Made In USSR GB

Magnific La-7 Reasoned wishing one

That La-7 nice, Reasoned.   I wish I could get my panel line washes to be that precise.  It looks as if the landing gear and the rear stabs could exchanged with the MiG-3 as they look so similar.

OK guys, this is the best I could do on a Trumpeter SU-15G Flagon, Ukerainian Air Force. Some mistakes were mine, others the kit. I still cannot paint canopies, so please accept my appologies about it!! I feel the canopy was a touch to short anyway.

you can resolve canopies with opened option. 

Nice piece at all flagon have a particular fashon

Well I will go with a couple of other builds A Airfix 1/72 mig 15 and the Amodel Mig I-270 rocket powered plane

Khalee2

Well I will go with a couple of other builds A Airfix 1/72 mig 15 and the Amodel Mig I-270 rocket powered plane

LOL

the duo seems as my new enties for japanese GB ..

A simply good new tooling from airfix and a terrific amodel , waiting to see the wip

Here are some WIP pics of my BMP-2D

I did not add the upper part of the tracks, because they will be hidden by the skirts. I'm building this kit straight from the box.

Nice piece Ozzman

Add to me the airfix mig-23 1/72 (i posted something some page ago) and also an icm zil-157 1/72

Here are some more pictures of my BMP. I will probably paint it some time later today. I left the skirts off until after painting.

Ok here is where I am at with the Mig 15 anyway I am very happy with the cockpit even tho I lost one of the seat belts and the side ejection handles But at least I went and finished it and not chuck the whole thing out of frustration. Things so far to watch for is you will need to trim the instrument console and the front air intake thing to get the side to fit other wise you will have a gap

I painted my BMP today. I decided to go for the green on gray shceme.

Good to see that there are still some people on this GB! I've managed to get a bit (little / small / tiny...) of work done on the Tu-160 in the last week or so.

The wings of the Trumpeter Blackjack do swing, but there isn't any mechanism to "join" them as the copious weapons bays get in the way, I'm also doing this one with all the high lift trickery deployed, so the wings cant be anything other than fully extended. In the event that this bird ever has to get moved anywhere, I decided that rather than glue the  inner wing tabs into the body that I would alter them a bit to allow the wings to be removed / refitted as required.

I've opened up the outer end of the mounting "box" & fitted some scrap plastic over the boxes so that the wings can be slid in & out, although I may beef the area up with lashings of Milliput;

The scrap plastic came from two rather expensive cold war relics, which unlike the Tu-160 never made it past the prototype stage, the grey bit is the wing-tip pivot joint from the XB-70 & the white part is the bomb bay liner from a TSR.2;

The wings, flaps, slats & spoilers are virtually complete, with only a wash & final clear coat to go. I tried an off the shelf wash, but was less than impressed with the results - no matter how much I mixed it, it was still to grainy................ Being hesitant about doing an enamel wash (who would want to slosh white spirits over their work?) I tried an wash made with a mixture of draughting ink, water & flow aid, but this ended up staining the clear (future). So as I've been told to & read of about a million times, I made an enamel wash & started sloshing white spirits over the flaps (didn't want to ruin a wing) & WOW - it works so easily & cleans so easily. Guess I should have done what I was advised in the first place!

I also started the main landing gear, which have metal cores to help support this hefty kit when it's finished;

I'm hoping to get the fuselage halves buttoned up pretty soon as other than a little splash of paint here & there & some dry fitting & sanding they can be joined.

Good progress guys

Milairjunkie the gear seems have lots of pieces LOL

At the risk of killing this GB, I'll add a sweetener- a Trumpeter 1/32 Su-27 Flanker B that I've decided to build OOB.   There's a lot of noise on other forums about the kit's inaccuracies (canopy profile, nose cone shape and length and incorrect intake shapes) but I'm not going to drop the $$ on the Zactomodels resin correction parts as it looks like a big-azzed Flanker B to me.  The two seater version, the Su-27 UB Flanker C in the stash will get a full Eduard PE treatment when i get around to it.

The full-sized house cat is for size reference as the finished model will be just under 28 inches, or about 70cm, in length.  I have no idea where I'll store this once it is finished!

I have painted the cockpit a lovely RLM 76 and have begun to detail paint the IP, side panels and whatnot.  There's seemingly a million switches in there... 

The missiles and launch rails are partially assembled, but there's a ton of cleanup work left to do before i can add the remaining guidance fins and clear seeker heads.

I 've also started to work up the main wings and flaps- the workable leading edge flaps ought to be somewhat troublesome.

Fun, fun, fun!!

Using the Squadron/Signal Su-27 Flanker walk-around book, I worked on the cockpit tub and finished the IP today.

The driver's tub before-

And close to five hours later I'm here-

I used a medium green paint for the CRT display, then liberally doused it with Tamiya's Clear Smoke and then a heavy coat of Future to give it a sufficently murky appearance.

There's still a bit more painting to be done in here- the rudder pedals, the floor and the seat mount.  I haven't gotten to the seat yet, oddly enough Trumpeter puts that step near the end of the instructions! 

Flanker  family are my favourite modern planes i fear to imaginate how big can be in 1/32!!

best way to correct the inaccuracies is to scan some scale draw and print in same scale of the kit and compare the pieces directly on the sheet  

Also already in the picture you can see an inaccuracies on the ip, one of main instryments are in wrong place wy trumpeteer perform ther errors on expensive kits??

