BIG Russian Jet Groupie GB

Not completely black, but has come character...

Dre, you do that!

Oh yeah!  You know what I say.  Go for it!!

Yes!!!! I love it. Do it. Do it.

The idea of a black Sukhoi is just about enough to bring me back to the bench this spring..  and I happen to have a spare Flanker (or two) lying about.

White nose cone and fin flashes, red insignia and markings and a beautiful splinter camo of flat and gloss black sounds doable.  What sayeth y'all?

Well I can only assume and I really hope I am right about this, but considering that they use CAD now that these 1/48 Flankers will have a good seat and correct nose, and basically look just right. I have the academy flanker and made the SU-30 already but generally speaking those are the only two things that were bad.

"It just means you'll have to buy some more Flankers lol."

I'll go broke! Unless I vow to build OOB next time. ;-)

Thanks Dre!  I think it did turn out pretty nice (as my dad used to say, "even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then.")

I appreciate that you remember that bird!

Gary

yep...I think I hear the eduard mig 21 calling my name....

It just means you'll have to buy some more Flankers lol.

Well, I'll try to fit it into my one-build-a-year schedule (looks at large-ish stash, sighs). :-)

Yes, this needs to be done!!   Tex- that all-black Voodoo is sweet and it looks natural.

Porkbits

Ooooooooo, an all-black Flanker would be bad-ass….! 

What-if build….

As someone who built an all-black Voodoo, I certainly agree!!  I'd love to see that one; please consider doing one.

Gary

Ooooooooo, an all-black Flanker would be bad-ass….! 

What-if build….

I think that ole Darth would look good hauling around the sky in a Flanker...  I wonder how one would look in black?

Aha, so do I. They look like something Darth Vader wouldn't look out of place sitting in. :-)

I love K-36 seats..   just sayin'.

Thanks, Dean! Yeah, definitely going over budget on this one. Oh well.

Now if I can just figure out the right gray to use for the splinter camo….grrrrrr…..

Hey that's a great looking K-36, the progress is pretty good fro this kit considering its got a lot of esin extras. Good looking build so far PB!

Bang seat, done! Now just need to paint the helmet. :-)

Have some Alamo Cs and Archers on order, after I assemble them it'll be time to paint the airframe.

Hope you guys are well.

PB

Try mixing that putty with that pink label glue instead of lacquer thinner- it doesn't evaporate quite as fast and should give you a longer working time before the putty becomes too dry to work.  

Yes! Release date hasn't been given, but here's a link to some early CAD renderings (scroll towards the end of the page to see all of them):

Link

I'm totally geeking out on this kit! I grew up near Camp Lejeune so these things flew over my house daily. Not to mention that I'm a huge fan of ugly planes. :-)

Lol, that does sound like a messy putty cocktail, but I like the sprue shavings. Hm. Maybe I'll try. Right now I thin the white putty with lacquer thinner and hope for the best. 

There;s a 1/32 OV-10 coming out?!?   Tell me there's a Mohawk in the pipeline...please.

I had heard that Trumpeter had corrected their 1/32 line after the initial release of the SU-27B, but I've also heard that they still haven't gotten it right for the purists... meh, so long as the rest of the kit looks like a Flanker and the nose isn't off of a MiG-21 then I'm OK.  

PB- the white putty ought to be enough for your needs there as it is finer grain than the green stuff, but I find it to be a lot more brittle than the green.   For surface work (but not true gaps and holes) I mix a vile concoction of white and green putties, sprue shavings and Testor's pink label glue.   This gives the dried putty a little more plasticity, better bonding with the plastic surface and the melted plastic helps smooth out the grain of the putty.   This mix is kind of hard to use, since it is a goopy, runny mess but it does sand and polish real nice.  

Ah people just wanna complain, gives them something to do.

Thanks, I'll look into Milliput.

The MiG has a lot of issues, apparently. Some at the rivet-counting level, others that are more obvious. In the end, it looks like a MiG-25, but….here's a link to a long discussion, in case you have some time to kill:

Link

….the posts about the problems appear towards the end.

Off the top of my head, I think the biggest problems are with the intakes, and the burner cans being too short. Then lots of little stuff including wrong parts for the wrong version, color call-outs in instructions being wrong, etc, etc.

I use green putty, it's actually an American company that makes it, though I have heard milliput works. What issues were there with the Mig 25?

Lol @ all of the above. Nah, the advice so far has been really helpful, so no worries! :-) And, yeah, this nose is giving me fits. Sigh. I went back over the lumps and it looks a lot better, so getting there. I have a paper/sanding cloths from 400 all the way down to 12,000, and I've been using the finer grit stuff.

The Academy kit has been around for awhile, so I guess they get a pass, but there's no excuse for new kits to have these type of issues what with CAD and so many resources at hand (Internet, rivet counters, archives, etc, etc.).

Kitty Hawk recently announced a 1/32 OV-10 Bronco, which has been my Holy Grail since I got back into the hobby, and I'm soooo psyched, but my enthusiasm is tempered a bit by KH screwing up their Jaguar and MiG-25 releases. So I'm going to wait for reviews before buying (which I didn't do with the other two, unfortunately).

ANYWAY, I think part of the problem is I need better putty. I'm using a combo of CA and Squadron white (sold here in the States), but it's too grainy. What do you guys use?

Thanks!

As far as I am aware of the 1/32 SU-27UB and 30 had correct noses, and I have heard on more recent releases the SU-27B had the nose and canopy corrected, but I have no idea as to the truth. The thing is,  if you're going to release a kit of a subject which has such an obvious problem which can be fixed easily by another manufacturer then why not just make sure and get it right in the first place, I know there are some who will complain about every nut and bolt, but there are sometimes mistakes which are a bit obvious.

Has there been a Flanker-family kit released that does include a correct nosecone?  I can't think of one that someone, somewhere didn't whinge on about the shape of the nose.

Dre has a point, though the next Flanker you build PB I am guessing you will post after construction lol.