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New 1/48 scale Su-27UB from Hobby Boss - Sample Photos


Flankerman

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Famed Indonesian modeller Alex Sidharta has just sent me this photo.....

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It is, apparently, scaled up from the Trumpeter 1/72 scale version - with improvements.

This is a sample boxing sent to his friend - so that's all I know about it.

He promised to take more photos soon.....

Happy Flankering!

Ken

Note:- Editted to change title from Trumpeter to Hobby Boss - on request

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hmmm

thanks a loot for the additional pictures and comments!

panel lines look soft compared to the Academy kit....

R-27 look short or thick ?

wheel wells look really strange!!

nozzles are crude! compare them to GWH MiG-29s! --> Upnorth or Dreammodel PE!

cockpit detail is a bit poor as well :(

nose and canopy look quite ok!

really curious how this one will compare size-wise to the Academy kit!

lets wait and see!

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It's just an impression unsupported by any measurement but the forward fuselage seems slender-er and the wings more swept than the Academy - kind of like a Y versus a T.

I like the one-piece air intake with the indentation on the fuselage belly, the deep cockpit tub and the fully-boxed wheel wells. On the whole, much less potential for see-through. Okay, the wells are slant-eyed, but at least they're on the underside.

What I won't like, I guess, will be the price...

(Funny how it is, I paid the RP for the Be-12 without batting an eyelid, but somehow I can't justify a lesser expense for the GWH MiG-29, even though it's a beautiful kit. I must be emotionally attached to those Academy kits and the 'pennyless university student' memories that they evoke)

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