IL-2m from Airfix

[Mr. Peabody]

I've wanted to paint up aircraft for a while, but frankly they scare me. Great thing about a dynamic set of rules like BGK, you need to paint up a wide variety of stuff. Your boundaries get pushed a bit.



I chose this kit as it is notoriously simple to build. Also notoriously inaccurate  ...


Extra flight-stand base for those days when you have TWO birds in the air on your side!


A good enough start, but hope to do better on the next couple of kits. Have quite a stash of aircraft to do for this project!

[cuprum]

IL-2 looks good.
But here's glass cockpit, it seems better to make blue instead of black ...
And from below on the wings of the aircraft too, must be a stars.

[Mr. Peabody]

Yup, I cheated on the stars under the wing.

Wasn't liking the Airfix decals too much, so with this being a wargames model, I took a pass on the additional detail.

The canopy was an experiment; spraying the inside before masking to hide a less than ideal cockpit. I agree the black is much too stark.
If I have a reason to try this approach again I'll go with something lighter, maybe a blueish grey.

[Blackwolf]

Looks great! I have an 1/48 scale waiting to be built,erm waiting in the wings,groan. Yours is very inspiring

[Mr. Peabody]

Bezzo, Blackwolf, thank you for the kind words.

Nice work! How do you  'anchor' the supports on the base. The thing the perspex rod slots into?

I've posted a flight-stand 'mini tutorial' at this LINK.
Hope it's useful.