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  1. I started to assemble North Star nozzles. First was this PE lip. IT was too long, but if you cut two links, then it's OK. I thought this at least. Next were inner latices. They have this "tongue" to fit into channels, on the photo above. Well the overlapping wasn't the best either. I'm still thinking what to do. Next were outer latices. First, some nice pitting to deal with. As if this wasn't enough, whole PE sheet with outer latices and this lip I mentioned before, is produced in wrong scale! A prove is quite simple. This is length of outer latices from North Star: 77 mm. It's a girth of a circle. The diameter of this circle would be 77/3.14=24.5 mm This is diameter of outer latices of Dreammodel AL-31 nozzles in 1/48 scale (forget Aires !!!). And this is diameter of divergent part of nozzle from North star they should fit. Conclusion: Outer latices are in 1/48 scale, while everything else is in 1/72. I contacted the North Star directly. The emailed me back that they are aware of this mistake and that they informed all customers and distributors. The would send me new replacement sheet, free of charge. That was over a month ago, still nothing from post office. I contacted them again and they insured me that they will send another one.So, keep you fingers crossed. I also contacted Juan (alias JFVicente), as he also had this North Star nozzles. He also has same problem.
  2. Next thing are North Star nozzles. I will show you more later on. This is just a inbox preview.
  3. Same as you all are impressed by my work on this subject, I'm also really impressed by the number of views. It's almost one year that I'm working on Su-34, and this topic is opened more than 12000 times already, which means over 30 times each day !!! I wasn't much at home in the past two months, but I still have worked on Su-34. This update will be a little bit bigger (5-6 posts), so be patient, until I upload everything. As some of you already noticed, this project evolves thru time, and what started as CAS with pre-serial machine, now I'm hungry for more. In general, this should end as diorama of Voronyezh AFB, with 3-4 Su-34s, two APAs and one TZ-22 tanker. Plus some ground crew. So, I think I will need a couple of years to finish everything. First photos on own legs! It's a dryfit but with many loose joints it looks a bit sloopy. To help with loose joints, I filled them with styrene and drilled holes again. I ordered some Evergreen columns to reconstruct the link between fuselage and main gear struts (part 46 on Italeri instructions). I moved the legs outwards, because of cables, so original parts would be too short. Here you can see the port strut moved outwards and cable lines, behind it. And here is new link. More to follow, shortly....
  4. OK, I will try to explain it this way... On this photo, showing line-up in Baltimore/ Vorhonyezh AB, there are 5 Su-34: - red 08 in tricolor camo - nearest to camera, with extruded IFR probe, rolling on the runway - red 04 in tricolor camo - 1st in line-up, looking from right to left. - red 05 in eggplant camo - 2nd in line-up - red 10 in eggplant camo - 3rd in line-up - red 05 in tricolor camo - 4th in line-up, has double B-13 launchers and ECM wingtip pods. Tactical code of the last one is covered with hot air from red 08, but damaged reg. no. can be seen on port vertical tail. As far as I know (And I don't know much about Su-34), there were only two Su-34 in tricolor camo with reg. no. applied: -red 04 = RF-92252 -red 05 = RF-92253 Now, since red 04 is first in the row, the one with B-13 launchers could be only red 05. My first thoughts were that red 05 with tricolor camo went back to Novosibirsk to update it to new serial standard and therefore also got new eggplant camo. But, after looking at this picture yesterday I concluded that there are two Su-34 with code red 05: one with tricolor camo and other one with eggplant camo. And both are at Voronyezh AB. HTH
  5. PE nozzles from Dreammodel also became a headache. I decided to repair first nozzle by placing it into acetone. This photo shows current situation after 3rd attempt to rebuild it from start. I'm still making same mistake over and over: one inner ring is placed inside-out. I think some parts won't survive another bath in acetone, so I ordered new nozzles from North Star. Yes, they have PE latices, too. http://northstarmodels.com/product/exhaust-nozzles-for-su-34-fullback/ Another reason is that I would need to remove 0.5 mm all around on fuselage to accomodate Dreammodel nozzles (they are narrow than fuselage in engine area). I hope I will have better luck with North Star nozzles. Vertical tail: I started with adding panel lines on inner side. I made a mistake on starboard fin: one panel has to be longer. I also repaired HUD. This allowed me to close the cabin. Prep work is also needed for horizontals, taken from Su-30MKK kit. After I narrowed it, and compared to drawings, I got interesting conclusion: model engines are wider than drawings. Another view shows that I need to thin fuselage in the vertical tail area. Trailing edge on fuselage is 4-4.5 mm, while horizontals are 2 mm thin. Plan is to remove excess material all the way from main landing gear, towards horizontals, but slightly. Hole for horizontal's shaft will be placed halfway: one half on fuselage, one half on the horizontals. Just like on real Su-34. The problem appeared with this solution: I could end up in fuselage, as there are big hollow places from inside. Thus, I added Milliput from inside. Last this for today is fuselage in the wing area. THere was a hollow space between upper and lower fuselage half. So, when I applied pressure with sanding paper or file, it just broke off along the joint with epoxy. I added some melted sprue in between.
