The Little World

More than one premiere for this little kit.

I was puzzled at the box art for this ground-attack aircraft – The markings seemed to show a bomb strike on a highway amongst green fields – yet the plane was possibly a Middle Eastern one.

My silly – it turns out to be a Hungarian aircraft – my first for this air force. I am wondering if the intake markings are meant to be a stylised mouth and teeth or whether I’m just imagining it.

The scheme is complicated enough – it would have been a nightmare to mask and spray. I settled for thinned paint and a soft brush and am pleased enough with it to do this for hard-edged camouflage in this scale. I may be able to spray in the future on some of the USAF schemes.

I was amazed at the tiny ATOLL rockets as well. With a bit of luck the fact that it is on a sturdy stand will mean that they do not get knocked off with handling.