MIG-3 Modelart by Emil Zarkov......my first paper model ever !!!

[Don Boose]

All that preparation is clearly paying off in a very fine first model.

You may run into the occasional problem, but based on the evidence of the initial photos, it will come out well in the end - with many more in the future.

Many thanks for sharing this experience and the photos with us.

Don

[Yu Gyokubun]

Originally Posted by vanhalen

Well, I swear by the great KAMI...Yu-san knows, what I mean,

KAMI bless you!
*note: In Japanese 'KAMI' has two meanings. One is 'paper' and the other is 'god'

I'm very glad to know that we have succeeded to induce one KAMI believer who will share the insanity with us

[Ron0909]

Stephan, that's an exceptional start! My first builds were Modelart as well
but I didn't have the stones (for the lack of a better word) to touch anything like that. I can't wait to follow the rest of your build(s)
Beautiful work!

Ron

[vanhalen]

Ron, thank you for your kind words.
As I predicted before....now the "Frankenstein-Photos" will come.
Ok, it´s not that bad, but I´m not satisfied with the result.
Look at picture 15, there you can see the followong error I will describe.
At one setion, the edge of the card is upwelled and the surface is rubbed of colour a little bit.
I will conceal that with weathering later
The fitting of the kit is great, mistakes had come by me.
The radio section in the rear cockpit is added, but the pilot could not close the canopy....so rain gets inside and the Radio section got rusty a little bit ;-)
So I missed sometimes to sand the formers a little bit more.
As you may see, I chose the junior method with flat gun channels, because right now, I hadn´the courage to form those parts.
I will improvise there to get a more realistic look later on.
But overall, I´m satisfied with my first work a until now I learned a lot about paper modelling.....thank you all for your hints and tips !
Now some fotos of the progress I made so far.
Props are ready, thanks Yu-san for your outstanding illustration.
Ah, I love papermodeling,and have got lots of plans, ahem, models for the future......but....so much models to build, and so short of time
With this in my mind......have fun, dudes and show me planes, planes, planes...
Greetings,

Stephan

[ccoyle]

Looks pretty good, Stephan. Everything is lined up nicely.

Regards,

[Yu Gyokubun]

This afternoon I was unable to settle down to work because I was anxious about one modeler’s progress and tonight I was unable to go to bed because I couldn’t stop worrying about your first build but seeing you are doing well I can go to bed
Good night

[Gharbad]

If you're worried about that stuff on your first model you're going to make some of us crazy with envy

[redhorse]

Looks beautiful! Too little time and too many models, the lament of us all!

[vanhalen]

Hi Kuba,
I don´t want to make some kind of understatement, so someone will envy or else.
I think every model builder had that feelings: So far the model got well together and then, in an unconcentrated moment, a mistake happened.
I can´t really explain, how it happened there, but I think I put to many pressure at this section, when pressing the strips at the fuselage...to many glue...a little bit of panic, because glue flow on the skin of the plane....and it finally happened.
I don´t want to build a perfect model, there are soooooooo many masters in this forum.
But I will surely learn from my mistakes.
But nevertheless......every time I look at this little unfinished Mig.....I start grinning like an idiot, pick the tiny plane up....talk to it...pucker my lips...and brooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrr....fly a little through the room...come on guys...you also do it, right?
Thank you all for the kind words, your comments are so much inspiration an motivation to me....cannot believe that I did not card modeling before

Greetings from germany,

Stephan

PS.:Next planes are ready to build, some smaller ones in 1:50 scale by Marek...for sure 2 variations of the Buffalo Brewster...I love that fat little cigar

[redhorse]

Originally Posted by vanhalen

But nevertheless......every time I look at this little unfinished Mig.....I start grinning like an idiot, pick the tiny plane up....talk to it...pucker my lips...and brooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrr....fly a little through the room...come on guys...you also do it, right?

Very good to hear you do that too I always have to test fly my airplanes around the room!