  6. Some work-in-progress... This is door for fuel cell. It's attached to 0.2 mm wire. This means I had to drill 0.2 mm hole to door and fuselage. This is glycole tank, made from 1.5 mm styrene and 0.2 mm wire for ducting. I also flushed gun PE into the fuselage with countless filling and sanding. Dremel was also used, to sand PE parts in some area. Front leg with new details added:side struts and lights with cabels. This cabeling made me a big headache. Dryfit with ladders. Ladders will be glued after all painting is done and not before I attach glycol tank. Some pics are rotated to simulate leg in vertical position. One detail I'm missing are anti slip plates on ladder's steps. I could not find any simillar to real Su-34, but I ordered this one from Aber. http://www.ecomodelismo.com/engrave-plate-88-x-57mm---pattern-01-Ref-ABER-PP01.html More photos incoming ...
  7. @Flankerman: thank you for your support. Yes, nose gear leg with mudguard is almost finished. But, more about this later on. Talking about photos of Su-34 ... Can someone comment this one: http://russianplanes.net/id102180 It seems there are two Su-34 with tactical code "red 05": tricolor and eggplant. I was visiting Donetsk in Ukraine and brought back some goodies. That's why there were no updates, recently. PAG-14 airfield plates from ICM http://www.icm.com.ua/catalogue/aviations/163-soviet-pag-14-air-field-plates.html New decals for Su-34 Reboxed Italeri with interesting warning APA-5D starter - conversion set for ICM Ural 4320 Vehicle from Voronyezh in masking camo ?!
  8. Canards are rescribed with riveter. Dryfit with new holes in fuselage. Mudguard finished. I wasn't happy with PE ladders from Olimp. So I made my own from styrene tubes. When I compared both nozzles together, I concluded that I could do first nozzle better, so it ended in acetone to be reassembled again. That's all for now... Keep those comments coming!
  9. Next were nozzles from Dreammodels. Here with Italeri. Afterburner ring, compared with the same from Eduard set. One small advice to all people interested in this set. Instructions are not very helpful when you come to afterburner ring. When looking from centre to outer edge: 1st ring is PE part no.9 (smallest in size) 2nd ring is scart 3rd ring is scart 4th ring is PE part no.8 5th ring is PE part no. 7 (biggest) Next is front landing gear. This is original from Italeri. Followed by removing some details and adding new ones. This is how Italeri's mudguard looked like. Eduard wanted to add some PE ribs, but they proposed to remove rear side of mudguard completelly off. Not only is this wrong but also their ribs were etched too narrow for Italeri parts. So, additional corrections were needed. Eventually I used those PE ribs but in different way which I found to be more correctly installed, whne compared to photos of real mudguard. More details to come... I added actuators for turning and some hidraulic lines. I also ordered new Su-34 decals from Authentic Decals. http://modelsua.com/Su-34-Fullback-1-72-Authentic-Decals-7258.html
  10. In the meantime I ordered Trump's Su-30MKK because of that spare horizontals set. Thanks to Flankerman one more time! They are spot on when compared to drawings and a bit smaller that Italeri's. Next detail is tail stinger. I managed to rescribe it as on photos I have from Voronyezh in 2011. Tri-colour sheme aircrafts have different tail stinger panels and equipment as on eggplant camo planes. So, I only used flare housing PE from Olimp set. Additional corrections were done after these photos were taken. Main problems were high curvature and Alclad gloss base which got sticky in direct touch with my fingers. Eventually, I sanded it completely off. I also thinned canards: not only leading and trailing edge got more sharp look but also thickness in root. FIrst image shows both thinned and original canard. I also buyed soldering kit. These are my first attempts with soldering in my life. Later it got more sophisticated. Next was that R-77 missile I was missing for station no. 2 Fuselage was also sanded. Some misshaps like this one were just waiting around the corner: epoxy putty got loose from Italeri plastic. This is first stage as finished. Dryfit with wings: I got scared if left wing was too low, but the test with ruler showed everything was fine. More to come in a few moments....
