1/48 Trumpeter Su 15 TM 'Flagon F' |
Gallery Article by Darius Aibara
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Dec 30 2003
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This kit has been residing
woefully incomplete on my workbench for about six months, however in a burst of
enthusiasm I completed it in in the last two weeks! The Trumpeter kit
itself has been previously described on ARC and is reasonably well detailed
apart from the nose profile. I used the Eduard photoetched detail set for
cockpit and airframe details but omitted their photoetched airbrakes as being
too much hard work for something that looks OK as moulded by Trumpeter.
Once the fuselage was assembled I operated on the nose using Jan Mikes excellent
Su15 article in the ARC gallery as a reference. I also extended the
nose gear leg to give the correct looking stance to the aircraft.
The nose job complete I spray-primed the model with grey auto primer and then
prepared for the bare metal finish.
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images below to see larger images
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With a bare metal
finish after priming I mask off particular panels and then apply a few coats of
silver metallic spray paint (in this case Halfords Nissan Silver). I then
remove the masking tape, which leaves the grey panels showing through, and brush
paint Humbrol Metalcote onto small access panels etc. Finally I polish the
whole fuselage with SNJ polishing powder.
The three paint finishes
(grey primer, silver and Metalcote) polish up to
different shades and reflectance. The jet pipes and pen-nib tail were
painted gunmetal and polished with SNJ powder to give a darker finish.