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.