Mig-17 Vietnam

Thomas Kolb
I love these small MiG's - following for sure!

Jan Peters
Following 🙂

Pierre Pierre
some update after a long break. Finished build and a bit of rescribbing. preparing for primer. all comments/critics are welcome

Thomas Kolb
Nice progress! I see you were struggling with the same wing-to-fuselage join as I was, but you managed to fill it in nicely! What color scheme did you have in mind?

Pierre Pierre
thanks yes and I am not confortable with my filling sanding scribbing (still learning). I will go for vietnamese color but I do not know if I do a OOB or else.

Bernd Korte
Following.

Pierre Pierre
update on painting. I initially tried with Flat mat primer AK and Xtreme metal alu, but quite bad finish.
I sanded again and spray again with 2 coat of gloss black and then a light layer of Alluminum (Xtreme metal). I lost few detail in the battle but the finish is definitivelly better.

Pierre Pierre
Now I need to limit the number of coat to avoid to sink all the details. I will probably go for chipping fluid (firt time) and only one coat of green camo. I therefore need to change my initial camo scheme plan and adjust modify sery number if possible. let me know what you think

Rui
I was hoping o see this kit built. Watching 🙂

Jan Peters
The metal finish came out great, looking forward to the removal of the silly putty masks👍🏻

Pierre Pierre
Thanks Jan ! yes me too..... it is a kind of experience I did not varnish before .... 🙂

Thomas Kolb
That's a busy masking scheme you've got there! It will be interesting to see the result!

Pierre Pierre
patafix removed and camo appeared, now as I changed camo I needed to modify serial number using the decal from Zvezda and some hand cutting to represent the no 2011.

Jan Peters
The camouflage came out very nice, as do the decals 👍🏻

Vincent
Very nice and interesting camouflage. Great work!!!

Thomas Kolb
What a strange camo, one would think that the bare metal areas would create reflections that would ruing the camo effect? Nice paintjob in any way and the decals turned out just fine. Now just the home stretch and you are good!

Łukasz Gliński
Very nice indeed 👍

Marius
Superb! Looks better and better! I am planing to do a similar one with tan/brown dots over the green background.

Pierre Pierre
thanks a lot Jan Thomas, Lukasz and Marius. Marius very interesting indeed I hope you will share pics and how you did it.

Pierre Pierre
here is the finished build. The camo, which is not proposed by Arifix needed fun and simple adjustment. I liked the build of this new Airfix easy and smooth. please let me know what you think about it.

Jan Peters
It turned out great Pierre 👍🏻
That wacky camouflage just had to be done.

Pierre Pierre
thank you very much Jan ! it was really fun to do

Robert Podkoński
Looks really good, Pierre! Chapeau bas!

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Veru good work, congratulations .. As far as I can see the kit assembles rather well ....

Andy Ball
I can echo that comment regarding the build quality and ease. Pierre- a great Peoples' Patriotic fighter!, lovely work!

Pierre Pierre
Thank you very much all, I enjoyed the build. you should try, there is plenty of version possible.

Ekki
Very nice work!