An 24RV with self made Decals

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January 29, 2025
The AeroSvit/CS Airforce kit, will try to make the AFL811 plane in Soviet Aeroflot's 1973 livery
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January 29, 2025
Basic shapes with lots of putty and filler base before adding transparent glazing.
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January 29, 2025
After adding the glazing using the KV masks.
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January 29, 2025
Preliminary blue band (wrong design!) but to get the placement of windows.
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January 29, 2025
Measurement tests on transparent foil
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January 29, 2025
Measurement tests on transparent foil; as you can see cargo door is 1.5-2mm too large... (was design V2)
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January 29, 2025
Printing on transfer foil and secured with enamel clear varnish.
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January 29, 2025
After transfer of the cheatline - note many scratches in the unprotected acrylic gray (Valejo Air Model)... luckily the real AFL An-24s were pretty beat up as well!
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January 29, 2025
At scalpel tip there are An-24RV Labels (font is 2.5pt=0.88mm) and the outline inversion white !'s
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January 29, 2025
Cheatline design Version 4, as has been applied to model
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January 29, 2025
Some wrinkles in cheatline, will be gone after MicroSet
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January 29, 2025
Basic Scheme before outline inversion.
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January 29, 2025
Some fictional 2000s style Aeroflot livery Soviet flag is also included... for another project
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January 29, 2025
Miss-measured anti-glare black. The missing 3mm will be filled with scratch parts
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January 29, 2025
Demo print on photo paper - the black is printed in white on transfer paper
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January 29, 2025
Placed the little white ! For the inverted outlines at doors. White toner looks good.
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January 29, 2025
Design in Illustrator - a lot is repeating and not very compact... but as it is experimentation for myself, i dont need to economize on decal paper...
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January 30, 2025
Tiny white print before MicroSet
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January 31, 2025
Testing the Aeroflot 2000 style soviet tail flag… print looks fine, I just think it does not match that 73 scheme well… maybe if there was some fictional flag pole it would be better
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January 31, 2025
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January 31, 2025
Masking for the metallic anti ice surfaces
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January 31, 2025
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January 31, 2025
Metallic Inlet coverof the turboprop AI24
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January 31, 2025
After clear coat
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January 31, 2025
Placing the correct flags on the stabilizer
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January 31, 2025
After wedding of the aircraft with the engine naceles
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January 31, 2025
The cockpit emergency escape hatch will be closed soon
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February 2, 2025
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February 2, 2025
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February 2, 2025
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February 2, 2025
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February 3, 2025
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February 3, 2025
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February 3, 2025
pained the prop mostly by hand, drilled a .7mm center hole for the pin
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February 3, 2025
ruined the upper left blade by touching it with a finger covered in solvent... already fixed but not as nice as originally.
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February 3, 2025
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February 3, 2025
still needs propping up (as there isnt an obvious note to put weights in the nose) so it is still very tail heavy...
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February 3, 2025
Missing the 2nd engines' prop, as I didnt assemble it with a spinner missing from my kit 🙁.

Also seeing the air intake below, it has a little of center split in reality, I think I want to recreate that with some strip styrene...
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February 3, 2025
This (at the scalpel tip) is the part for the spinner that seems to have been missing from the sprue... should be simple enough to make from scratch...
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February 8, 2025
Shaping the new spinner
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February 8, 2025
Now sanding for shortening it to get it to spec
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February 8, 2025
Negative shape has a little bit tricky
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February 10, 2025
Painted spinner
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February 10, 2025
The TU 16 K (Trumpeter kit), which will go together in remembrance of the disaster
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February 10, 2025
Added a small part of strips styrene into the turboprop air intake as the original seems to have an off-center separator in there, which is not in the a model kit
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February 10, 2025
On the other side as well, in reality, it is a little bit more curved and smooth, but in this scale, I didnt manage it any better
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February 10, 2025
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February 10, 2025
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February 10, 2025
Only windows are missing now

Commenti

21 29 January, 17:51

Alex K
👀

1 30 January, 01:38

Ben M
Nice decals that you made!

31 January, 16:55

Jakob Klein
gonna share the vectors if anyone is interested

1 February, 09:42

Jakob Klein
As promised the vector file for my decals free CC-BY at: decalrepo.redkakapo...eroflot%20V4.1r1.svg

Let me know if someone makes something based upon it.

Cheers

3 February, 10:40

Denis Dogadov
Good job, but it seems to me that you placed the numbers on the wing incorrectly.
Maybe I'm wrong, I'll try to find a good photo to make up my mind.
scalemates.com/products/img/4/8/5/1540485-71-instructions.pdf

8 February, 08:31

Denis Dogadov
The story of this particular aircraft СССР-46653 is very interesting, it died as a result of a collision with a Tu-16. The flight attendant survived a fall from a height of 5220 meters, which is generally a unique case.
airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=42
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_811

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8 February, 08:45

Michael Kohl
Did I get that right: you can print white? May I ask which printer you have?

1 8 February, 16:28

Spanjaard
I did not know that anybody could survive a fall of 5000! and apparently isn't it the record, somebody managed even to survive a 10.000.... nice model by the way.

8 February, 17:40

Ben M
Interesting, I just finished reading a book about the tu-16 and this incident was mentioned

8 February, 18:32

Jakob Klein
Thank you for your comments, yes, as I did not find a picture of this very craft, I used generic Aeroflot in the post 70s livery. Yes indeed I read about the disaster, the Soviet cover up of AFL811.

9 February, 12:43

Jakob Klein
@Michael Kohl

I use Ghost white toner (ghost-white-toner.com/) and there are a couple of compatible printers... I actually have an HP M480 because of the Linux compatibility of HP products, you can definitely get a simpler or cheaper one... The important thing is usually you switch out your black toner on a 2nd pass with the white, and everything that is CMYK black (K=100) will be printed in white.

1 10 February, 08:30

Jakob Klein
Oh and of course if you combine that with uncolored waterslide decal paper you have your self made laser printed decals...

Kind regards to all of you and thankls for your kind comments

1 10 February, 08:38

Michael Kohl
Thanks a ton Jakob for the very helpful information.

1 10 February, 08:42

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