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And some shots for fun, just to show you how big a Flanker is. That's all for now so far. Stay tuned!

The missiles, pylons and transfer beams.

Then the vertical fins, stabilizers and gear bay covers, etc.

So sorry for being silent for a while. I was busy with my daily work, and also painting this beast(it's huge)! So finally I finished the basic painting and washing job. Next will be another fun part: weathering!! Here again, I share with you my recipe. First, the body.

Thanks Duncan! I only drilled some rivets by 0.2mm drills, on some round/unflat surface where rivets are not round enough. I believe this is the limitation of mold injection direction(vertical), so it appears on all kits which you need to handle a little. Rivets on flat surface are totally fine, deeper than those on Su-35 kits actually. Regarding the D&W landing gears, they are now available on Hobbyeasy site(Hong Kong) and the48ers site, where I think is easier to purchase than buying from China directly. Hope it helps! Yufei

Congratulations on the final outcome! Simply outstanding! Love the difference surface texture especially the bare metal/nozzle area, really inspiring! Look forward to more Flanker builts from you. Yufei

We are in the 3rd day of our Chinese luna new year holidays but I'm processing slowly, since I have a lot of family service to do, for my wife, daughter and all the relationships who keep on visiting our home. Well, at least, the prime is done. I cannot believe if anyone who dislike prime!? Especially the #1500 surfacer——It's so silk-like smoothy and honest: always tell you all the great details on the surface, as well as the flaws you made. Now we are talking: the real fun, painting, begins! Stay tuned!

Now the Flanker is sitting by herself! The D&W 3D print landing gears, thanks to the super strong engineering material and stainless rods inside, are more than strong to take all the weight from this beast! Thanks to the great engineering of the mold cutting, the kit gear bay cover parts can be used to "mask" the gear bays. To be continued…… Stay tuned!

Gear bays and intake/engine related parts were glued. D&W landing gears dry fit——BTW, they fit like gloves! This is how it looks like.

The incredible Detail & Wonder Studio 3D print landing gears!

Gear bay covers and actuators.

Main landing gear bays.

Nose gear bay.

Thank you all for your kind words, mates! I temporally swtich back to aircraft building now, but promise will build more 1/700 ship models this year! Have a nice day! Yufei

Hi guys Sorry for the silence for a while. A bit busy with my daily job at the year beginning, but still try to find some spare time (1-2 hours before sleeping every night) to catch up. Next week we will have 1 week national holidays as of Lunar New Year, hopefully I can try to finish it by then! So the built went on. Engine intake and trunk.

I have to agree with you. The real background is that they do not have enough 2D designers so they have to outsource the instruction sheet design to 3rd party, which limited the final outcome. Nope, I brush paint the windshield inner side, by clear yellow+clear brown. Then before it dries, I used tissue to absorb the liquid, as much as it can. So that the brush painted inner side surface will be very smooth. The reason I used lacquar paint is that it will not have chemical effect with Pledge, which may have with acryl or enamel paint. Have a try!

Unfortuantely lots of details are invisible after you install the "bathtube" into the fuselage. That's why I am not a big fan of some over engineered model kits——just don't want to waste my precious time and energy on those so called "details"... The inner side of both windshield and canopy. I always like to switch the canopy from open to close time by time, so test fit the canopy closing status is very important. So that's all for now, so far so good. Stay tuned!

The cockpit area is finished. Check out how everything looks like, out of box! First, the K-36DM ejection seat. The overall looking of the "bathtube".

Now here comes the colour recipe for small parts. I painted them by airbrush one by one, and glued them after washing. You can also add more weathering after assembling. I believe this is the best way to save time and effort, also to assure the best outcome/result!

Then the cockpit. This is how we can enjoy from a detailed enough plastic cockpit parts, with the help of kit decal, and a bit of your patience.

Deal with the clear parts. Be sure to spend most attention and effort on this part, since windshield/canopy are "eyes" of an airplane!

All parts cleared in 1.5 hours. Ready for paint! That's what we call a modern kit for modern life style.

Hi guys Long time no staring an in-progress thread since I tasted 6 1/700 ship models this year, but finally I'm back to aircraft modelling at the year end. Which one should I restart with? Undoutly, my favorite aircraft, vanila Flanker tooled by GWH which I also participated in R&D work. It's quite unfortunately to know the kits have not recieved in your local market yet due to pandemic, after released for almost 1 year in China mainland. Hope my built will give you some adea about how this kit builds like, not only how it looks like in box. The overall design concept of this kit is take the best balance between proper detail level and easy-building. We omitted some invisible details to save your time and effort, to ensure you can finish the kit in a short time period and enjoy the final result as well. It is based on our experience as modeller, which we would even think how to make the paint job easier when we decide part breaking down method. Is it a less detailed kit than other Flanker? Or it is a kit offering you less stress but more fun, to archive the enough detail you need to enjoy after finishing? It's up to you. First, let's start with the "dirty" part of the built.

Hi mates (I guess)My last ship model finished this year, the PLAN 1/700 Type 054 "Jiangkai I" Class Frigate FF-526 "Wenzhou" by Dodo Model. It is a resin kit, with 3D print small parts and PE parts. The hull is seperately bought from Dodo Model too, which is 3D print part but fitting with resin ship hull was some nightmare... Others are all OOB. Hope you enjoy it! Thanks for watching!

Dear all Thank you very much for your encouragement! It worth every minute of my effort(struggle) worth it. It was never an easy task to build 1/700 ship models, but the outcoming especially when you hold it in your hand to adore it, is the very special moment which bigger scale ship models cannot bring to you. Yes, the adorableness is the main charming point of 1/700 ship models to me. Now temporally I will be back to aircraft built, but hope to come back to shipyard early next year! Have a nice day! Yufei