1/72 Trumpeter Su-24 Fencer D

[AndrewMi]

Hi everyone

This is my 1/72 Su-24 by Trumpeter. The kit has nice recessed panel lines and rivets. The fit was good apart from the intakes and the nose which had a bit of sanding required. The landing gear were well detailed as well as the landing gear bays which had raised rivets and structure. Ak real colours Mig 31/25 was used for the grey and white primer for the underside. The decals were good but the stars and bull wouldn't conform to the panel lines and rivets even after many applications of micro sol. In the end, I just pushed the decal into the rivets with a needle. I mixed black and raw umber oil paints for the grey areas and highly diluted raw umber for the white areas. I had found some nice pictures which showed a really dirty underside near the engines which I decided to experiment and the results came out ok. The kit also came with many options for weapons but in the end I decided to just use the fuel tanks. 

Thanks for looking

[SAT69]

In the right setting and properly photographed, your model would pass for the real thing. Very nicely done.

[Ryan Hothersall]

Nice build. 

[Red Dog]

Love it. She's a beauty. Great skills on show there Andrew.

Got her big sis in the stash waiting for the confidence and skills to not stuff it up.

You've also given me the confidence to use AK's MiG 25/31 Grey. Looks the part.

[James G]

Superb Fencer, very well done indeed! Makes me want to break mine out of the stash...

[Vultures1]

Very nice indeed!  Finish and weathering look spot on - well done

[swralph]

Lovely build Andrew.😀

[fox1_BE]

Very nice job, excellent and realistic finish!! 👌

[Tbolt]

Great work!

[Andy Dyck]

Yes fantastic model. It turns out very realistic! Nice weathering, nice photography too, although my old eyes get a little confused with the mirror effects, but that’s my problem.🤪

Cheers

 

Andy 

[Pete in a shed]

You've captured the look of the Fencer beautifully Andrew. The amount of weathering, panel lining and colour shading is just right, could be a real jet.

Pete

[djos]

Very inspiring work, great looking Fencer

Regards Djordje

[Lightningboy2000]

Fantastic work! Great looking Fencer, hope mine looks half as good!

 

Martin

[Sky Keg]

Well Andrew, you made the “Suitcase” look like the real thing.  Very nice attention to detail and overall appearance. 

 

Mike

 

 

[Lee Chambers]

Superb looking Fencer.

[GiampieroSilvestri]

Splendid Sukhoi Su-24!

 

Saluti

 

Giampiero

[dashellis]

Superb finish, I do love a Fencer and that looks class

 

Darren

[AndrewMi]

 Thanks @dashellis

I'm just wondering how you came across my post 6 months later like a few other people have in the past couple of days.

Thanks

[dashellis]

36 minutes ago, AndrewMi said:

 Thanks @dashellis

I'm just wondering how you came across my post 6 months later like a few other people have in the past couple of days.

Thanks

Hi Andrew,

If someone flicks through the posts of the past and then comments on the post it then go's back to the top of the posts on the Forum,. Then others that may not have seen the post at the time of posting comment on the post. My that's a large use of the word post 

Think that's how it works anyway

 

Darren

[Terry1954]

And i have just seen this also. Superb Fencer which i must have missed earlier this year!

 

Terry

[AndrewMi]

7 minutes ago, dashellis said:

Hi Andrew,

If someone flicks through the posts of the past and then comments on the post it then go's back to the top of the posts on the Forum,. Then others that may not have seen the post at the time of posting comment on the post. My that's a large use of the word post 

Think that's how it works anyway

 

Darren

Thanks for clearing that up for me Darren 

Thanks 

 

[kapam]

8 hours ago, dashellis said:

Then others that may not have seen the post at the time of posting comment on the post

I guess I'm one of those latecomers!

Nevertheless, that's a beautifully built and finished model!