  11. This new camouflage is called eggplant (баклажан in Russian) and I hate it My will be finished as "red 05" with pre-serial camouflage. http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx57/supergru/Su34/DSC_0797_2_zpsbc20d22c.jpg http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx57/supergru/Su34/DSC_0685_2_zpsc90ce33e.jpg If you like the eggplant camo, I would suggest you this page: http://gold-mun.livejournal.com/147706.html
  12. Since no one is commenting, here are a few more pics. Wash on both main wheelbays + MM Dullcote. First I glued them with CA glue. Followed by epoxy. I also played with the gun (PE parts from Olimp + gun barrel scratched from medicine needles). Sorry for not many photos - was busy with other stuff like closing the fuselage. No space at all. The best I could get with Dremel: got them wheelbays almost see through. I also started to thin upper fuselage, but with no luck, either. At some moment I punched thru the skin, and this was the sign to jump to more radical "plan B". I used Dremel to cut excess material according to pencil lines. Very radical, indeed. You can see the gun on the picture above. The gun is also visible on the following pictures. Eventually, I closed the fuselage and blended missing outer skin with epoxy.
  13. As described here before, I transfered the drawings of the vertical stabilisers to 1.5 mm thick styrene sheet. Here you can see that I left 1.5-2 mm surpluss material on the leading and traliling edge, while in the root and on the tip of the verticals I cut exactly on the line. This extra styrene leaves me enough space for errors, while sanding. After sanding. You can see here that new support holes have been drilled next to the edge. After sanding I airbrushed Alclad II Gloss Black Base on verticals and stinger Starboard intake got loose, partially. In the meantime I repaired all panels on the lower fuselage. Not perfect, but will do. I also restored some panels on intakes. I made a wash with these oil paints. Was not happy with results, so it ended in a combination of wash and drybrush. The problem was that I could not mix white and black as if they were from different manufacturer. Here is one main wheelbay from Olimp already painted and with two layers of Future and another with wash. I also added several pieces of Ø0.3 mm silvered copper wire.
  14. A few photos from last year, that I missed to upload. Intakes were glued in position, filled and sanded, and filled again. For KAB-1500L I decided to change the launcher: this is one from ICM box. I added 4 x Ø0.8 mm pieces of copper wire. This is how it looks in combination with new centreline station structure. And now a dryfit with KAB-1500L. Following picture shows clearly that despite the size of KAB-1500L bomb, it leaves enough space to add another weapon system to fuselage station no.2. I was thinking about one R-77 missile. Fuel cell box was big enigma: you can see how much of Pavla cockpit tube I removed in order not to interfere with Olimp fuel cell resin. I also filled and sanded holes for canards. I will drill new, clean ones, probably on the same place. I did the same thing with openings for horizontal stabilisers, as I will replace original ones from Italeri. Italeri casted the fuselage halves so that you can place horizontals only in neutral position.
  15. Last weekend we got a wave of warm weather for this part of year (+ 12 deg C) so I took this opportunity to do some airbrushing needed to continue my work. First, KAB-1500L got the same colour as APK-9: I'm quite happy with this shade. Also the repair work on KAB-1500L proved to be good. Fuselage underside and front wheelbay got some paint, too. I also installed EO targeting system and front part of new underside centreline . I cannot install rear part before I close the fuselage and attach the stinger. IFR area also got some paint to check if filling with epoxy and sanding was OK. Next thing was to rescribe filled area on the front underside. Some work in progress. Final result. Will try to repair some panels later. Intakes were glued, too. I opened the fuel cell panel: to thin/chamfer all edges I also used Dremel, as I couldn't access all areas with the scalpel. Despite all sanding before I glued the resin part from Olimp, the cockpit from Pavla got in the way. This problem was fixed with Dremel again, but I don't have pics here with me to show you results. You'll have to wait until next update. I wish you all merry Christmas and a happy New 2013!
