Tu-95MS Bear
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8 3 January 2014, 20:16
Ronald Rozema kirjailijaThanks! It's a nice kit to build and yes, it's quite big... The paintjob was a lot of work but turned out very nice in my opinion.
3 January 2014, 20:51
Eduardo Arguijoexcellent work, how was your model in the join points of the motor booms and the wings? I havent finished mine, half way there, but the work on that area was hell. It was not about filling... but chopping plastick chunks out of the motors... 🙁
4 January 2014, 00:06
Ronald Rozema kirjailijaWow, thank you guys. @Eduardo: The wings are terrible indeed. The fit of the engines is very poor and the thickness of the wings doesn't match with the engines. I filled up the whole leading edge with with plastic card to meet the difference. When the engines were placed I smoothed the whole area and rescribed a lot of panellines because of all the sanding in that area.
4 January 2014, 09:58
Glenn HancockFantastic work - you definitely have the patience to create a most realistic metal finish. She is a beauty! 🙂
4 January 2014, 12:54
Dirk HeyerLooks great!
It`s a nice paintjob you did.
Very good requirements for the Pat Beentjes Award of the IPMS Netherland in Nijwejgen. 🙂
4 January 2014, 17:04
Lionel MarcoAfter reading the problems you had with the kit, I understand why i is so seldom seen. And so it's not only because it's a big and expensive kit.
Congratulation for finishing it in such a beautifull way
Lionel
5 January 2014, 06:16
Ronald BeelenVery nice model! Impressive paintworK I have the same on my workbench. can't live up to these standards i think.
5 January 2014, 12:08
Eduardo ArguijoYes in deed, mine has been on the making for more than 5 years, that problem really slow me down. Plus the fuselage plastic is so thin that you have to reinforce a lot. It make you wonder about all other kits you don't see that often, like the b-1 or b-2, etc. @ronald: you took the other way on the cross road, whe I was faced in that particular choice of the placing of the motors, I decided to make them even by removing all the excess from the upper part of the motor to met the upper part of the wing because I felt adding plastic would misalign the motors, so I had to sand and sand and rescribe and rescribe.... It really got the mood out of building the model. Finally whe I wot it fairly to keep up the project I focused on the fuselage, but that's another story, I will start a project of it and explain all in there.... Great job again! It Gage's me strength to keep up mine.
5 January 2014, 12:19
Christian MeyerhoffPerfect metal finish on this beast! Outstanding work! Like every bit of it!
5 January 2014, 18:53
Ronald Rozema kirjailijaThank you all for your kind replies. For those who are interested, here is the complete building proces step by step, including the paintjob: opschaal.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=313
It's all in Dutch language...
Again, thanks for all the comments!
5 January 2014, 21:12
Christian LehmannI do not understand dutch but the photos are really impresive and display the poor fit as well as the painting procedure very well. Did I understand correct that you sprayed one alclad over the other? This build must have been a torture. Congratz that you finished this challenge.
5 January 2014, 22:02
Ronald Rozema kirjailija@Christian Lehman: I started with a black coat Gunze gloss black. Applied the Alclad on the whole model with polished aluminium. All the detail work is done without spraying a new coat of black, so yes, I sprayed one Alclad over the other. No problem.
12 January 2014, 11:03
Patrick HagelsteinRonald, de WIP link werkt niet meer. Kun je nog eens een link sturen waar dit beest in zijn ruwe vorm te zien is? 😉
16 June 2019, 04:40
Roland SachsenhoferA great and wonderful model! That is a real beauty- congratulations!
16 June 2019, 06:55
TreehuggerI would like to see some photos with natural lighting, at daytime, or a little brighter at least.
16 June 2019, 20:02
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Trumpeter 1/72 Tu-95ms Bear straight out of the box on behalf of the decals, from Linden Hill "Heraldic Bears".
The bare metal is applied with Alclad. All other colors with Gunze acrillics.
