Ukrainan Su-27UB Flanker C, 1/48 GWH

[Eagle Driver]

Serious progress!

[Aigore]

10 hours ago, Eagle Driver said:

Serious progress!

Thanks Eagle Driver

[Aigore]

The Sunday update is here.

The intakes....

Oh...became a wee bit bigger update than anticipated...I guess I was in the hot zone!

 

First off I glued in the airbrake shut...afterwards I discovered there should have been an insert in the air brake but it fit anyways

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I glued the air ducts...

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm going for a open intake this time and thus the gills are shut.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And they fit gloriously...

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Airducts needed a bit of putty on the inside though.

 

 

 

 

 

Painted the fan front in Alclad Stainless Steel and put down a little wash and glued them together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I painted the big door in the intake with Alclad Stainless Steel as well.

 

 

 

 

 

Now it was timne to sand the air ducts...

 

 

 

 

 

And primed with Alclad Gray Primer

 

 

 

 

 

 

The colour on the inside of the air intakes and airducts are a wee bit tricky. Mostley they are aluminium treated with a yellowish-tanish varnish. I tried to make a mix that seemed plausible with one part vietnam tan, one part Light Stone and one part light gray.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Put the fanfronts in place...I doubt they'll ever see the light of day in there

 

 

 

 

Now for some masking, I thought it would be easier to paint the intakes before assembly...since I didn't do that on my last Flanker and paid the price.

 

 

 

 

 

Aparently the Ukraine AF had their own colors...luckily I had them 

 

 

 

 

First some gray primer and a bit of my usual squiggles with Tamyia XF-63. 

 

 

 

 

And put down the light blue.

 

 

 

 

 

Then more masking and some gloss black on the lower intake lip...

 

 

 

 

Followed by Alclad Polished Aluminium

 

 

 

 

 

Looking good

 

 

 

 

Glued in the intake doors.

 

 

 

 

 

Since a part of the outside of the air ducts will show through the wheel bays I painted them in the pale primer colour I mixed earlier.

 

 

 

 

 

And glued in the airduct into the nacelle.

 

 

 

 

 

Somewhere in there the fan fronts should be

 

 

 

 

 

 

Primed and painted the area around the intakes on the lowert fuselage....a bit easier to do now rather than later.

 

 

 

 

 

Then I added a thin gray wash on the intakes trying to bring out those details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then it was time to glue the intake nacelles into the lower fuselage.

 

 

 

 

A decent fit, a little gap att the forward section but that's all.

 

 

 

 

 

And there the both intakes are in place and this session is done.

Next time there will be fuselage closing

 

 

 

 

Cheers!

[Eagle Driver]

Intakes rule!

[Aigore]

2 hours ago, Eagle Driver said:

Intakes rule!

Thanks

[SwissFighters]

Just found this build thread. Great work! I remembered half way through that I also followed your work on the Viggen...its always nice to come across high-quality builds. I was quite surprised to discover that this is 1/48 scale...can't get over how big these planes are!

[Aigore]

4 hours ago, SwissFighters said:

Just found this build thread. Great work! I remembered half way through that I also followed your work on the Viggen...its always nice to come across high-quality builds. I was quite surprised to discover that this is 1/48 scale...can't get over how big these planes are!

Thanks

yeah, it isn't much shorter than a Viggen in 1/32 

[jeroen_R90S]

Looks great!

It's probably heresy here, as much as I like working on my 1/32 Intruder, for me 1/72 and 1/48 are better suited to the big jets

This kit looks really, really good! [edit] your work on it, too!

Edited April 20, 2022 by jeroen_R90S

[Aigore]

On 4/20/2022 at 9:46 AM, jeroen_R90S said:

Looks great!

It's probably heresy here, as much as I like working on my 1/32 Intruder, for me 1/72 and 1/48 are better suited to the big jets

This kit looks really, really good! [edit] your work on it, too!

