When saying so, I had a plastic paper and buried a gap.
I settle for this as, in this photo, a gap was filled with simple work. When not burying a gap, the appearance from the side would be wrong.
(05-August-2016)
I masked the landing gear space. I always use Mr. masking sol kai. The painted film is thick and easy to handle.
The canopy was masked, and it’s temporarily attached now.
The part painted with red and yellow bright color covered the groundwork with white.
Though it is a Soviet airplane, I wonder if it’s OK to paint it in German Red… Anyway, it is good coloring.
(07-August-2016)
I painted the lower surface with RLM65 light blue MR. COLOR No.115, the upper surface is the No.306 Gray FS36270.
They are now masking for some silver lines on the red nose.
It was necessary for shooting down marks to put several decals over red stars and white stars.
It is difficult to put a decal on the uneven portion of the tail. It was finished paste somehow by making full use of the mark softer.
(09-August-2016)
Mass production of allied forces is large-scale. The Lavochkin La-7 fighters began deploying in 1944, and their performance at the low and middle heights was excellent. It was operated from WWII until around 1950; total production was approximately 8,000.
Marking is the ace pilot of the 156 fighter regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Sergei F. Dolgushin No.93. The manual has a 165 fighter regiment, but probably it’s a misprint.
Lieutenant Colonel Dolgushin made a sortie more than 500 times during the war and shot down 17 planes and shot down 11 planes jointly. The red and white kill mark on the body is meaningful.
For the Lavochkin La-7, there are 2 x 20mm machine gun types and a 3 x 20mm type; I think this Academy kit is two guns type.
This fighter has two 100kg bombs.
The state-of-the-art Russian jet fighters are different; the linear fuselage was one of the characteristics of a Russian jet over some time. It looks large plane; maybe the wing area is large. The body is straight, and there are not so many curves. Such a design will feel fresh to me. I wonder if it’s a tradition of this time.
I tried to make the insulator to the antenna line. I feel better somehow, whether it is right.
I did washing generally and performed weathering. It is a body that repeats a sortie many times.
The fuselage underside was also washed and inked.
There is mold on the rubber tire when I see it well. It’s nice.
I blew an airbrush around the exhaust vents.
Compared with the real plane, squeezing thin towards the rear was not enough. I think it’s better to have a dihedral angle a little more. Anyway, it’s impossible to fix with my ability…
It’s also released from Hobby Craft, Eduard, and HASEGAWA, so perhaps other kits are better. I think the decal is quite good.
The whole is a sober gray, and Pinpoint vivid coloring is interesting. AFV models don’t have like this. It was the first WWII Soviet Union airplane for me.
(11-August-2016)
