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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. 😉 I have summarized the building progress and made a video for it. Watch it on Youtube if you are interested: 【4K】Sukhoi Su-27 "Flanker-B" heavy fighter 1/48 GWH complete building record (7 months into 1 hour!) 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

Last: the pre-annoucement of my next work. Thanks for watching and hope you enjoy it! Yufei Mao

Some shots of the details. Dodo model kit is indeed a great one! The overall looking of the work.

Hi mates! This is my currently finished work: the 1/700 PLAN Type 918 "Wolei" Class Mainlayer 814 "LiaoYang". The kit is a full resin one with some 3D print parts and 1 PE sheet, by Dodo Models. Since it was originally a waterline kit, I also ordered the 3D print hull to add on. The colour scheme is the late 80s PLAN ones which I personally love very much. It took me about one month to finish it(26th Sep - 4th Oct 2021).

Thank you all on behalf of my friend! He will start building the Flyhawk new HMS Hood next week... Let us expect the outcome!

Thank you all and sorry for my belayed reply! I will find some time to upload the WIP pictures. Yufei

The actual size of the model, compared with my hand. Please let me know if you are interested to see WIP pictures(I selected around 100 photos!). Thanks for watching and have a nice day.

Some more overall shots. One of the fun in 1/700 scale is you can easily compare the size of any ship with another. So this is the comparison between 40,000 ton class and 10,000 ton class. And comparison between RN type 22 firgate. Comparison between modern destroyer and WW2 destroyer.

Although the overall design is quite simple, actually there are lots of small details and add-on. It cost me much more time than expected, but simply not so visible after installing, which is indeed quite annoying... Now move to details. The lifebuoy is colored with fluorescent paint, just for fun. The 130mm main gun is fixed with 2mm magnets as usual and can rotate smoothly. It is also common practice for bridge window glass to use transparent plastic sheet to make the glass window effect. The VLS is sprayed according to the actual photo. Add the life raft during sea trials, increase the details and highlights Some life rafts for sea trials are also added to the middle of the hull. The weapon deck is colored according to the actual object, the non-slip layer is dark gray, and the heat-resistant layer is lighter medium gray. Helicopter deck is painted by masking tape according to actual photos. Windshield and windows of Z-20 is painted by chrome silver with clear blue coated, to replicate the transparency effect.

Hi mates！ This is my latest work finished last weekend, the PLAN 1/700 Type 055 Destroyer "NanChang". The kit was a present from Flyhawk boss, when we visited them in the end of this May, so I would like to build it out to show my appreciation. The type 055 destroyer is one of the biggest, and so called most capable destroyers in the world. The full displacement is around 12,000 ton which is even bigger than most WW2 heavy cruisers. So no wonder why US side categorize it as "cruiser". This is the third ship named as "NanChang" which is the city PLA started their initial revolution. The hull number 101 was used by PLA very first destroyer "AnShan" which is actually a second hand Soviet navy WW2 destroyer. So you can see the high expectation to this ship from the combination of "NanChang" and "101". I started the kit on 11th July and finished on 5th September, less than 2 month all in. Kit: Sphyrna Models HTP7001 Accessories: Some of the metal parts from Sphyrna Models HTP7001S Delux ver. Shipyard J7015 super detail set Steel Shield 3D print parts Orange Hobby 3D print H/PJ-11 1130 CIWS Hunter pre-cut masking tape Northstar 3D print salor figures Dodo Models 3D print Z-20 helicopter I chose the state during sea trials, and some life rafts were added to the deck. As a new ship, the equipment of "NanChang" is still being upgraded, such as the photos taken by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force this year. Some new antennas and radars have been added to the second deck, so you only need to conduct research and production at a certain point in time. As a large ship designed for stealth effect, its details are bound to be simple and monotonous. How to highlight its texture and heaviness under the premise of ensuring the neatness is a major problem in this coloring and obsolescence. After regular stain washing and repeated adjustments of the filter several times, I finally got a relatively satisfactory result.

Thank you both! I understand people usually prefer WW2 ships since they look much more complicated especially with the background stories behind, make them even more charming. But at least Russian ships could offer you very similar "complicated look" as well. And they do look quite "evil"...which is so charming to me. Unfortunately with more and more "stealth" design in place, even modern Russian ships look so boring today...

