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Man Martin, da juckts mir direkt wieder in den Fingern... :good:

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the flaps will be a nightmare to animate, but so far im happy with the current status

 

further updates will follow

 

I have to show this to Tomcat74, who started the model way back in 2005, and I must say that Oli (Bpao) would also have been impressed with what you have been able to accomplish.

 

These images, which date back to 11/18/2007, will show you how far Blackbird has taken this model:

 

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So, I will be away from the 16.12 .. till the 30.12 ...so there will be no new updates for this year. And from the 31.12 till the 2nd ... I will be drunk and not able to model anything!

 

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So, I will be away from the 16.12 .. till the 30.12 ...so there will be no new updates for this year. And from the 31.12 till the 2nd ... I will be drunk and not able to model anything!

 

:big_boss:

 

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So, we have 2015, next LOD update goes to my team on this weekend

 

Cliff is working hard on the FM

Enoc on the Skin in 4096

Snailman on the loadouts

 

If all goes well, this bird is Nr.1 on my current release list

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Martin, could I just ask which one you have in mind?

You have shown here a number of WIP aircraft, each one being anxiously anticipated :biggrin:

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Allright allright, resolution has been raised for the panels, now ...rivets...

 

 

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Svetlin, i would need a HUGE favor from you very soon :D

 

It would be a pleasure to help, hope it is something within my powers  :biggrin:

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Well i hope it is, how much info do you have for Fitters, Floggers and Frogfoots in Bulgaria? All info is greatly received, besides, are those birds stenciled in Bulgarian? Or they kept Soviet lettering?

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How much info, that's hard to say, rather general, better ask a specific question and I will try to answer it or find the information.

As a minimum I could go through the Bulgarian military aviation forums to see if I could find any information that you need, but I currently do not have.

There are dedicated topics with discussions for each aircraft that was used by the Bulgarian Air Force.

 

As for stencils, each aircraft is marked with standard factory stencils, meaning Soviet/Russian aircraft bear stencils in Russian, while our PC-PM, C-27J and AS-523AL are marked in English.

 

For Floggers, we had several painted with a shark mouth, a very cool scheme:

 

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It is an UB Flogger on the pic above, but some of the single seaters MLD had that too and I think I could help with decals for it.

As I said, just ask a specific question or place a specific request and I will try to help.

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