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Go on with nozzles. Due to plastic part thickness, the nozzle rotation angle may not be big enough to satisfy us. But again, it could be SOLVED with very much simple work. For part F2, sand the inner ring to increase inner diameter. Cut the first raised ring on part D5 too. I also sanded the inner part of nozzle padels D10/11/12/13 so that the thickness is much improved to add sharpness. Now the parts are so good to replicate the real AL-41F nozzles. Then the intake/engine pod parts H1 and H2. Nothing special, you just need to cut the front/rear end of install pins by about 0.3mm, and the whole part will fit quite seamless with lower fuselage part B3, almost no gap. Next is vertical fins. Cut the little fresh inside of part B5. And also cut the install pin inside of part B8. There is a WRONG recessed panel line on part B4 by careless tool cutting. Fill and sand it to flat, add back the rivets. The small intakes fit not too well with vertical fins. Use putty and sand with care. All PLAAF Su-35SK obmit the GPS antennas which are on RusAF Su-35S, so I sand the detail off and add panel lines/rivets here. Attention: this change is ONLY for PLAAF version! Do NOT do this if you are building the Russian one.

Hi mates So long time no WIP thread since the ICM MiG-25RBT (yes I will finish it since I've got myself the amazing Amigo model resin nozzles), I'd like to start this thread to build a kit which was researched/designed by myself, as one of the development team member together with Gabor. This is the THIRD time I build this kit, but the first time to paint it. And I will build it as a modeller, not a developer to show all the tips you need to pay attention ahead, to make your all building much easier and more straight forward. Here we go with the upper fuselage part A3. First you need to add some putty to the 2 sides of nose where slight shrinkage could be found, because of the thick plastic with install pin holes there. Mask the rivets/details around to protect them from sending. The camera alike thing needs to be added since front part was obmit due to injection mold limitation. The rear edge of wings is way too thick. Be sure to thinner it. Now we are meeting the most headache part in the whole built. The nozzle padel ring part F2 is too big to meet the engine pods. I have no idea why this happened since I had no problem when assembling T1 version. I guess the tool factory added more details which increased the F2 part diameter. But of course it is NOT UNBUILDABLE just with some 10 min extra work. This is my solution. But the tail boom edge about 0.3mm (blue mark), both upper and lower fuselage. Then it should be like this. No worry about the hole here since it will be unvisible by nozzle padel part F2. And the F2 part fits much much better now. Now moves to lower fuselage part B3. Some raised panels need to be added. Drill holes ahead too. Diameter 0.7mm for 4 holes on nose, and 1.2mm for 6 holes on lower wings.

First SSBN USA vs USSR Thanks for watching! Yufei

Some WIP picutres.

Also finished a while ago and the kit is the long out of production Pit-Road 1/350 Combat Sub series full resin one, with some white metal parts. Exellent model with crisp details and no defect at all. A joy to build.

Comparison between Soveit and US first generation SSBN. Very interesting.

Due to lack of reference I did not spend too much time improve details, but very much enjoyed painting/weathering it. Here are some WIP pictures: I just replaced plastic anntenas with brass rods. http://bmvpzp.img48.wal8.com/img48/17288013_20180402121733/152264269485.jpg http://bmvpzp.img48.wal8.com/img48/17288013_20180402121733/152264269552.jpg http://bmvpzp.img48.wal8.com/img48/17288013_20180402121733/152264269604.jpg http://bmvpzp.img48.wal8.com/img48/17288013_20180402121733/15226426965.jpg http://bmvpzp.img48.wal8.com/img48/17288013_20180402121733/152264269851.jpg http://bmvpzp.img48.wal8.com/img48/17288013_20180402121733/152264269907.jpg http://bmvpzp.img48.wal8.com/img48/17288013_20180402121733/152264269958.jpg http://bmvpzp.img48.wal8.com/img48/17288013_20180402121733/152264270011.jpg

My first finished model this year in Feb. Did not find too much reference so could not make too much modification on the simple Zvezda old kit.

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ICM also made mistakes on belly fins. Panel lines are incorrect on right fin. Original: Corrected: Also you need to add the mechanic chut on left fin bottom side: To be continued... And wish you a happy Rooster new year! (Today is the year end in China Yufei

Another serious question for ICM kit, after a close study, is the wrong shaped intake. The original intake has the curve on top, as ICM designed: But the late enlarged RB intake top is almost straight: It cost me several weekends to correct this. The most time was spent on parts dry fitting and here is the result. Still some panel lines and rivets to be added since ICM also made some errors for them. (Yes as you can read I may cast them as a new product for Fairy Hobby.)

Also found some information about the nose, again, that the middile section diameter is not big enough which caused the nose looks straight but actually there should be a gentle curve(yes very gentle, even not noticable if not told). Since it's too late to cut off the section to make such big surgery now after burge is added, I chose to add some material on the top of nose to catch the correct side view look of the nose. This is how it looks like after reshaping sanding: Surfaced. The culve is not so obvious actually from side view. Also scrathc built the antennas for a standard late type RBT nose: The nose shape matches perfect with the plan. Well maybe the plan is inaccurate but at lease both side view and top view spot on, which indicates the original ICM nose shape, at least th side view, is incorrect:

Thank you! Also look forward to an early R you're building. Actually after carful study, it's much easier to convert it to an early R than a late RBT. Yes, it's the evergreen 1mm plastic sheet and plus some super glue as "putty", then a lot of sanding work. The bulge is also on some late RBs so it really depends on the particular airframe you would like to build. Any way, better to study the real aircraft photos ahead. Thank you for the encouragement. Yes indeed. ICM simpified too much detail on this kit which is a shame, as you can see from the landing gears. It's a bit over for me that there's even not a single rivet on thoese nozzle padels! Yufei Here comes some new progress. Many guys have mentioned that the nosecone and front fuselage fitting is not nice enough which leaves you a big gap or step to sand off. But I would recommend you to dry fit firstly so that you can easily find the problem. 1. The nosecone inner plastic is too thick which bother the fuselage insert properly. 2. The camera bay part also need some edge sanding to prevent the step between nosecone which cause unnecessary sanding work. For 1, just sand off some plastic inside the nosecone where glued by fuselage. For 2, use electric work tape as guide, to sand off the edge a little. Before: After:

I also finished piping the landing gears with adding some more details. The ICM kit is genrally OK for the overall shape, but lacks many details here and there. Nose gear. To be continued...

