It’s been a while since I posted an update here, but anyway, this is some of the stuff I got almost done recently.
The first photo shows the inner frame of one of the feet, I…
Exhaust nozzle redone to satisfaction, weathered & installed. Airframe touch-up completed. All but landing gear, pylons and ordnance has been gloss coated and curing for 1 week. So no WIP on those, but on later parts.
It’s not done yet. Next would be panel line wash & then decals, and then flat coat. Finally final touch-up & weathering, then flat coat again. The metallic were Alclad, but the primer wasn’t good enough. Alclad ate into the plastic a bit. On top were acrylic metallics. I wanted to try layering Alclad with the final being copper. Next…[Read more]
Nose cone, wheel well doors, undercarriage fins primed, mottled and painted. Landing gear painted, but needs touch-up. Vertical stabilizers’ white strips & horizontal stabilizers’ heat shields re-done.
Exhaust nozzles primed, painted & weathered. I’d prefer to gloss coat everything except ordnance and let it cure for 1 week before a panel line wash & weathering.
Bit of progress, hindered by conflicting paint suggestions in Hasegawa, Begemot (Russian decals) & photos of actual bird. Even Hasegawa’s Su-33 01565 is inaccurate in some…
It seems that the horizontal stabilizers have may white strips. At least in one of the online photo of the actual bird. #81. The lighting of the photo may result in different colors.
You can see the effect of mottling. Tear & wear. My first ever. Not good enough. Noodle-masking took hours. Topside twice and whole underside. Otherwise, overspray may destroy the underside. Gonna touch up before painting exhaust. Still a long way to finish.
FYI, Russian su-33 fighters all have the same color schemes, but slightly different patterns. I’m doing #72 by Begemot decals. Every manufacturer is doing #80, supposedly the newest.
Also, su-33 is derived from su-27. They both look almost identical except su-33 has nose wings.
The pegs and holes in the kit’s exhaust were sanded off to make room for the long exhaust nozzles. The original exhaust nozzles are too short, compared to the real ones. The resin ones are quite right. For comparison, the left one is Hasegawa and the right one is Aires.
Legs almost done construction wise.
The armor parts can open and close, the knee guard and the ankle guard can move up and down.
Now it’s time to make new feet.
Taking in consideration Moldrunner’s comment on my last update, I’m showing a sketch I did for my Silver Blaze.
There are some parts with almost no details, but that’s because I haven’t decided how the panel lines and option parts will be yet.
The legs might look a bit weird, because I just drew one side, copied and inverted it to be symmetrical.