An-24 Amodel 1:72

Gordon Sørensen
Watching! How is the kit? The Amodel kits I have seen built are best described as "challenging!"

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
Yes, I should agree ... Lots of filling, sanding and etc. ... but I really enjoy this 🙂

Bryn Crandell
Watching! Looks like a lot of filling from the picture. Raised or recessed panel lines for this kit?

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
Recessed, but this is a short run kit as you probably know, so I have my scribers ready....

Oleg Bogolei
intersting. Will follow

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
Airframe is almost completed. Next stage is masking and priming....

Cuajete
Well done so far.

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
Next stage is anti icing surfaces. Priming revealed some issues, but all fixed by now.

Gordon Sørensen
Looks good! What kind of primer did you use?

ForestFan
Looks great, will keep following your progress, good luck!

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
Thanks guys... I am using Black AK757 from AK Interactive ...

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
Aluminium stuff ...

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
Decals completed ...

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
All completed. Was an issue with masks. Also not quite satisfied with weathering ..

Neuling
More photos please!

Stefan Schacht
very nice

Bernhard Pethe
I love the plane. Nice model, clean worked. 👍

Slavo Hazucha
Nice finish, really captures the 'feel' of the plane from typical photos 👍

Cuajete
Very nice. Seems real. Congrats!

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
Thanks guys. It was a long journey.

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
A bit more photos as requested 🙂

Andy Ball
Great subject! You've captured its lines and presence well. Bravo!!

Neuling
Thanks Igor, very good job!

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
Thanks a lot guys for the warm words! 👍

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
Thanks James 👍

Bryn Crandell
Looks amazing. What did you use for the antennae lines?

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
Bryn, I used Uschi's thread 0.3mm - very easy to use

Bryn Crandell
Thank you Igor.

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
I have to apologise for my mistake, I used Uschi's thread which was 0.03mm, so not 0.3mm

Łukasz Gliński
Somehow I missed it, but it looks lovely. One of my fav planes 🙂

Oleg Smilyk
Looking great!Beautiful aircraft!

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
Thanks 👍

ForestFan
Looks great, would you recommend the kit?

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
Thanks ForestFan! Yes, I would recommend this kit for sure, especially if you want to have this particular aircraft in your collection in 1:72 scale as there are no comparable alternatives. As this is a short run kit, so it's quite pricey and would require lots of sanding/filling jobs, but I have to say I really enjoyed building it. Also I think it does replicate the prototype very well with the exceptional level of details which could be available for short-run kit. For comparison I am now building Tu-134 1:72 from the same manufacturer and it goes much harder than Antonov...

Zbynek Honzik
Very nice job!

Chris Greathouse
That's a fantastic plane!

Slavo Hazucha
Very nice job Igor - it does not just look like a nice model, it really captures the spirit of the pictures of these planes in real life. You really hit the scale impression with the wear and shading, great show 👍

Igor Kondrashenkov Autor
Many thanks guys 🙂 👍

ForestFan
Thanks Igor!