Ukrainan Su-27UB Flanker C, 1/48 GWH

[coneheadff]

Wow...the wheel wells look great 👍 

[Aigore]

2 hours ago, coneheadff said:

Wow...the wheel wells look great 👍 

Thanks GWH has made a real gem

[CJP]

Fabulous work

 

Fabulous work

 

Fabulous work

 

[Bell209]

On 4/1/2022 at 10:29 PM, Aigore said:

I guess QS stuff will be as important as turned pitot tubes in the future...the hobby just got more expensive

They are really nice! 

[Aigore]

9 hours ago, CJP said:

Fabulous work

 

Fabulous work

 

Fabulous work

 

Thanks CJP

 

9 hours ago, Bell209 said:

They are really nice! 

Yup, they are

[_alfisti_]

Nice project and quite a great start. I realy like the digital camo of the Ukrainian Sukhois an dgot all the stuff to build one in 1/72 in my stash, maybe your project brings me some motivation to start mine too.

[Aigore]

8 hours ago, _alfisti_ said:

Nice project and quite a great start. I realy like the digital camo of the Ukrainian Sukhois an dgot all the stuff to build one in 1/72 in my stash, maybe your project brings me some motivation to start mine too.

Thanks alfisti

Best praise there is is to inspire

[James G]

Great work so far. I must try some of the Quinta products, they look really nice in place.

[Aigore]

17 hours ago, James G said:

Great work so far. I must try some of the Quinta products, they look really nice in place.

Thanks James they are exquisite....and unfortunately russian.

[Aigore]

The Friday update is here!

The Wheel-welling Continues

Moving on to the outer parts of the main wheel wells.

I begin by glueing in the roof of the airintakes, they have an itty bitty wheel well part. The fit was pleasently perfect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next I cleaned the small stuff  and detail painted them

 

 

 

 

 

With the small stuff painted I started glueing them into place, first to the engine nacelles.

 

 

 

 

 

And into the fuselage part too.

 

 

 

 

 

Then a gloss coat and and a light wash.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I finished off by wiping off excessive wash and flat coated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I finnished today session with dry fitteing the intake and engine  nacelle....looks delightfully busy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers!

[coneheadff]

Oh boy...I see myself buying a GWH Su.

 

Great job!!

[jackroadkill]

Oh my goodness, this is brilliant!  I'm going to follow this one closely.  Slava Ukraini!

[Aigore]

7 hours ago, coneheadff said:

Oh boy...I see myself buying a GWH Su.

 

Great job!!

 

Thanks coneheadff Please do...lovely kit!

 

2 hours ago, jackroadkill said:

Oh my goodness, this is brilliant!  I'm going to follow this one closely.  Slava Ukraini!

Thanks jackroadkill

[Biggles87]

a little late to the party as usual, but I’m here now. 

Great work.

 

John

 

🇺🇦

[Aigore]

5 hours ago, Biggles87 said:

a little late to the party as usual, but I’m here now. 

Great work.

 

John

 

🇺🇦

Better late than never

Thanks John

[Aigore]

The Sunday update is here.

The intakes....

Oh...became a wee bit bigger update than anticipated...I guess I was in the hot zone!

 

First off I glued in the airbrake shut...afterwards I discovered there should have been an insert in the air brake but it fit anyways

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I glued the air ducts...

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm going for a open intake this time and thus the gills are shut.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And they fit gloriously...

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Airducts needed a bit of putty on the inside though.

 

 

 

 

 

Painted the fan front in Alclad Stainless Steel and put down a little wash and glued them together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I painted the big door in the intake with Alclad Stainless Steel as well.

 

 

 

 

 

Now it was timne to sand the air ducts...

 

 

 

 

 

And primed with Alclad Gray Primer

 

 

 

 

 

 

The colour on the inside of the air intakes and airducts are a wee bit tricky. Mostley they are aluminium treated with a yellowish-tanish varnish. I tried to make a mix that seemed plausible with one part vietnam tan, one part Light Stone and one part light gray.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Put the fanfronts in place...I doubt they'll ever see the light of day in there

 

 

 

 

Now for some masking, I thought it would be easier to paint the intakes before assembly...since I didn't do that on my last Flanker and paid the price.

 

 

 

 

 

Aparently the Ukraine AF had their own colors...luckily I had them 

 

 

 

 

First some gray primer and a bit of my usual squiggles with Tamyia XF-63. 

 

 

 

 

And put down the light blue.

 

 

 

 

 

Then more masking and some gloss black on the lower intake lip...

 

 

 

 

Followed by Alclad Polished Aluminium

 

 

 

 

 

Looking good

 

 

 

 

Glued in the intake doors.

 

 

 

 

 

Since a part of the outside of the air ducts will show through the wheel bays I painted them in the pale primer colour I mixed earlier.

 

 

 

 

 

And glued in the airduct into the nacelle.

 

 

 

 

 

Somewhere in there the fan fronts should be

 

 

 

 

 

 

Primed and painted the area around the intakes on the lowert fuselage....a bit easier to do now rather than later.

 

 

 

 

 

Then I added a thin gray wash on the intakes trying to bring out those details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then it was time to glue the intake nacelles into the lower fuselage.

 

 

 

 

A decent fit, a little gap att the forward section but that's all.

 

 

 

 

 

And there the both intakes are in place and this session is done.

Next time there will be fuselage closing

 

 

 

 

Cheers!