Thank you very much for the nice comments! Yes I believe 1/700 scale is not some kind of "everyone's scale" since it does require some good eyesight and great patience, with some practice and experience to reach the goal. I myself also picked up mine by building 3-4 ships and I can feel my own enhancement one by one. I believe if you built at least 3 kits, you will also have some feeling like that which will defintely encourage you to challenger bigger projects. Hope my advice helpful. Cheers!

Thank you all again for the bump up. It does worth the time and effort invested for her. Hi Andrew Same as you I believe these massive Russian monsters did leave so strong impression in one's childhood that it become some kind of complex to collect them afterwards. Although this kind of design may not be so "successful" according to Western side evaluation, but the looking of this weapon is simply un-comparabled by any Western ships. I do hope 1/350 scale new tool kit will be released in near future. Will try to combine some of them but it may take some time, after all the built is a bit too long(1 year)... Thanks again!

Congratulations on the splendid finish! And so happy my experience could be helpful for you guys. Yes it was a very tiring built, considering the huge size and extremely complicated painting/weathering process of this aircraft. But still your final result turned out to be so high level and makes all of your time and effort worth it! I think the trick to do a "cleaner paint" could be the paint type: that is why I'm still a die-hard lacquer paint mania, haha! Congratulations again, and take a good rest(from Flanker built) but really look forward your next Flanker built(once again? what about a Su-27?) Have a nice weekend! Yufei

Thank you all for your encouraging comments! It cost my friend around 1 year to build it, and 1 month for me to finish up. But after all it well worth the time and effort. And only after building it, you can understand why Russian categorize it as a cruiser instead of a carrier——the massive weapons on the deck, combined with the busy flight deck, makes it looking so extinguish and unique, far more interesting than normal aircraft carriers. Now you talked about the name plate——yes actually it was 0.05mm laser cut brass plate, customized made by CEO of Orange Hobby. It is a pity there are still no good kits or accessories for Kiev/Minsk at current stage. I do hope any one could consider to renew those 2 ships(both in China now!) in 350 or 700 scale. By the way, Kiev in Tianjin has much much better condition than Minsk, since it is very good maintenance by China retired former military staff. So photos of Kiev has much higher accurate reference value than Minsk, if you want to build the ships. Yufei

Finally, the acknowledgment part: Thanks to my friend Yang Liu for his meticulous built. Thanks to Mr. Yanwu Deng, CEO of Orange Hobby, for the laser-cutting of the ship's name and the number spray plate for me. Thanks to the boss of AKA Model for giving me a set of Baku PE set for free. Thank you for the deck auxiliary vehicle presented by the "no research" brand. So far, the feelings have fallen, and there will be no regrets in this life. Thanks for watching!

Let's take a look at the side numbers of the Minsk. As we all know, in order to confuse NATO and anti-spyware, the number of Soviet warships will often change, so Minsk also used various numbers at different stages of its life. The following is my own summary. All photos are collected from Internet and copyrights below to their orignal authors. The hull number was 130 when it entered service in 1978: The hull number was changed to 042 in 1979: The hull number was changed to 117 in 1981: The hull number was changed to 011 in 1982, officially becoming the flagship of the Pacific Fleet By 1983, the front side of the flight deck was equipped with a fairing, and 5 spoilers were installed on the left side of the front deck to reduce the impact of airflow on the take-off and landing of aircrafts. During this period, the Minsk left the most photos, many of which were taken by the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the US troops stationed in Japan. The hull number was changed to 025 in 1983. 025 has been used for the longest time, until 1991. At the same time, you can see from the photo that there are Ka-27 parked on the deck, indicating that Minsk has mixed 3 types of carrier-based aircraft: Yak-38, Ka-25 and Ka-27 during this period. The last time the Minsk voyage was observed by the open sea was in April 1986 (the following June visited Wonsan, North Korea, but strictly speaking, it is not an open sea voyage) Since then, she has never served normally. This built is to repliace the 025 period in 1986. In 1991, the hull number was changed to 038: The hull number was changed to 015 in 1992, which is the hull number that Minsk has been using to this day. She is still floating alone under the Sutong Bridge in Nantong, Jiangsu Province nowadays...poor old lady. This is a precious photo of Minsk and Novorossiysk before they were sold to Koreans It can be seen in the photo that the spherical radar on the top of the Minsk bridge has been dismantled, so the "white ball" seen in Shenzhen and Nantong was made by Chinese themselves and must not be used as a reference for textual research! (This time I was fooled because of this, I finally remade the top antenna myself and replaced it with dark gray).