After I finished the Hawkeye of VAW-124 a while ago, I picked up the Eduard Su-22M3 Fitter limited edition again. This kit is based on the old Kopro kit and not that sharp and crispy as we are used to lately. But Eduard put some extra's in the box like PE for the cockpit, a brasin seat and lots of nice decals. Nevertheless I had to do some mods. The majors are:
The inside of the exhaust was reworked;
Flaps were dropped;
Slats were reworked and dropped;
Eduard AA-2 Atolls were added;
Airco on the canopy frame was added.
The model represents one of the two Fitters that were shot down on the morning of 19 August 1981 over the Sidra Bay by two Tomcats of VF-41. There is not too many reference on the Fitters available. Every aspect of the two Tomcats is widely available, on the other hand, we know the two Libyan pilots ejected and they fired one Atoll, and thats about it. So there was room for some guesswork.
Hope you like.