  16. Last detail for today is IFR probe housing. Will just repeat this photo, as a reminder what I did so far. Old housing was filled from both sides with epoxy and then I drilled with Dremel a narrow channel. IFR probe was scratchbuilt, too. Target was to get the probe half submerged into the fuselage and that the fuselage line all around IFR probe is spot on, as if it would be "laser" cut just for the probe. I filled the channel with fresh epoxy and flushed it with the fuselage. And while the epoxy was still fresh, I pressed the probe into the epoxy and removed it right away. Of course, epoxy was raised up, but this was expected to happen. After the epoxy got dry, I sanded excess putty to get smooth surface and clean edges. That's all for today.
  17. Next tiny little detail are aerodynamic splitters in front of the canards. To repeat this picture: this is original from Italeri First step is to removed excess plastic between pencil marked lines. I sanded this area to get clean parabolic arc. At first separately, later with both fuselage halves joined. Some finished pictures you could see in the previous post, here are all others. Scratch material in this case is thin aluminium plate, flange from candle casings. Here is dryfit with scotch tape. Rear lower fuselage, between the engines: I removed old structure elements, for centreline stations. Then I filled several panels and sanded smooth, to be able to install new resin parts. BRB ...
  18. First thing for today are some photos I forgot to add last time. Side-by-side comparison of Italeri and Olimp undercarriage covers. Here I would also like to add some references for modern weapons on Su-34. It's in Russian and Cyrillic but I'm sure you can understand it. Next thing is front wheelbay: Olimp part is fixed with Milliput. After it's dry, I removed all epoxy from front part, and chamfered front edge, because of resin cockpit from Pavla. Main wheelbay got some paint on cables. Next is fuel cell. I had no reference, so my first thought was not to install it at all. But later I changed my mind - I found this: http://i741.photobuc...34/12122012.jpg Anyway, panel lines on lower fuselage half is not correct for this fuel cell. So I took Milliput to fill in all panel lines and sanded away excess putty, around front wheelbay, in front of it and on the nose, as both upper and lower nose halves have no panels. Stinger, flaperons and slats are still to be sanded. To be continued in a moment ...
  19. Wheelbay comparison - resin front wheelbay is positioned incorrectly. my mistake. Some real WIP: main wheelbay being prepared for dry fit. Top is cut out already, lower is original. Notice that you need to cut almost to the main landing strut. Front wheelbay: I don't blame Italeri for this big difference. 20 years ago, when this airplane rolled out, there was little if any good reference. Dryfit Front part of main wheelbay covers, compared with Italeri. Centreline pylon: notice that new holes match old ones. I said I won't use new ECM jammers. But I want to show you my little update on SAP-14 (medicine needles for probe replacement) and SAP-518 compared with my Sorbcya pods and ICM Sorbcya pods (you get them with Air-to-Air set). ICM made positioning holes on the wrong side of Sorbcya pods. One thing that I noticed that is missing in ORA upgrade set is small antenna, which is positioned on starboard side, just behind the cockpit. You can see it here, as well as SAP-518 wing tip pods, aerodynamic fences on upper wings http://i741.photobuc...u34/2152611.jpg
  20. Olimp Resin Accessories ORA 72-12 Su-34 update set This set will upgrade your preseries Su-34 to a standard production line Su-34 + some awesome stuff like newest ECM jammer pods, which you can't find anywhere else. It contains several light blue resin blocks, PE sheet and decals for: 1. "red 01", Ossetia, august 2008., non-standard camouflage http://www.airliners...66866fa6fea0c34 2. "red 05", Lipetsk, december 2010, standard camouflage http://www.airliners...66866fa6fea0c34 There are no reg. no (RF-000000). But new 5-point red star and small fleet no. for verticals, and and markings for army wing/department (in this case "VVS ROSSII") are provided on decal sheet. From this set I will not use following parts: - SAP-14 and two SAP-518 jammers. - aerodynamic fencers for upper wing - MBD3-U2TK bomb racks - I will also scratch my own ladders, instead of provided PE ladders. Will do my best to install provided fuel cell rack opened A few photos... KNIRTI SAP-14 Escort Jammer KNIRTI SAP-518 wing tip ECM pods (successors for L005 Sorbcya) Wheelbay covers Fuel cell rack MBD3 bomb racks New EO targeting system in opened position (closest to camera), below is same in closed position. Same block contains new substructure for centreline pylons. Mine are little curved. :shithappens:
  21. Small review from ICM Air-to-Surface set. This is ICM APK-9 and mine. You can see ICM missed rear end. H-31: right at the spot. Italeri's are too long and bulky (fat) H-59M: has a rocket booster but lacks details in turbojet engine. H-29T and Italeri H-29L. ICM's H-29T missed any details in head seeker, same as H-59M and KAB-500Kr KAB-500Kr (below) and my KAB-1500L (top). In the middle is Italeri's bomb - whatever that is. It has body of 1500 kg-class bomb, laser guided head and rear stabilisers for 500 kg-class bomb. Another reason for this set is AKU-58 launcher (ICM on top and Italeri below), but only 4 units are available in this set.
