Operation Bolo
1December 16, 2024Let's start with the MIG-21 building.
2December 16, 2024Fuselage being assembled.
3December 16, 2024Wings and stabs attached.
4December 16, 2024Primed and ready for black paint
5December 16, 2024Painted Black
6December 16, 2024Darker panels painted, upside.
7December 16, 2024Darker panels painted, bottom.
8December 30, 2024Starting the F-4D Phantom, from Colonel Robin Olds.
9December 30, 2024Cockpit assembled.
10December 30, 2024I tried to emulate the colors of Colonel Olds helmet.
11December 30, 2024Closing fuselage and assembling wings.
12December 30, 2024In the diorama, the Mig-21 and F-4 will be flying. Thus, no need to bother with landing gears
13December 30, 2024Joining fuselage and wings. The F-4 appearance starts to unfold.
14January 3, 2025Black Preshading and black paint on sprued parts
15January 3, 2025Start with brown camouflage layer
16January 3, 2025All camouflage completed.
17January 4, 2025Not so horizontal stabilizer metallic section painted on the top.
18January 4, 2025Metalic tail and not so horizontal stabilizer painted on the bottom
19January 4, 2025Nose and nozzles placed. Top view
20January 4, 2025Nose and nozzles placed. Bottom view.
21January 4, 2025Had to cut-out the drop tanks, as they were dropped before combat. Then I attached the pyloms to the wing
22January 6, 2025Small airplane with a whole lot of minuscule stencils...
23February 2, 2025After a long work of placing stencil decals o the Phantom, I have started weathering o both F-4 and MIG 21
24February 2, 2025The belly of the aircraft
25February 2, 2025Both aircraft side by side.
26February 2, 2025Finished belly weathering on the F-4.
27February 2, 2025Col. Olds aircraft was really battered according to pictures. Full of scratches that I tried to reproduce
28February 2, 2025A zoom picture from near the cockpit with the paint scratches I have made with Chrome pen.
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An air combat diorama, depicting Col. Robin Olds F-4 Phantom and a MIG-21
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