j8kob_F Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Hello! Time to start another build and continue the African theme. This time I’m going to build an Ivorian SU-25UB used by the Ivorian Air Force (FACI) in 2004 against rebel forces and I’m planning to build red 20. The kit is KP's SU-25UB/UBK and it's their Masterline version so it comes with a really nice multimedia cockpit too. Here's a good link if you're interesting in reading about the SU-25 in FACI service LINK. Lastly I’ll round of with a picture of the nice shark mouth of a FACI SU-25 and a couple of pictures of the cockpit that I have painted. Feel free to comment! Jakob 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvy5 Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Su-25, my love! He started well, but you need to modify a little color. I try to find my old photos of UB version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Jakob, SUPER looking cockpit et al. Will be back to see your lovely progress. Good luck and keep up the good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 A great aircraft in an interesting colour scheme, good choice. Nice work on the cockpit. I will be watching this with interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaker Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Lovely work so far, I've got the OEZ single seat and I really must beat it into submission at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j8kob_F Posted December 20, 2014 Author Share Posted December 20, 2014 First of all thank you guys for the very kind comments! Work on the SU-25 continues and today I focused on the front wheel well which OOB is completely void of any detail what so ever. From the beginning I had decided that I wouldn't do any work on it since I thought that not much would be seen but seeing that the SU-25 sits rather high on the nose wheel you can actually see quite a lot of the underside of the fuselage and thus also the wheel wells. The added detail is Eduard etch and wire, the brackets holding the wires are strips of PE. Here is a couple of pictures of the result and feel free to comment: Jakob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Jacob.. Keep It coming.. LOVELY work.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j8kob_F Posted December 20, 2014 Author Share Posted December 20, 2014 Jacob.. Keep It coming.. LOVELY work.... Thank you HOUSTON! I've primed the wheel well now and it looked good enough so a little painting and it's time to install the cockpit, wheel wells and close the fuselage up. Jakob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j8kob_F Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 Work continues. I've painted up the front wheel well and glued it into the fuselage, it isn't perfect but since you won't se much of it anyway in the end i doesn't really matter. All the colors are vallejo air airbrushed and brushpainted and the wash is Flory black wash. A couple of pics: Jakob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Jakoib, SUPER work ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Fantastic scratch built detail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j8kob_F Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 Thank you so much guys, a little wiring does make a difference. Next step is adding the cockpit, that i'm really looking forward to. Jakob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radleigh Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Fantastic, I'm building one of these for the lesser forces GB soon, so thanks for the link.... I'll look forward to seeing this progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j8kob_F Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 (edited) Thanks man! Yeah you just gotta love The shark mouth scheme, at least i do. There are actually a few airforces in Africa that uses the su-25. The hard thing is finding decals to use, i'm going to use decals for the single seater "red 02" and switch the numbers around. If i was you i would take a look at an su-25 from Chad, they have a really nice camo i think. They Come as two seaters as well. Jakob Edited December 23, 2014 by j8kob_F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Very nice work on that nose-wheel bay, the added plumbing makes it look much more realistic. I agree with you about the nice schemes out there for the Su-25, there are some really nice looking African and Middle Eastern examples. I think that there is a set from Authentic Decals which has some nice ones on it, including Chad if I remember right. Keep up the great work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j8kob_F Posted December 24, 2014 Author Share Posted December 24, 2014 Very nice work on that nose-wheel bay, the added plumbing makes it look much more realistic. I agree with you about the nice schemes out there for the Su-25, there are some really nice looking African and Middle Eastern examples. I think that there is a set from Authentic Decals which has some nice ones on it, including Chad if I remember right. Keep up the great work. First of thanks! And you are right about the Authentic Decals sheet, there are markings for a Chad bird on there. That is the sheet that i'm using. A Word of warning though, something has gone wrong when they made them so the white has yellowed and if you don't apply liquid decal film on the decals they will break into tiny pieces when you place them in water. Cheers and merry christmas! Jakob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j8kob_F Posted December 26, 2014 Author Share Posted December 26, 2014 Another quick update, I’ve glued the cockpit to the fuselage. The IPs are just held by blue tack so that is why they are a little crooked. Will try to close the fuselage up today to, looking forward to it. Please enjoy the pictures: Jakob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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