Thanks jeroen

1/32 stuff really can get a bit unwieldy when doing large models.... 

[Aigore]

Friday is upon us and here is the update!

 

The Dip

OK where were we?

 

Right I glued the intakes to the lower fuselage half.

in fact there was a small gap along the inside so I puttied it up real quick with acrylic putty and pulled off the excess with cotton swab.

 

 

 

 

 

Then I glued in these small things into the upper fuselage..suppose they have something to do with the horizontal stabs.

 

 

 

 

 

Then it was time to close the fuselage. The fit is good but I have to pull the fuselage to shape and fix them in position with clamps and tape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then the stinger, important to use the right part here since it differes between Russian and Ukrainian flankers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

After that I glued the vertical stabs together.

 

 

 

Right, next for the windshield.

There is a seamline across the center, I first scraped off the line with a knife.

 

 

 

 

 

Then I sanded with 1000 grit pads...

 

 

 

 

 

2000 grit....

 

 

 

 

 

And 4000 grit.

 

 

 

 

 

Then wet polishing with a 6000 cloth......duh put the wrong one in the picture

 

 

 

 

 

 

8000....

 

 

 

 

 

 

And finally 12000 grit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next Tamiya Polishing Compound....

 

 

 

 

 

 

And a dip in Future....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now I want the wind shield tinted.

I mix 1 part Tamiya Clear Yellow and one part Tamiya Smoke....

 

 

 

 

 

Then I carefully shoot dry coats until I'm happy with the tint.

 

 

 

 

 

Now a bit of polishing with Tamyia compund to bring back the shine...

 

 

 

 

 

 

And a final dip i n future to get that crystal clearity Oh I did the canopy too but no tinting.

 

 

 

 

Cheers!

[Aigore]

BTW, I've also started a twin MiG-29 build on Patreon, it's a comission build of Ghost of Kyiv and it is a Patreon exclusive.

If you feel so inclined you are most welcome to support and follow me on Patreon.

Cheers

[Aigore]

And it's Sunday and time for another update.

A bit of this and that.

 

Mostly just adding stuff, this is more like assembly than building to be frank.

The fuselage seam isn't Tamiya perfect but no real issue.

 

 

 

 

 

Added some protruding bumps to the nacelles.

 

 

 

 

Cleaned the seam on the vertical stabs a bit...just scraping lightly.

 

 

 

Put a bit of ballast in the nosecone.

 

 

 

 

 

Readied these small tubes to go into the wheel wells.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Added the HUD projector lens.

 

 

 

 

 

Added the outer parts of the wheelwells...they fit with a satisfying POP.

 

 

 

 

 

Put the leading edge slats together and glued them into place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the flaps..

 

 

 

And lastly I put the nosecone into place...  next I will do some minute filling and sanding to get those perfect seams.

 

 

 

 

That's all for today folks

Cheers!

[scvrobeson]

Looks great!  One quick thing, I don't believe there is a panel line where. the two slat parts come together. I believe that longitudinal line should be filled in.

 

 

 

Matt. 

[Aigore]

1 hour ago, scvrobeson said:

Looks great!  One quick thing, I don't believe there is a panel line where. the two slat parts come together. I believe that longitudinal line should be filled in.

 

 

 

Matt. 

Thanks for the heads up, Matt

[Aigore]

The Friday update.

 

Exhausting....

The stinger tip attached.

 

 

 

Stuff ready for primer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I primed the insides of the wheel bay doors in gray Primer and then painted them red with Akan

 

 

 

 

 

And the fins were primed in Gray and then polished with a 2000 grit pad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While the primer cured I cleaned the exhaust parts and readied them for primer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I primed the outer exhaust parts in gloss black. and the exhaust tunnel in gray.

 

 

 

 

 

Then I painted the exhausts in Airframe aluminium as a base for the weathering.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next I painted the inner parts in Tamyia XF-73

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then I finished todays session with clear coating everything so I can start playing with washes tomorrow or so.

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers!