Why don't you get a strip of plastic card? Just cut it to the size required and stick it in?

Stock plastic or white glue ought to do the trick, Svenne.

4 different mixes of two colours?….  New screen name… MIXMASTER Dre!  Good point  with the spine shape vs the green patterns. There are also lots of sharp angles & straight lines with the wings & rudder. I like it!

(And yes, the "Soviet copy" does look much better than Northrup's submission. Odd how similar these two designs were.

Porkbits - cockpit is shaping up nicely. Shirt + kit ?!?

Svenne - I think I'd keep it simple, and close that gap with a small strip of styrene.

Dre

I didn't know that either...  but at least the Soviets made it a better looking copy IMO than Northrop's original design!

Yeah, Sukhoi clearly improved the design, I have to agree! 

Thanks for the input guys, I take it there is no aftermarket fix yet.

This is Aires 1/32 resin tube. I will try to get close.
 

Svenne

Thanks, Vance! Yeah, the kit came with a t-shirt. :-)

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Oh, that resin looks nice... real nice.

Yah, lots of goodies there. I enjoy working on these Kopro re-pops. Like restoring an ancient artifact to better-than-original condition. :-)

Whats the kopro kit like? any good?

I've read reviews that it's pretty good--accurate and not too bad of a fit (except some gaps around the nacelles, I think). Guess I'll find out soon enough--I hope to get to most of airframe assemble this week. I'll let you know how it goes.

Yean man definitely do, I had had my eye on one a while back it was just the standard Kopro kit but looked pretty good, the Eduard kit with the extras I'm guessing is a better one to get, out of curiosity is it any good?

The reviews all seem positive, and the resin and Brassin extras add a lot to the base kit. The only big drawback is that like most of Eduard limited editions, you'll pay for the extras ($100-ish), and, well, it's limited run. You might have a hard time finding it outside of eBay. I had to buy the t-shirt edition directly from the Eduard site, and that was months ago. :-(

I've gotten a basic grey wash on my Frogger and began glossing it up with Future last night.

Yes, i did those out of sequence because I wanted a layer of grime under the decals in addition to the wash that will go on after the decals.

This is turning into one abused paint job- just what I wanted!

Hi everyone hope everyone is having a good festive time, well just thought I'd let you know I had to vacate my mig for a while as I had to start my first commission build which was a 1/24 Airfix Spitfire, I never build them ever and I was going to do it next year as the collector said there's no rush so great I thought, but a few days later he calls asking how the build is going at that point I look at the table which had on it a laptop and MIG-29UB which is as you know not a Spitfire, so I said yeah great coming along nicely. He asks how soon it can be finished (despite him earlier saying no rush) I say oh about 3 weeks or so, I started it last Monday he has called about a million times for updates and I have just about done the impossible for me, I actually built a 1/24 scale Spitfire with the added bonus of poor fits all round I don't think Airfix used the maths subject when they tooled this kit anyhow I am 1 day away from completion I cannot believe it, I hate that kit and I never want to see it again but having said that I am getting decent money for it so well that's the only reason I did it but on the other hand it is surprising just what can be accomplished  when you really need to as I would spend months on a kit like that, but I have plenty of time now from about Sunday onwards to finish my MIG thank god, building for money is not really enjoyable if I'm honest but that's not to say I would say no to another, just after the festive period lol, hope everyone's Christmas is great and I will actually be able to really get stuck into my MIG in the new year when the Christmas madness is over.

I was wondering why you've been scarce of late...  get it wrapped up and head out for a pint- sounds like you've earned it.

Dean - I've heard that story before, but with a graphics designer's "where's my logo that I wasn't in a rush for before but am now" kinda spin on it. Nothing like being creative with a sudden, urgent deadline huh?! Wrap up the Spit & settle in for the holidays.

Finished it just now the recipient was extremely happy so I am so glad I have to never ever ever look at it ever again instead of a Spitfire I have a wad of cash which is nice!!!

Money = kits = money?

I never was good at math.

Lol yeah Dre well not even the guy actually had already bought the kit, so it's kit=money=pints of Carlsberg at the empire or where ever me and some of the lads are headed!! And they say modelling is solitary, pays for beer, nuff said!

Yeah, enjoy your hard-earned $$$, Dre! :-)

Making slow progress on my Su-25...pit and two fuselage halves assembled, nacelles almost finished (man, were they tricky). Also ordered some more Eduard goodies (Aphids, pylons, and rocket tubes) which arrived a couple of days ago. Should push the amount of aftermarket stuff on this kit waaaay over the top. :-)

In any event, after tonight probably won't get much done until after Xmas here in the States. :-(

Sorry Porkbits, but it's Dean27 that's earning the beer money, not me.   Looking forward to seeing your Frogfoot as I'm close to getting finished on mine.  

Despite the failed end of the world, I've gotten some of the decals onto this Frogfoot.  Since it is a trainer, I've decided to put as many factory stencils on it as I can find as I assume the ground crews would be trainees as well.   I still need to decal the underwing pylons, the various wheel doors and some other things and then it's more weathering.   I've used an Authentic Decals set as the kit's decals weren't as nice.

Frogfoot is looking sweet Dre. I'm closing in on the finish line on my active stuff, so I've pulled the Su22 out of the stash. One if the decal options looks like 3-colour camo right around the nose, overall light grey everywhere else. Could be a cool way to try some pre-shading.

Oops! Sorry, Dre. What I get for reading the thread on my phone. :-) In any event, your Frogfoot looks awesome. Hope mine turns out half that good.

Happy Holidays, everyone! Happy to report that one of my gifts is the Eduard limited edition Su-27, something I'd never shell out all that money for myself. :-)

I know the base Academy kit has issues (even with the Eduard goodies included with the re-pop), so my plan is buy a bunch of other aftermarket stuff for it including the Aires exhaust cans, Eduard Brassin wheels, and maybe some of the Eduard missile sets.

Unfortunately, the Pisco and Miniarm replacement noses are months out of production, and the Quickboost nose doesn't seem to be much of an improvement over the kit version...so I'm stuck with the kit version. Oh, well.

If anyone knows of other stuff I should buy or be aware of, lemmeno! Can't wait to sink my teeth into this beast after I finish the Su-25k.

Cheers,

PB

Yo, Porkbits...  there's a Flanker-only GB still running well into 2013 if you'd like to join up on that.

BTW, I'm the host and every one who completes a kit for that GB gets a FREE 1/350 miniFlanker.   Better than a badge any day!

Oh! Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for invite, Dre--as long as you guys don't mind a Flanker newbie? I could use some expert advice....

Although I have most of the western world's supply of 1/32 Flanker kits in my stash, I am by no means an expert on them.   And everyone's a noob until they build their first one.

It's a small GB that moves slowly- I've been working off and on on one or another for most of this past year.  Just got some more resin bits for one of them today as a matter of fact...  

Lol. The 1/48 is big, I can't imagine doing the 1/32!

Do you have a link for the Flanker GB thread? I can't seem to find it....

Dean: Congrads! I couldn't imagine trying to modeling for a business and then trying to do it for a hobby.  I'd burn out pretty fast.

Dre: Great job there! Love the camo.

I apologize on not much getting done on my front, I've been trying to finish other stuff off, will try to get to the Foxbat this spring.

Porkbits- it is here cs.finescale.com/.../143692.aspx

dunno if that linking works or not