I-16
Type 17
I-16 Type 17 ( Joe Youngerman ). This is the I-16 kit from Hasegawa. I added interior details from scratch, thinned the gear doors, added retraction cables for the main gear, opened the port hatch and eliminated the starboard one. Added a gunsight, drilled out the gun barrels and the instrument venturi located on the right side of the fuselage. Paint was Pollyscale's Zinc Chromate Green, Gunze RLM 70 and Modelmaster..."Flanker Blue" I believe it was for the belly. The light blue gray stripes were a home mix of acrylics. Weathering was done with pastels with the exception of the exhaust stains which were airbrushed with a thinned mix of MM gun metal and Pollyscale rust acrylics. The decals are from the kit and were applied over a coat of Future. I returned the finish to a flat look with MM Clear Flat.
I-16 Type 17 ( Uwe Borchert ). This is the easy-build I-16-kit from Hasegawa. The white 28 is an ex-ski-equiped plane. I must fit the both little wells for the skis under the cowling. The landing gear doors are new and thiner as the ones from the kit. In the cockpit I used parts of the Eduard-photoetch. I make also a new windshield from plastic-sheet.
I-16 Type 17 ( Erik Pilawskii ). Stock Hasegawa kit. Aircraft depicts that flown by Anatoly Ryuszhkov on the eve of his death, 19 October 1941. Side inscription reads: " Za Partiyu Lenina !" ('For the Party of Lenin'!). The ShVAK cannon are scratch built, and the inscription is hand painted.
I-16 Type 17 ( Matt Bittner ). A Hasegawa kit with the NeOmega replacement wings, Eduard photoetch plus scratchbuilt cockpit, finished as one of the machines depicted in Art Deco, Part 1 and all the changes outlined in the full-build article.