Polikarpov I-16, 1/32 scale Soviet WW2 fighter. Love the baby-mammal proportions. I usually do at least a 2-color camouflage on warplanes, but I liked the simple contrast of green against red. As usual, the engine exhausts that came with the kit looked too puny. I replaced them with some bigger plastic tubing that gives me a more persuasive, if less accurate, fire-belching monster-motor vibe. Handpainted with craftstore acrylics, finished with finger-applied dry pastels.
Slogans often painted on Russian tanks and planes by factory workers as follows:
Бей фашистскую гадину! Bey fashistskuyu gadinu! Strike the fascist viper!
За Родину! Za Rodinu! For [the] Motherland!
