Trumpeter SU47 1/144

[Wouter1981]

Lets start with the positive points... It's cheap, it's an interesting aircraft ....  aaaand that's about it. Easily the worst kit I've ever had. Of course for 3.5€ you can't expect much, but still.... it's bad. Low on details, bad fitting and the kit wasn't symmetrical, not a single piece had its mirror image on the other side! The decals just broke looking at them, I used the decals of a su34 kit and they were a little bit better but also very fragile. The choice of armament was hmmm ... interesting. 8 R77 and 4 HUGE missiles. I believe 2 of them are kh59 (which honestly are rather nicely modelled) but I have no idea what the 2 others are, but they are massive. With what I believe is a booster stage, they are 7.6m long. I added a picture , does anybody have any clue what they are? I chose to leave them off the sukhoi because they just ruin the lines of the plane. My first experience with Trumpeter and boy, it wasn't a nice one. I chose a flashy and a fictive paint scheme and experimented with it. Fading paint and decals, which turned out OK and adding some heatstaining, which wasn't a great success.

 

 

 

Edited November 1, 2021 by Wouter1981

[Tim R-T-C]

Really nicely done scheme. Good work on finishing it!

 

I had a shot at the Trumpeter Su-34s which sound very similar, loads of correction and sanding required - mine are still stuck on the shelf of doom...

[GiampieroSilvestri]

Splendid Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut!

 

Saluti

 

Giampiero

[Remus389]

You brought out the best of a cheap quality kit.

 

I think it was worth the effort.

[Mig88]

Lovely job and thanks for the info.

Their earlier 1:144 kits were terrible. Their chinese MiG-21 variants are to be avoided.

 

Miguel

[RMCS]

Looks great 

[Bertie McBoatface]

Cool looking thing. Nicely modelled. Well done.

[spruecutter96]

For a real dog of a kit, you've done an excellent job, my friend!

 

Thanks for sharing with us.

 

Chris.