Flanker Frenzy 2012

Alrighty, end of a long weekend & showing short of what I'd hoped for progress... figures!!  Picking up where I'd left off, masking pattern for the tail surfaces. (Poor lighting in pics, that is actually my pale blue colour, not primer)

The assistants. Agent 002, the trustworthy one...


Agent 003, uhhhhh, not so much.

The grey on, not bad but thinking I should have lightened it a little. (Tamiya acrylic)


And the blue... ended up using Testors enamels, light blue, no mixing. Is it crazy enough to work?!? Needed one more coat after this picture.


The tape... THE TAPE!!!!

Here she is, needs some touch ups though.





Ahhhj, such fine lines, unlike the slightly more, well, distinct looks on the MS406.

And then I found some time to start the afterburners. Trying out some Valejo acrylics here.

Then I popped open the Valejo acrylics for the NMF goodies, heat-plates, afterburners, gun surround...

bsyamato

little progress, a dark brown washing on cockpit before to continue details painting 

Ahhh - this one has seen some wear!

little progress, a dark brown washing on cockpit before to continue details painting 

Yep, noticed the one up/one down issue last night when I saw something 'not right' about the way it sitting on the box.   I might try a little warm air and a cooling form to fix this... or not depending on how bad it looks once the rest of it is assembled.    

Dre

Vance, you live a storied life.   

I didn't get the fuselage closed last night as I remembered to work on the two nacelles before adding them to the underside.   I discovered that I have a weird wing warping going on- one wing droops down and the other is bent upwards...  it's not a result of gluing them incorrectly onto the fuselage piece but probably from the sprues getting bent during storage.   Damn it, if it's not one thing then it's another...

Well things turned out to be not so bad though. With a school population of +/- 1800, there are typically a lot of kids there even after-hours for various groups. Local fire department was taking no chances, but all were allowed back in within 45mins. Just enough to completely throw my plans. Ah well, c'est la vie.

One wing up, one wing down?? Must have been a storage issue. Are they already mounted??

Vance, you live a storied life.   

I didn't get the fuselage closed last night as I remembered to work on the two nacelles before adding them to the underside.   I discovered that I have a weird wing warping going on- one wing droops down and the other is bent upwards...  it's not a result of gluing them incorrectly onto the fuselage piece but probably from the sprues getting bent during storage.   Damn it, if it's not one thing then it's another...

Dre

For some reason I can see an Estonian crime syndicate stealing rear-view camera systems from western European cars to sell to the Russian aircraft factories...  

"Da, is good camera.   Is from new Cadillac."

LOL!

Well I was PLANNING on sitting down to an empty house last night. Then I got a phone call at the office from my daughter: "I'm OK, but the school is on fire!"

HUH?!?!?

smoke & fumes from the chemistry department, evacuated the school in the middle of her cheerleading practice time, all the clothes etc left in the lockers, bunch of kids wearing shorts & t-shirts huddled outside in near-freezing temps.  Good times had by all!

I might get the fuselage closed up on the Su-27UB C tonight...  I attached the main wings to the top half the other night to get a good, solid join.

For some reason I can see an Estonian crime syndicate stealing rear-view camera systems from western European cars to sell to the Russian aircraft factories...  

"Da, is good camera.   Is from new Cadillac."

i'm sure that su-34 have some rear camera to watch the tail :D

Lookin lots of 34 videos but in none i see a cobra manouver .. but agility does not seems too different from a normal (..normal.. LOL ) flanker.

Depends on the audience!! Heyyyyyy - fermis is lurking the Flanker GB? Joining the frenzy?

Oh my, that didn't sound right, did it??

Dre

I can imagine getting a face-full of Pugachev's Cobra if you follow a Flanker too closely.

...dirty!!!....

I can imagine getting a face-full of Pugachev's Cobra if you follow a Flanker too closely.

Dre

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I guess that the Russians aren't too worried about rear-ward visibility in the Platypus?

Just like driving a Ferrari, it doesn't matter where you've been, or who you've already passed...

Ah, but I do have the complete family (so far as has been produced in 1/32)...

