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Venezuelan Sukhoi SU-30 MK2


kike_gt

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Great job painting that intricate wheel well detail! And the Krypton looks fabulous too! Looking forward to the cockpit.

 

Mike

 

Thanks Mike! for the Kryptons I used this pic as a guide, since there are several kinds of paint schemes for these missiles

 

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Posted here just for illustration purposes and credits to the author

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Sweet build coming together....I don't know a whole lot about jets, but builds like yours help me learn ! Great stuff.

 

Joe

 

The whole idea about posting it here! some may someday need the info I can provide this time, even if sometimes you feel like talking to yourself, you know at some point the info posted is gonna be helpful for somebody, or at least that's what I keep saying to myself!

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the cockpit is ready to go in. maybe not my best one, but as I said, detail wasn't that great and maybe a bit of lack of skills lol!

 

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I had to sand a bit of the lower corner of the front cockpit to clear it from the gear bay, just a little bit and the fit was great!

 

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The fit of the new front part is fairly good, but I'm not sure how to face this, should I glue the front part first or after the rear part of the upper fuselage?? opinnions

 

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Then one of the biggest challenges for me with this build, is to seal that joint in such a prominent spot! kinda hard to let it like this and pretend is a panel line, isn't it?

 

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Should I add a piece of plastic behind that gap to retain CA or putty? or just try to fill it like that?

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"wiggle room"?? sorry you lost me there! I'm not that good in English hehehe

Wiggle room, just a saying to say leaving enough room to move things around a little.....Harv

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Well it looks like the gap is pretty much gone and there's only a couple of touch ups to do! the Quickboost resine nose really makes a difference on this kit's profile!

 

My photobucket is acting up so I'm not able to post comparisson shots, but so far I'm happy with the result!

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I have a bit of a problem with decals.... I don't know how to make them fit, we've seen they are not match for the kit's fins nor the Wolfpack fins, maybe they are designed for the HobbyBoss kit, anyway, they are supposed to go all the way donwn and up the fin because the big blue 5 makes the border between red and yellow, well it doesn't happen, if I fit them to the top they don't cover the lower part of the fin, take a look to the fins and a dummy of the decals

 

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The fins are supposed to look like this

 

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and like this

 

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What would you do? How would you make the transition from red to yellow without having that blue in the middle? Should I fit the upper part or the lower one?

 

I really don't know how to approach this issue...

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i think I resolved a third of the problem I draw what is supossed to be a mask for the finns

 

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Not perfect but nothing else is, so I'm pretty happy with what I have

 

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i guess it's time to mask and paint! and see what it gives!!!

 

Wish me luck!

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