  22. It's been a while from last update, I admit. But, there was "some" (or awesome if you prefer) progress. @Pin: buddy, when you're next time in Croatia, I'll buy you a drink! (see below for reason) @Flankerman: I appreciate your comments and tips, as a true Flanker legend. If you say it's good, then I have nothing to worry about My biggest headache were wheelbays, both front and main. If I wanted to do something about it, it was about time to do it. So, I waited for resin update from Olimp Resin Accessories (thanks Pin once again) and then ordered a larger package from Ukraine. I ordered: ICM 72212 Soviet Air-to-Air Aircraft Armament ICM 72213 Soviet Air-to-Surface Aircraft Armament ORA 72-12 Su-34 update set (2 pcs.) Begemot 72-048 Russian Air Force Insignia (type 2010) Begemot 72-049 Additional Russian Air Force Insigna (type 2010) In true spirit of Su-34, I decided to change this project again: I'll finish it as serial Su-34, but with non-standard (old) camouflage and full weapons load, as a ordinary Close-air-Support machine. Bort number is still to be desired. With resin set from ORA I can make both "01 red" and "05 red" but new decals are on the move: http://scalemodels.r...abrja-2012.html With full stencils, as good as my knowledge of Russian language helps me. Before I start with new stuff, just a reminder of what I've done before the package came. I brushed some paint on the weapons. Biggest headache is Milliput (see KAB-1500L below) it just shrinks after some time. So sneaky, I hate when this happens.
  23. As announced, I decided to scratch Sorbtsya ECM pods. They look like this: http://i741.photobuc...u34/0929780.jpg http://i741.photobuc...stiya-Pod-1.jpg Each Sorbstya pod weights 205 kg, has 4200 mm in length and 300 mm in diameter. In 1/72 scale it's quite big. Basic shape Pods will be secured via piece of copper wire Finished. Nav lights are missing, but I didn't forget about them. I also forgot about missile rails for R-73, since I moved them from wing tip.Looking at Begemot instructions and in the box, I figured that APU-170 rails intended for R-77 (which came in the box) are incorrect, but are similar to APU-73, that I need for my R-73. I just "turned around" upper parts, and did some sanding on front tip as in flight direction. Upper rail is original, lower is mine, corrected. In order to preserve alignment to the holes in wing underside, you need to fix cut parts to the wing first. Then you glue the rail itself. I also sanded horizontal stabilisers. Shape is accurate now, but it's undersized. I need to try it once more. Final detail for today is IFR probe. Test fit Comparison to IFR probe from Pavla. This is real IFR probe on bort 45. http://i741.photobuc...su-34f_0003.jpg And this is on bort 46. Notice the difference: on bort 45 probe is more submerged in the fuselage. http://i741.photobuc...Su34/051623.jpg Same on bort 48 and serial production 01 red http://i741.photobuc...u34/1389888.jpg 01 red http://i741.photobuc...u34/1707882.jpg http://i741.photobuc...Su34/010617.jpg
  24. Nice cockpit and extra job for painting intakes. I doubt I could do radome tip "silvering" - too shaky hands here. Looking forward for progress
  25. I forgot to mention (it could be misunderstood just by looking at the pics): you place drawing upside-down on styrene and then brush the glue on the clear side of paper. This way glue transfers drawing onto styrene. Then you need to remove the paper while glue is still fresh.
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