Here is my 1/72
Revell (ex-Hasegawa) Su-27 Flanker. Construction is pretty straightforward and
largely out of the box: the kit is well engineered, fits good and is nicely
detailed, although it is known to be not 100% accurate in shape. I added a Pavla
resin cockpit tub with seat (designed for the Italeri kit though, so some
fitting/adjusting required to use it here), scratch-built a new instrument panel
cover/HUD area to fit the Pavla cockpit and detailed the landing gears and wheel
wells a bit to increase their realism. Canopy mirrors are from Airwaves, the HUD
is from PP aeroparts.
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I experimented
with the colours (largely ModelMaster enamels) until I got the finish I
wanted and settled in the end for this combination: the lightest grey is
MM 2131 straight from the bottle, the light blue/grey is a 50/50 mix
between MM2131 and MM2126 and the dark blue/grey is a 50/50 mix between
MM2126 and Revell 50 with a drop of MM2133. Decals come from the kit and
are very good – and very extensive to say the least (lots of stencils
and armament/pylon decals). I choose to build 'Red 14', stationed at
Kilp-Yavr AB in Russia.
For weathering, I
used a combination of pre-shading, some post-shading with Tamiya Smoke and
highlighting of panel lines with thinned enamels. This was also my first attempt
at removing the seam running across the length of a canopy, using the tricks as
described in the “tools ‘n tips” section on ARC – much to my delight
this turned out to be a very simple exercise with great results.
Hope you like the pictures!
Regards from Belgium
Patrick
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