Subject: Re: Trumpeter Su-27 Flanker
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "christian villa" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:54:43 -0700

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
ARC Air - Aircraft Resource Center
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: christian villa 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 1:52 AM
  Subject: Trumpeter Su-27 Flanker

  "1/32 Trumpeter Su-27B" 

  by "Christian Villa"
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  Hello everybody,I’m Christian Villa, from  Milano Italy,this is my second submission to ARC.The first one was an F-104 ASA-M some years ago.

  The model itself no need presentation,it is well know and surgically dissected  both by the model an aeronautical community world wide.

  I had to “thank’s” Masa Narita,wich gave me the inspiration to build such kind of “aeronautical mammouth”,I followed step by step his WIP,and I learned much about the model and HOW to BUILD it,I didn’t know there were a 1/32 model of this plane before.I was surfing the net,looking for some information about it, and I ended for chance on his site….it has been love at first sight.

  It is my favourite plane,and i put in it almost all the aftermarket available,the project at the end costed an arms and a leg...but it payed well!!!

  The pilot,come from Master caster’s,from England,the whell bay and cockpit tub,ejection seat are from Aires,air intake and nose cone provided from Zactoman.

  For the stencil I used a  decal sheet from Begemot(a Russian firm wich made decal for Russian plane and in particular for this subject,but not only…superb quality,several hundred decal,it took much time to set the whole stencil than to build the whole model..almost!!!).When I noticed lindenhill,came up with Su-27 decal sheet ,depicting lot of different, let me say “special colors”,I couldn’t let them go away..my model depict RED01,from Nivenskoye Air base...Guardian of the North.

  The building went away straight forward,the model it’s big…. and when assembled really BIG,it’s difficult to handle when assembling process go on.

  The aires wheel bay especially for the main landing gear needed a lot of sanding to eliminate the big amount of resin cast,in the upper surface,to let them enter their location,the front bay it’s ok,and no need any sanding,same speech for the “pilot office”,the side of the cockpit tub require lot of  sanding and dry fitting before setting it in the fuselage,anyway Aires did a master piece in detailing.

  Zactoman air intake are superb,but to set zacto resin ,it’s required a bit of cutting and sanding,to eliminate some part,of the lower surface of the Trumpeter kit, to let resin intake to fit properly.In particular to eliminate a big gap in the rear part of the resin intake and the Trumpeter kit part,I had to use epoxy putty,because tamya’s one recessed,and Zacto resin didn’t fit perfectly,at the end the job,was worthy the effort.

  The same for the nose cone,well fit the upper part of the fuselage,but the lower one had to be filled with epoxy putty,wich is stronger and don’t recess,sanding and rescribing the panel line and riveting of the area.

  I didn’t love Trumpeter decision to use hinge,for rudder,slat and flap,I fixed with cyano glue,without using it.

  The windshield ,is narrow size than the fuselage,so I had to put a thiny piece of plasticard,inside to fix the problem and to allow the wind shild take the right shape.

  For paint I used model master enamel paint series,dedicated to flanker,except for the blue,model master color where too light in my opinion,so I used model master sky blue,many picture I observed depict the planes wich this blue ,instead of blue provided fot the flanker series…I preferred to use this.

  I faded the single panel adding some drop of white in each color,real plane are very dirty,due to the extreme climate condition of Russian territory,which Flanker are called to operate...extreme Hot and brief summer,and more extreme cold winter,especially in the north...russian plane are dirty and warn...especially Flanker...mine is not an exception.

  Engine are painted with alclad.

  Once painting phase was completed,a layer of future,one week later,decaling,a second layer of future to seal the job,then wheatering with oil color to highlight panel line and rivets.

  The whole model took about six month to get completed.

  Hope you like it,and fell free to give me your feed back and critics over my work,excuse me for the poor quality of the pictures.

  This is my personal tribute to Russia!!!!

  Thank’s to all of you!!!Next project it’s a F-104 G Hasegawa 1/32 in Italian nuclear strike of the early sixtyes!!!!

  Christian