Flanker Frenzy 2012

Sweet mother of god, watch this Sea Flanker video...  not much room for error.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGnyWgXnZ6g&feature=related

I leaft all the fins off   until after decals.....  I like to do it that way if the fit is decent.......    I generally paint the metal engine heat shields before the main paint job also..... so if I really had to attach the vertical stabs to fill them,  I would....  but I would wait to glue them on after I paint the metal engines..... then tape them up to protect them  

LOL i posted the same video some time ago in the "odd&ends" gone section Dre :D

For the fins i'll try to glue with the rest of the plane and after paint all... with some acrobatics :)

but here the su-34 start:

Will not use the kit cockpit but will scratch all things needed to see the opened access door inside the fron gear well, then starting to cut the bulkheads with the original piece as start template. 

bulkheads needed are two for the back, one with the access door and the other are just as structure just after the ejection seats, also here cutted the front well that is not closed in the parts i've cut out

A rapid dryfit of the rear wells reveal this strange void removed after.. will replace with some evergreen piece

the two bulkheads after lots of cuts and sanding

heres the correct position of first bulkhead, the rigth and the left were i cutted the well must be filled of ... instruments

door hole 

floors and bulkheads 

glued some sprue piece as constrainer 

and here a test of general disposition 

and ready to go in the bed

bsyamato - scratchbuilding the access doors?? Why am I not surprised!? Looking forward to seeing that little addition.

Dre - yikes, I've seen that one before. Nothing like pulling the "Cobra manoeuvre while 10 feet off the deck.

To be honest i throw a coin to choose if build it oob or with some extra detail:

-if the coin falls horizontal i will scratch something

-if the coin falls and remains in verical i opted for oob 

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the coin fortunately falls in horizontal way

Dre what's your opinion about to put on an avatar to your account

bsyamato

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Dre what's your opinion about to put on an avatar to your account

bsyamato - I met him once, that's what he really looks like. Poor guy needs to get more sun...

I had an avatar here once upon a time...  dunno what happened to it.   Maybe I'll find a Pony to put there!!

Vance, more sun?   I actually have the lovely 'sun-dried leather' look going, thankyouverymuch!

Bsyamato- way back in a college math class, we were doing some probability exercise that involved coin flipping- what % does it land heads-up vs. tails sort of thing.... I had a US nickel land on edge twice.  I've also had 6-sided dice with rounded edges land on a corner when rolling D&D stats... 

and I should have a new Avatar by now... enjoy! 

cursed thing isn't showing...

I'm not good with numbers but i used too rolling dice few times with D&D but lots of times with Stormbringer rpg

Check the avatar image size you trying to upload if meets forum requirements if you don't did again :)

Here about the platypus cockpit progress

ip cover thinned and cutted

all things fittings good!

(where's the bed?)

The crew enters the cockpit by way of that little door?

Love the scratchbuilding!

Yep, they climb an access ladder that runs up through the forward landing gear bay.

And dre, your avatar is up now. You're, well, pinker than I imagined!!!

Thanks, but it's just the lighting...

Haven't touched plastic in several days - summer + playing dad-taxi. Need to sit down tonight with something Flankerish.

VanceCrozier

Haven't touched plastic in several days - summer + playing dad-taxi. Need to sit down tonight with something Flankerish.

and i touch few too but finished two kits in a weed  (ok ok was both at 99% completed )

Thanx Dre, i have now the scout on 99% then i think it's time to remove it from workbench so i can close the airfix GB and focus on other (5?) kits i'm working on , platypus included 

here one of resources about the ladder

what's up here? the forum chenged and Dre have an avatar?  LOL

It's strange that Sukhoi added a crew hatch and ladder to wheel well...  but the cockpit redesign seems to demand it unless they made the canopy a clamshell or overhead opening design.   Pretty cool detail to focus on though, Bsyamato- are you going to display this in some fashion that draws attention to this?   Maybe the crew climbing into their aircraft, bound for Glory for the Motherland?

