Subject: Re: Revell 1/72 Su-27 Flanker
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Patrick Vossenberg" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:32:43 -0700

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

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Patrick Vossenberg 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 11:39 PM
  Subject: Revell 1/72 Su-27 Flanker

  1/72 Revell Su-27 Flanker 

  by Patrick Vossenberg
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  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. 

          
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  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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  Photos and text 2008 © by Patrick Vossenberg

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