Hi guys After about 4 years no finishing a kit, finally found something attractive enough for me to start with. Yes it's the new ICM 1/48 MiG-25RBT, my favourite MiG-25 variant rather than the interceptor type. And what's more awesome is that ICM even chose my most favourite RBT scheme, the very famous and honored 47th GRAP "Red 46" which is very famous for her nice performance during Chechen–Russian conflict in 2001. Simply cannot resist the "Hero of Soviet" mark and the colourful communist badges! As being said for the error ICM made unfortnately in the kit, is that the nose cone is actually an early RB but not the RBT, I started with the nose correction. Please be noticed that not ONLY the bulge you need to add, but also you need to flat the right side light panel to smooth, then add some panel lines with rivets. Pictures could tell more easily: After several rounds of reshape/sanding, scribe the panel lines then spray the surfacer for check. To be honest I'm still not satisfied enough about the result since the bulge seems too narrow. But since it's underneath, I chose to live with it somehow.

Thanks a lot for your encouragement guys! Armory ones has softer details and wrong warhead shape for R-40RD. What's most important is that all fins are PEs and need to be adhered to the body which will cause serious strength problem. While the Advanced Modelling ones have fins together with the body as a whole piece part, which saved tons of time and trouble. Yufei

Some details of the R-40. And loaded to the beast. Shall I re-take the photos of the finished? Thanks for watching!

So 5 years passed since this beast was finished, and tons of things happened including all R-40 missiles by Aromory were broken during the ages. I chose the relatively new product from Russia, the Advanced Modelling R-40 full resin missiles with better shape, better details and most important: very solid strength with 4 big fins on the body, really thoughtful. The assembling is very straight forward. All you need to do is remove the cast block carefully and dry fit: you always need to cut somewhere to make the resin cast parts fit better. Most time I spent is for painting as you can see those R-40 missiles are very complicated in colour varieties. Here I share some of my reference from Internet: After repeating masking/painting for a dozen times, I'm quite satisfied with the final result which seems replicate 90% of the real thing.

Hi guys! Being silent for quite a while here after marriage and now it's time to start a new topic. And this is what we have been busy with since early this year, as many of you may have informed, a totally new tooled Fulcrum kit. It's the longest and most complicated project for the maker, and all staff have made so much for it. They all deserve the highest respect, as far as I know. It was me, who suggested this project to the CEO of GWH, and after a long time researching/drawing/tons of correction, finally it has turn out a real touchable kit from just computer graphics, thanks to the hightech molding skills nowadays. And I'd especially sincerely appreciate my Russian friend, Mr. Alexander Drannikov a.k.a. "Skylark" for his great help during kit development. Thank you so much, Alex. It cannot be so close to good without your strict check again and again. No more trust to CAD files after being some hard long waiting by some teaser company? Me too! :woot.gif: So let me show you some pictures of the very FIRST test shot of the kit. And please remember, these are only test shot sprues and more adjustment and details will be added in the next days. So if there're gaps or short injection on the parts, don't get too serious. They'll all be fixed when arriving in your hands. Just like most serious modellers, the accuracy is alaways the most important to a model kit. And that's also what we have made biggest effort during development. Yes, it's far from perfect, but at least to me, it looks like a Fulcrum enough, isn't it? Here I give you some outline shots of the assembled kit. Close shots of the front fuselage. To me, the nose area is the "face" of an aircraft and windshield/canopy is the "eyes" of it. So they are so important that if those things got ruined, the whole model is meaningless indeed. Check out our Fulcrum!

Thank you for all of your nice words! And Tim, your Foxbat looks so amazing! I love the nice touch of shadowing indeed! Cheers, Yufei

Thank you all for your encouragements! I wish I could get more time for modelling ASAP after marriage but life does not seem so easy here in China. People, especially young people like me, have to work very hard to face the competition here. Even after working, we have to learin something new such as MBA, etc. Too many people here you know. Yes, just as Antoine said. I got many information from Tom Cooper during my built, which has still not widely known by public. More detailed information could be found in Tom's article publish on Internationla Airpower Vol.26 which is long OOP unfortunately. You can also check Wiki about Mr. Speicher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Speicher I think till now the best MiG-25 kit is this 1/72 ICM ones. Revell 1/48 one was made in the old age before cold war ending, and the info was very limited at the time. Cheers, Yufei

Thanks a lot, Mike! You're FAST mate! Yufei

More. Thanks a lot, Mike! You're FAST mate! Detail pics: That's all! Thanks for watching and any comments/critiques are badly ! Cheers, Yufei

Hi guys! I have not post my work for a while due to my marriage this March, and now here's the one finished in 2010, published in Japanese magazine Scale Aviation and Air Modeller. Here is the in-progress thread FYI: MiG-25PD Foxbat IrAF "US NAVY Hornet Killer" Now comes with the pics. Hope you like the beast!

Exact my thoughts, buddie. But life is colourful, modelling is just one aspect, right? Thanks again for all of your encouragements.