Madhatter Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 Hi everyone While I wait for my lighting boards to arrive, I thought I would join in this GB - especially as it's my favourite type of subject - WIF!!! I'd be kicking myself if I didn't enter in it I've chosen to build Revell's boxing of the T-50. It'll be in-flight as well. Yay The back story? Well, pretty lame I'm afraid - Ukraine and Russia kissed and made up and Ukraine bought some T-50's to update their aging fleet of SU-27's. There. Done I'm just not one for inventing convoluted stories - I appreciate and admire those who can though. I just like painting subjects in what ever scheme I think would look cool. As for the model itself - well, it's very, very basic to say the least. But then it is 1/72, so one shouldn't expect too much. The surface feels quite rough - not smooth, which is something I find a little weird. As I mentioned before, I'm making it in-flight, so of course, the gear bay doors are less than mediocre in fit. I have yet to find one plane where the gear doors fit flush with the fuselage when closed. It's obviously made to be displayed with the gear down, but like the Raptor (F-22), it looks fornicatingly ugly when it's sitting on the ground. There is plenty of fixing up to do in these areas and the putty tube will be getting a work out I've also decided to paint the engine area first - just to be different. Once it's all dried and sealed, I'll paint the rest of the plane. As you can see, my air-brush had a spit whilst trying to carefully lay on some Polished Aluminum Lastly, quite possibly one of the most bring cockpits I have come across on a model in a very long time: On the subject of painting, I'm going to make this a splintered one - based loosely on the SU-27 and in the digital camo colours. I bought some AKAN paints some time ago for my 32nd SU-27, but I decided not to use them on that aircraft and save them for something else. I've had this idea for the T-50 ever since I first saw it on the shelves a year or so ago, so it'll be a fitting use for them Anyways, that's all for now, but I will be back again soon enough thanks for looking MH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madhatter Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 Engines done: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptormodeller Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Cool! If you want a more in-depth back story I can do it for you (since you already have the photos, my conditions WON'T apply to you) chomp chomp -raptor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S5 modeller Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Nice paint job on those engines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madhatter Posted September 22, 2015 Author Share Posted September 22, 2015 Cool! If you want a more in-depth back story I can do it for you (since you already have the photos, my conditions WON'T apply to you) chomp chomp -raptor Thanks mate. If you'd like to, be my guest. Well, I got the base coat down and the first alternate colour of the splinter scheme: Just need to re-paint one of the tail fins and then I will lay on the next colour. I am loving these AKAN paints!! Very easy to use and if they need to be thinned, just use Tamiya lacquer thinner - works a treat! I am also thinking I might add some weapons to this - just to make it look a bit meaner. I have no idea where this plane would store weapons - unlike the F-22 which hides the sparrows on the inside, this seems to have no place to hide them. There looks to be missile mounting points on the wings, so I'll just use them. Forgoing stealth, I reckon some missiles would look the part. What do you think? thanks for looking MH 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Don't you love all that masking for a scheme like this Si? Nice progress mate, interior and exterior look good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Nice paintwork This scheme will suit the T-50 something lovely and a set of f-off big missiles will give it a potent stance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptormodeller Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Mmm, need to do some researching for the back story apart from that i can get done by next thursday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirageiv Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Nice work, love the blue colours! The weapons bays are internal like the F-22, however not definitely known as of yet I think, http://www.migflug.com/jetflights/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sukhoi_pak_fa_T-50-1_8.png Though I think it also has the weapon hard points like you have in non stealth mode though! The internal missiles are different however with fold out fins. look forward to more, cheers David. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Browsing the magazine section of my local supermarket earlier this evening and there was a photo of two T-50 taking off with underwing missiles clearly being carried - think it was Airforces Monthly but foolishly I didn't check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptormodeller Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Nice work, love the blue colours! The weapons bays are internal like the F-22, however not definitely known as of yet I think, http://www.migflug.com/jetflights/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sukhoi_pak_fa_T-50-1_8.png Though I think it also has the weapon hard points like you have in non stealth mode though! The internal missiles are different however with fold out fins. look forward to more, cheers David. Browsing the magazine section of my local supermarket earlier this evening and there was a photo of two T-50 taking off with underwing missiles clearly being carried - think it was Airforces Monthly but foolishly I didn't check. MOAAAR background research for this back-story. Bring it on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madhatter Posted September 28, 2015 Author Share Posted September 28, 2015 Well, the painting is all but done. I am now waiting for it to finish drying, then I'll put it all together and then decal it (once they turn up that is)I leave it to you to judge whether or not it's good but I'm pretty happy with how it's all come out and looks like I had in my head. Well, that's it for now. The next update should be the finished itemthanks for looking MH 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 The paint scheme looks great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arniec Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Great paintjob!!!! Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirageiv Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 wow, stunning paint job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S5 modeller Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Absolutely beautiful. I hope my splinter scheme comes out half as good on my berkut. Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madhatter Posted September 30, 2015 Author Share Posted September 30, 2015 thanks fellas It's getting close to the finish now: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madhatter Posted October 1, 2015 Author Share Posted October 1, 2015 and finished: And with the other splintered aircraft I have: I'll add some pics into the Gallery section shortly Thanks to those who looked in and commented See you around MH 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzio Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 Very very nice, loved following the build of this one. The paint scheme is amazing and I hope to be able to get something like that done one day. I love the Yellow 13 too, spent many hours shooting him down. Kind Regards, Dazz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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