Beriev Be 200 double

Roland Sachsenhofer Author
Finally there are some pictures: the Zvezda kit is simply great: impressive accuracy of fit, an impressive number of fine details and structures and a surprisingly well laid out cockpit interior make me very satisfied with this kit. One aircraft will be standing on its undercarriage, the second one I would like to depict flying as a fire-fighting aircraft dropping the extinguishing water....

bughunter
This is coming just in time for the wildfire season!
Watching.

Łukasz Gliński
Interesting

Roland Sachsenhofer Author
Indeed. It's amazing how many different types you can come up with in the general topic of 'fire-fighting aeroplanes'!

Roland Sachsenhofer Author
A few steps further: the military version of the Be-200 has taken over the lead for the time being. Now the decals can be applied here. The fire-fighting/civil defence version has a somewhat more complex paint job and needs a little more time under the airbrush to reach this stage

Thomas Bischoff
watching with interest 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer Author
That makes me happy, Thomas! I'll improve the day's yield of images and show you with a few quick images what the Be-200 looks like after the decals have been applied today.
A wonderful, well-made kit, but one that needs to be taken seriously. Quite challenging in some places! One example is the decals: the amount of decals that have to be carefully applied on top of each other is considerable and requires experience. This applies in particular to the somewhat more complex Be-200 of the civil defence.

Roland Sachsenhofer Author
One more round of new pictures before I declare the model finished: the masks from the cockpit windows have been removed, the gloss level reduced and the details such as the static dischargers on various wing tips or the sliding wipers on the cockpit window have been applied. Now the fuselage windows still have to harden: they were modelled with Klear Fix. To give the outwardly bulging window its shape, I applied a lot of Klear Fix to the round opening and then placed the machine on the corresponding wing tip: gravity pulled the material outwards as it hardened.

Roland Sachsenhofer Author
The following pictures conclude the first construction of this double project, the second Be-200 will follow soon - as if in flight. Thank you for your interest and your encouraging comments, mates!

bughunter
Impressive result 👍 and nice that you are back in "full speed mode" 🙂

Roland Sachsenhofer Author
Thank you for your appreciated words! Yes, it feels good to slowly 'get back on track' 🙂