For the canopy if you leave it openen is really hard to see wrong shapes (if he is wrong) 

the nose inaccuracies is one of more bast*** thing to correct on a kit.... or just leave it as is

BTW the cockpit paint is really good clean an perfect

this is my old 72 italeri flanker (even on this the nose is wrong but just leave as the kit was) need n future to build another better

Hey all... Just stumbled across this GB. I am currently working on two Tamiya kits: 1/25 T-34/76 and a 1/25 SU-100. They are mostly built and in primer but have a long way to go. Do these qualify for this GB??

Sorry, they have to be less than 50% complete, as stated in the rules.

bsyamato

this is my old 72 italeri flanker (even on this the nose is wrong but just leave as the kit was) need n future to build another better

bsyamato, how do you like that Italeri Flanker kit? I just picked up the Strike Flanker for $10 CDN, the same shop also has the "normal" Flanker, and a Sea Flanker for the same price.

Mine is the older one, operated lots of improvement on it , wells details , mirrors !!! and a metal needle for the nose pitot.

The times consumed the decals, not protection used when i buid it  

The su-34 (strike flanker) is a sort of new kit (probably a zvezda rebox) with recessed panels, have it in the stash

as you can see from your copy is nothing of special but a good base to add details.

The old i built was with raised panels detail. Was not so bad for the gone times, and the only i could get.

Before it, i build also the oldest revell one !! probably the first flanker kit,  totally wrong in all aspect.

I'm counting to get the Icm or the airfix flanker (by online reviews seems are the most correct for the first flanker version in 1/72 scale) to replace it on my collection

some work on the zil, i just get it because went 3€

little basic kit but with some little work can look good

first coat with olive drab and black

this is my first 1/72 veichle but sure not last

Whose kit is that- it looks like really soft plastic.

black plastic are a little soft, not too much (and melt quick with tamiya glue ) but the other green pieces are in standard styrene hardness.

Well, I finished my BMP-2D. Enjoy

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Ozzman the bmp looks good, please post more pics

I'm on a Russian kick right now (just finished a KV-2, the Trumpeter NKL-26 Aerosan and the Zvezda BA-10M), so sign me up for the Eastern Express BT-7A and a SU-76i conversion of the old Tamiya Panzer III kit.

An update on my Su-27 Flanker B...  it's been mostly detail painting the stuff that goes inside before you close the fuselage, assembling a major pile of missiles and gluing together of lots of wing surfaces. 

That means the cockpit, front and rear wheel wells are totally OOB parts and detailed, partly based on factual research and partly pure fantasy.   The rear wells are mostly accurate while the front well is almost entirely fun. 

I used MM acrylic British ocean grey to closely match the darkish grey color seen in the wheels wells in reference photos and MM acrylic metallics for the various lines.  Tamiya clear blue was used for fun in the rear wells and the full complement of Tamiya clear acrylics and MM metallics were used up front.

The engines have false faces, not seen when finished using the kit FOD screens like I did and lots of intake trunking that would require cleanup if seen.  I went ahead and finished off these parts so I can make any necessary fit adjusts easier, later.

The installed cockpit and seat came out pretty good for the kit supplied parts, but now that I have some resin goodies for future Flankers, they look really poor in comparison.  Based on a few hours spent online in various other forums, i decided on RLM 76 for the cockpit color and all of the switches and instrument faces were painted as closely to photos as possible (and as my skills allow).   The seat was helped with a blanking plate on the back of the headrest and a small, shaped piece of flat plastic on the seatback.  The kit PE seatbelts are primitive and stiff and masking tape or Eduard PE would look better.

And finally, a lot of wing surfaces and a small arsenal of Russian air-to-air missiles, still unfinished after 4 days of work.

I'm ready to attach the wings and close the fuselage and unfortunately, it has to be done in that order.   There's alot of seam cleanup in my future, but it's all good.

huge missiles !!! LOL

Great details DRE

Dre

Thats some lovely detail your putting in there Dre!

Bsyamato- yes, they are huge, especially if one is more accustomed to dealing with WWII-era fighters.   I thought that they were ship-killers, but no, they're just 3 kinds of ordinary air-to-air missiles...  the weapons sprues for the Su-30MKK are even better in that they have a nice selection of air-to-air and air-to-ground ordnance (even some old WWII-era looking 500kg iron bombs!).  Lots of room to improve and detail these big boys, but from what I can tell from photos, the real ones are rather unremarkable in detail as compared to US missiles.

That's one full large jar of Tamiya flat white, mixed with Future, that you see there as well.  I had a very difficult time getting the paint to lay down without pulling away from the fins, so it took the better part of this past week to build up all those coats of paint... lots of paint-n-wait time.

Milairjunkie- thanks, that's a few days of detailing with a fine-point brush while the missiles dried.  I could have added a bit more wiring, but I want to get this one done as straight OOB as possible. 

I've got to fill and sand the main wings and flaps tonight before I can mount them inside the fuselage.   Luckily, it appears that I can glue the wings onto the fuselage top to ensure a perfect seam before gluing the bottom on.  I can live with a nasty wing seam underneath and out of the way.

Thanks for looking and commenting.