Scale32 Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 Looking really nice Brad, cockpit looks great also. Cheers Bevan BradG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 It´s coming together really fine now! Good work, Brad! Stefan BradG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradG Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 Work continues on the other wing now. Once everything was dried and sanded back, I thought I'd attach the wings before slotting on all the other parts. Fit on both is again tight, perhaps too tight and it does well to shave a little off some of the mating surfaces to get a better fit. Still ti will require some work on the lower joint. But it is a Trumpeter kit so I was expecting the fit to be "good enough". There is actually a saying for that in Chinese industry that roughly translates to "close enough", which makes sense if you've ever built Trumpeter. Oh look, with a little bit of wiggling and perhaps selective words being said, the wing fits reasonably well. I haven't even looked at the weapons and pylons, there's probably more parts in those than there is in the aircraft itself. daveculp, Phantom2, Out2gtcha and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Nice work, there! Stefan BradG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradG Posted September 19, 2019 Author Share Posted September 19, 2019 I decided to glue the gun covers and upon looking at more pictures, it appears that the main nose wheel door is usually closed when the aircraft is on the ground. Trumpeter would have you glue it open, so I cut off the mounting tabs and closed it. With the flaps up, you need to install the correct actuator arms and shrouds. The shouds for the flaps up don't have any real detail inside and I have seen pictures where you can see the attachment point and arm from the flap, so I cut them off the other parts. I think I may have left a little too much arm showing, but that's ok. daveculp, gmctaggart and blackbetty 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 Looks really good, Brad! BUT, can you mount the front gear now, with the main door closed? Stefan BradG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradG Posted September 19, 2019 Author Share Posted September 19, 2019 9 hours ago, Phantom2 said: Looks really good, Brad! BUT, can you mount the front gear now, with the main door closed? Stefan I probably should have test fitted that. Eh I'll work it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 15 hours ago, BradG said: I probably should have test fitted that. Eh I'll work it out. Good Luck! Stefan BradG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradG Posted September 20, 2019 Author Share Posted September 20, 2019 12 minutes ago, Phantom2 said: Good Luck! Stefan It's all good, I tested tonight and it fits no problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 Then I might try it myself! I had a check in my books last night and it seems like the gear doors were always closed on the ground, both main and front. Cheers! BradG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaker Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 Yeah, they are closed normally. it's a pain in the arse to mount them all correctly, I did it on mine! BradG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradG Posted October 15, 2019 Author Share Posted October 15, 2019 Had a little bit of a break from this as I finished off some other models on the bench and started back at cricket. Only made 16 on the weekend, dragged a wide one back onto off stump...ugh. Anyways, sanding sanding and more sanding then a little more scribing...probably need a bit more but it's getting there. I decided to put the main gear legs and doors on before painting. I've looked at a lot of pictures and could not come up with a definitive colour for the wheel wells or the gear legs. Some were just blue, others silver other a mixture of colours. Well, blue works for me. Fitting these is fiddly and I did try to close the two doors that are normally closed when the aircraft is on the ground, but this was going to involve a fair bit of cutting and hacking, thus I decided not to try. If you want to be correct for the Su-25, only the inner rear gear door is open when the aircraft is on the ground (usually). Ahhh ordnance. I reckon half this kit is weapons. There's 10 hard points, I've decided on large drop tanks for the inner hard points and the outer will mount a single K-60 air to air missile each. As for the others, well I'll stick as many bombs on it as I can. You get missiles and rocket pods as well. I think there''s napalm tanks too. These are the outer missile racks and launchers. Out2gtcha, johncrow, LSP_Kevin and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradG Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 (edited) Ah Trumpeter....while looking at the ordnance load outs, I've just realised that Trumpeter don't actually give you the correct outer K-60 hard point. They give you the launch rail, but not the hard point to attach it to, despite having the holes already in the wings for them. So the parts in the above picture will not fit the kit. This kind of thing just tells me that Trumpeter are careless when producing their models. Now I have the choice of spending money to get the proper ones, modifying something in the kit to mount the K-60's or just leaving them off. Edited October 16, 2019 by BradG Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikka Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 zacto makes them i think ? BradG and Out2gtcha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 23 minutes ago, kikka said: zacto makes them i think ? and quickboost although Zactomans is much nicer IMO BradG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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