Dre

...   Maybe the crew climbing into their aircraft, bound for Glory for the Motherland?

My mind was more about a woman climbing the ladder and  the pilots looking upward 

Just jokin, living in a sea holiday land, it's summer and too many distractions during the home-work journey 

I was cheated too about the desing of canopy and was sure they was openable as the f-111, but probably the only way to open it is to pull the ejection handles 

I like your idea better!    Someone's Bound for Glory at any rate...

I agree...  i dont think it would be that worn and weathered yet... and it is unlikely that metal would ever show even if it was worn   since primers are such a high quality these days.....and paint doesnt flake off like it did for say a Japanese zero in WW2.....Its a shame the paint peeled because you did a beautiful job of painting and masking......I would sand with micro mesh to flatten out the chips and repaint......   wh at kind of tape are you using??   what kind of paint????

Hi Everyone,

I've just got this thing, do you mind if I join in here ?

Cheers

Tony

kaiyudsai

I agree...  i dont think it would be that worn and weathered yet... and it is unlikely that metal would ever show even if it was worn   since primers are such a high quality these days.....and paint doesnt flake off like it did for say a Japanese zero in WW2.....Its a shame the paint peeled because you did a beautiful job of painting and masking......I would sand with micro mesh to flatten out the chips and repaint......   wh at kind of tape are you using??   what kind of paint????

Kaiusday better way to quote the post you reply :)

As me i use normal coachbuilder tape to mask, but i rarely use masks, as paint using only enamels because i had problem to paintbrush acrilycs. 

Using micromesh to flatten chips will be good to repairs mistkes 

Taxtp just waith the host reply :) good kit there!

A question guys , theres some good kit about the su-35??

Taxtp, glad to have on board!!    

Tony!! We keep hanging out in the stylish neighbourhoods don't we!

A typical "long weekend runaround" happened for me, but SWMBO went to Calais ME on Monday with her mother & sister, leaving me the entire dining room table for the day! (well, for the afternoon I guess, once I did a little houswork) Mostly spent making last cleanups to parts requiring white airbrushing, as I discovered with my Mirage that I DESPISE brush-painting white on missiles.

So, still some airbrushing to be finished tonight hopefully, no pics of the progress, but the work can all be verified by Agent 003....

he taking measures about the correct wings alignment

Vance, I've got a question about your cat. Why does it keep running over and crashing your photos ? It manages to look relaxed too. Very talented moggy.

I had a dog that chewed up a 1/32 Alfa Romeo I was working on once. I don't think it would have felt too good when he got rid of it.

This is a very classy neighbourhood, I've been looking out for a kit to get into this one for a while.

Cheers

Tony

Well that cat doesn't often check out my modeling progress. But she really likes hanging out with her people. And on Monday, I was the only people at the house, so anytime I wasn't in the chair she wandered over to have a look at the progress. Just glad she didn't get into any paint or glue, would have been hard to explain that to the wife...

Vance, nice looking kitty (the Flanker looks good too!!).   Let me share some of the behind-the-scenes folks helping me in this GB...

This is my Director of Research... sneaking a peek at the Dark Side.

Director of Security...  poor guy is just worn out from having slept all night.

and finally, the Art Director thinking inside the box for solutions to a parts mis-match.

Dre, your Director of Research looks very much like my "Agent 002", who is generally on call for quality control...

Agent 002 looks like she's about to 'quality control' that yellow helo right onto the floor.... great expression in the first photo!!  "Is it food?"  

I know that wouldn't dare leave canopy parts that close to the help, they might try to polish them with their teeth.

002, as seen above, likes to look but never touches.

003, seen checking out the Flanker can't be trusted yet. No fear.

Agent 001, aka "The Black Watch" has no interest in my projects since the day she stepped on the lid of a gallon of interior latex & left a small yellow paw print all over the house.

Dre, did you see the vide of the pilot who tried that and the Sea Flanker banked to the left? all the pilot could do was eject and hope the chute opened high enough above the water.....and the ocean floor had yet another decoration lol.