Anigrand Tu-22 and bonus models.

This is the Tu-128 Fiddler kit(1/144). 

Completed the MiG-9, quick and easy and tried a few different paints to get the multi silver/aluminium panel air-frame look. Some are very subtle and don't photograph very well. Did like the effect that the ALCLAD Gold titanium on the engine exhaust nacelles gave. 

Beginning on the Tu-128 bonus kit. Glad it's only a 1/144 as its almost the size of a SR-71 otherwise! 

Coat of Black primer and added some air intake detail to the tail plane 

Trying out the black highlight on white primer under the aluminium final coat to see if it works. Had to beef up the main undercarriage to look a bit more like reality. 

 

Looks like the Metal Color isn't as translucent as I had hoped, or I put in on too thick ? Might try my ALCLAD range next time.  

 

Final panel wash and Decals to go. I like the Green nose-cone, it certainly makes a change. 

Almost at the end of the tu-128, need to attach the missiles canopy and a few more oil leaks. 

 

Final Decals and weathering on the Tu-128, I think will go with a dark grey panel wash next time instead of black. 

Finally get on to the main course of the kit the Tu-22 Blinder. The Anigrand kits are a bit simplistic in some of the details compared to some of the modern kits, but they go together without too much drama. My only fault was with the Tu-128 which had a difference in panel line detail between left and right wing and tailplanes. The panel wash helps to equalize them but the 128 is a 'bonus' kit I suppose, but I think the Tu-128 is a nice looking plane !  

The Tu-22 panels are all attached. 

Black primer for the dull aluminium panels and grey primer for the white panels that is part of the paint scheme. 

This model seems to be missing the engine nacelle separator at the exhaust that is on all the photos that I have seen of a Tu-22. Creating something out of some card and putty. 

Decided that the nacelles were too far apart as well, so time to bring the Dremel out! 

That looks a bit better. 

A coat of Vallejo Metal Color Dull Aluminium and a gloss clear coat. 

And then all the white panel enhancements, I added a couple extra, but then again, there is a lot of variation in which panels were painted white in the photos of real live Tu-22's. A few masking tape liftings to be corrected, I should have waited another day or so for the paint to dry some more I think. 

Pretty much all finished, just waiting on some ResKit wheels for the Tu-22. I also have to attach the missile with some mini-magnets, it worked pretty well with my Corsair.  

 

 

The whole Anigrand kit together, Tu-22, Tu-128 and MiG-9(with some more extreme weathering experiments to try and simulate a anodised aluminium look that these old planes on display seem to have acquired) 

The End.....
 

The Reskit wheels have arrived and they are sooooo much better than the ones supplied with the kit, which are pretty feature-less. I must pay better attention to the angle of the undercarriage for future dual bogie undercarriage....