Hello all, here's my latest project. I wasn't lying in my post when I first joined that I was slow at making models - I've been working on this one since at least January!
This is the 1/144 Academy kit, and, let me just say, it's a pig of a kit. Really quite terrible in some areas, not least the gear doors - abysmal! They're an utterly different shape to the gear wells, and after trying to resculpt them to fit I had to just give up and use milliput instead, which I think turned out alright - especially as you hardly see the underside, anyway.
In the description for my South Katangese MiG-15 in the MiG GB you may have seen mention of a country called 'Byakko', and if you were wondering what it was (you probably weren't, most likely you ignored it), it's a fictional alt-history city-state similar in many ways to Singapore, situated just across the Singapore straits where Batam sits in the real world. The story of it originally comes from a political role-playing game (sorta like Dungeons and Dragons with elections) I played at school in about 2016 with some friends. After that game ended, I tried to somewhat rationalise the timeline and create a canonical, plausible story for the country. Many bits where quite easy to do this for, although our invasion of the DRC in 1975 was a bit harder (not least because the DRC didn't exist in 1975 - we weren't very good at geography). You'll probably be seeing some more 'Byakkan' models from me in the future (although how distant I can't really say at this point).