The Hive (restoration in progress)

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BorgR3mc0
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The Hive (restoration in progress)

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Edit: I am rebuilding this gallery tread after the Great Photobucket Scam of 2017.

Deep in the confines of the Borg Cube is my collection of finished models. Most are 1/72 aircraft.
Some are over 25 years old, some are recent, but I will post them in random order.



Hasegawa 1/72 Shinden: my first Hasegawa kit, easy build, as always, cockpit is a bit spartan, painted with Tamiya acrylics


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Waku 1/72 Aero C.11/Yak-11: Vacuform kit, very basic, interior and gear a scratchbuild, propellor and engine cowling are modfied from a KP La-5. painted with Tamiya acrylics


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Heller Polikarpov I-153 (SMER Hitech rebox: with PE and resin parts, Propagteam decals (thin but fragile) kit was modified to increase accurasy: engines cowling, fattened fuselage, removed imanigary ribbing between the wings, reshaped tailplanes etc. painted with Humbrol enamel.


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Special Hobby 3e seat Me-262, Luft 46, early short run with PE, fit was suprisingly good, painted with Tamiya.

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VEB Plasticard Suchoi Su-7, old build, rockets where replaced with those from Revell Su-25, canopy modified, pilot added. Firt attempt at weathering, brush painted with Humbrol enamel.

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Great stuff there Borg!!
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kewl!
"Did you really pay a big amount of money for only half a figure?!"


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neat
Every take-off has a landing...some are just better than others
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Here are some more:


Hasegawa 1/72 Grumman X-29: build SOB, not much to say about it, easy kit.

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The Revell/zvesda Suchoi S-37 Berkut: added resin K-36 ejection seat, shortened landing gear and added chimes to the nose.


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A comparison shot of are are basically planes with the same research mission. The difference is size is huge.


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Yakovlev Yak-6 of an unkown manufacturer, brush painted, no seam work done, old model, build years ago. The arial is string....and the machine gun is from a Italeri Ju-52.


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Lastly: Heller 1/72 Morane ms.203, brush painted but rigged with streched sprue.

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Pretty cool collection. The Russians seem to have a mantra of "anything you can do I can do bigger!".
To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..
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Interesting finds in the Borg cube! Liked to build the Grumman X-29 back then.
Nice selection of goodies!
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I really like that Su-7! :shock:
It's up to you how much money you want to spend and how many new words you want to create "correcting" something.
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Oh man! I want a X-29!!!
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Medicman71 wrote:Oh man! I want a X-29!!!
That Hasegawa kit is very nice, I can definetly recommend it.
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