I guess that the Russians aren't too worried about rear-ward visibility in the Platypus?

Just to complete the family in all scale Dre 

Here more work on the su-34

Two layers of black humbol

first step of paint on the instruments and cockpit details

at the next!

The list price of Eduard's 1/48 is too close to Trumpeter's 1/32's, why build a smaller model?

There isn't enough plastic on those mini's to make a decent snack, let alone a meal, for the big Flanker.

bsyamato

Vance you triyng to put on the flanker the risiko scheme  insane masking work!

Dre ..so you missing only the 48 and 144 flankers?

It should be good practice for the "lakes pattern" that I want to use on my Saab Viggen!

Maybe Dre's 1/32 Flanker ate the smaller missing Flankers...

Vance you triyng to put on the flanker the risiko scheme  insane masking work!

Dre ..so you missing only the 48 and 144 flankers?

Ahhh the migraines. Yep, I'm good for maybe 4-5 good ones per year. It sucks, but it is what it is.

I should be alright keeping cat hair out of the tape as it'll go right from cutting mat to model surface, and cats never jump on tables. Right???  

Hey, no 1/48 Flanker in that family photo!!!

And now that I'm actually looking at the pattern closely, I think, MAYBE, I'll be able to mask off the pale blue base colour with tape, then cover off the "2nd colours" with only post-its etc., I don't think there are many spots where colour #2 and #3 actually border each other. May not be tooo bad after all.

Vance, sorry to hear of such a weekend and to top it off with a migraine...  not fun.

Your masking plan looks clever- a paint-by-letters jigsaw puzzle.   Good luck keeping cat hair out of all that  tape (ask me how I know).

Since this is Flanker Frenzy, may I present some eye candy too?

a family photo with Trumpeter 1/32 Su-27B, Italeri 1/72 Su-27B and Trumpeter 1/350 Su-27K

remember all those missiles I did months ago?   No?  This might help.....

In order to get this across the line, I've decided to go gear up.  I have a lot of gap filling and blending to do on the doors before happy paint times.

Alrighty, Saturday was exhausting & basically a washout. Sunday began with a migraine. Methinks I'll be making this coming long weekend extra long. I did get some tape work done...

This is the process. Marking guide scaled up to actual size. A bunch of tape set up on my cutting mat, guide taped down over top of the masking tape. Sharp Exacto knife cutting along the pattern, one section at a time, peel the paper away, park it with pen & trace the outline so I have a better idea of what's going where.


And Sunday night I marked my last spot & thought "DONE!"... then instantly remembered I haven't set up the tailfins yet!


Ahh well, getting there.

Nice work bsyamato, I'm always amazed at what you are able to build at such small sizes. Well Dre, I was too ambitious with my weekend gggoooooaaaaaalllll! My wife was in charge of 2 separate fundraisers for her cheerleading team, leaving me to run around driving like a taxi every 2 hours, trying to squeeze meals & housework in between.

Then.... awoke early this morning to a full-on migraine. Advil, extra sleep & a little shot of caffeine seems to have eventually shaken me free.  Late supper this evening will be followed by Flanker work unless something....UNEXPECTED! pops up. Most of my masking has been cut now, just need to mix my 2 final colours & start applying tape.

Nothing like getting a new model in the mail.

bsyamato

CallSignOWL

just got my mini-flanker and I must say it is toooo CUTE!!!

A picture with the finished flanker is needed 

haha, Ill do that once I go home again. :)

CallSignOWL

just got my mini-flanker and I must say it is toooo CUTE!!!

A picture with the finished flanker is needed 

Nice work on the beasts Dre!! 

few updates on the 34.. i returned slow 

Added some roughness to the walls with cigarettes box inner paper 

Used one of xtracolor dedicate lanker colors for the cockpit ; the x603 blue gray, the picture have an unreal green tone , dunno why .. in reality no green tone is visible ,just a ligh blue grey

imperfection on the canopy will be removed before to close all 

just got my mini-flanker and I must say it is toooo CUTE!!!

Goooooooaaaaaallllll!  (sorry, I was just shooting a high school football game..)

Beer should be a required element, at least to pad out the technical score.