IPMS/USA 2001 Nationals Certificate Winners

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1/48th A-20
by Victor Russell

AMT 1/48 A-20 mostly out of the box adding only photoetched seat harness and Ministry of Small Aircraft decals. I added the painted over US insignia's for effect, I couldn't find a picture of the A-20 I did, but most of the others had the "star and bar" painted over.

1/48th Il-2
by Jerry Ben

1/48 IL-2 Shturmovik from Accurate Miniatures. This kit is straight out of the box. Its painted per the instructions and I used kit decals. I added the winter camouflage by dry brushing white paint a represented on the picture on the bottom of the box. The only thing that I added was the antenna which is made from a thread of nylon from a pair discarded pantyhose and painted black. This is better than stretched sprue or any other material because it stretches and cannot be damaged easily.

1/48th Yak-1 by Rick Marshall

The interior colour is a mix of ModelMaster Acrylic RLM02 two parts and Polly S Russian underside blue 1 part, thinned with Polly S thinner. The Decals are from the kit and worked great. I made a few small modifications:

Thin copper strips for the rudder pedal straps.
Reheat Sutton harness
Added some railway decals for cockpit placards
Used Cutting Edge Gun sight (Nice Touch)
Added steel tubing for 7.7mm guns
Used thin brass wire for gear indicating pins

Paint was done by painting the green and black first then adding a thin off white top coat and wearing it away in places with micro mesh polishing clothes. Panels were highlighted with a thin dark grey paint using an airbrush, panel lines were highlighted with an HB pencil. Exhausts and gun blasts were done with pastels.

1/48th I-16

1/72nd Yak-3
by Roger Rasor

Click here to see Roger's text on his Yak-3.

1/72nd Polikarpov I-185

1/72nd Zveno SPB by Alexey Florov