[Duncan B]

You are speeding along nicely. I took a lot of care painting and detailing some resin aftermarket fans and making sure the seams were all filled in on the trunking on my Su-35 only for it all to completely disappear once assembled. I haven't been as fussy this time and have just thrown the parts together lol. It's definitely worth pre painting the insides of the actual air intakes though. 

Have you found photographic evidence for your Ukrainian UB having the tan coloured intakes? I did a bit of a hunt on the internet for photos of Blue 71 and it looks like the intakes are the blue grey (almost RLM02) colour from what I could see, admittedly finding well lit photos of the intakes is virtually impossible. I wonder if the intakes were either painted that colour from new or repainted when these aircraft were upgraded.

 

Duncan B

[Aigore]

3 hours ago, Duncan B said:

You are speeding along nicely. I took a lot of care painting and detailing some resin aftermarket fans and making sure the seams were all filled in on the trunking on my Su-35 only for it all to completely disappear once assembled. I haven't been as fussy this time and have just thrown the parts together lol. It's definitely worth pre painting the insides of the actual air intakes though. 

Have you found photographic evidence for your Ukrainian UB having the tan coloured intakes? I did a bit of a hunt on the internet for photos of Blue 71 and it looks like the intakes are the blue grey (almost RLM02) colour from what I could see, admittedly finding well lit photos of the intakes is virtually impossible. I wonder if the intakes were either painted that colour from new or repainted when these aircraft were upgraded.

 

Duncan B

THanks Duncan

 

Yeah, it's been hard to come by any good refs really...I guess I fell back on Yufei's build and general pictures instead of specific refs  

However I feel I can focus my energy on things that actually will be seen

[Aigore]

Friday is upon us and here is the update!

 

The Dip

OK where were we?

 

Right I glued the intakes to the lower fuselage half.

in fact there was a small gap along the inside so I puttied it up real quick with acrylic putty and pulled off the excess with cotton swab.

 

 

 

 

 

Then I glued in these small things into the upper fuselage..suppose they have something to do with the horizontal stabs.

 

 

 

 

 

Then it was time to close the fuselage. The fit is good but I have to pull the fuselage to shape and fix them in position with clamps and tape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then the stinger, important to use the right part here since it differes between Russian and Ukrainian flankers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

After that I glued the vertical stabs together.

 

 

 

Right, next for the windshield.

There is a seamline across the center, I first scraped off the line with a knife.

 

 

 

 

 

Then I sanded with 1000 grit pads...

 

 

 

 

 

2000 grit....

 

 

 

 

 

And 4000 grit.

 

 

 

 

 

Then wet polishing with a 6000 cloth......duh put the wrong one in the picture

 

 

 

 

 

 

8000....

 

 

 

 

 

 

And finally 12000 grit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next Tamiya Polishing Compound....

 

 

 

 

 

 

And a dip in Future....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now I want the wind shield tinted.

I mix 1 part Tamiya Clear Yellow and one part Tamiya Smoke....

 

 

 

 

 

Then I carefully shoot dry coats until I'm happy with the tint.

 

 

 

 

 

Now a bit of polishing with Tamyia compund to bring back the shine...

 

 

 

 

 

 

And a final dip i n future to get that crystal clearity Oh I did the canopy too but no tinting.

 

 

 

 

Cheers!

[Biggles87]

Watching your build has prompted me to dig out my Academy Su-27B, which I bought about 20 years ago.

While the GWH kit is obviously miles ahead of the Academy version, I also have quite a few aftermarket sets including an original KMC cockpit and the Aires wheel wells and exhaust nozzles. I might do some research into converting it to a Ukrainian Flanker C.

Keep up the good work.

 

John

 

🇺🇦

[Aigore]

4 minutes ago, Biggles87 said:

Watching your build has prompted me to dig out my Academy Su-27B, which I bought about 20 years ago.

While the GWH kit is obviously miles ahead of the Academy version, I also have quite a few aftermarket sets including an original KMC cockpit and the Aires wheel wells and exhaust nozzles. I might do some research into converting it to a Ukrainian Flanker C.

Keep up the good work.

 

John

 

🇺🇦

Thanks John 

Happy to inspire!

[Aigore]

BTW, I've also started a twin MiG-29 build on Patreon, it's a comission build of Ghost of Kyiv and it is a Patreon exclusive.

If you feel so inclined you are most welcome to support and follow me on Patreon.

Cheers

[Aigore]

And it's Sunday and time for another update.

A bit of this and that.

 

Mostly just adding stuff, this is more like assembly than building to be frank.

The fuselage seam isn't Tamiya perfect but no real issue.

 

 

 

 

 

Added some protruding bumps to the nacelles.

 

 

 

 

Cleaned the seam on the vertical stabs a bit...just scraping lightly.

 

 

 

Put a bit of ballast in the nosecone.

 

 

 

 

 

Readied these small tubes to go into the wheel wells.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Added the HUD projector lens.

 

 

 

 

 

Added the outer parts of the wheelwells...they fit with a satisfying POP.

 

 

 

 

 

Put the leading edge slats together and glued them into place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the flaps..

 

 

 

And lastly I put the nosecone into place...  next I will do some minute filling and sanding to get those perfect seams.

 

 

 

 

That's all for today folks

Cheers!

[Biggles87]

That’s an interesting joint line for the nose cone, hope the filling and sanding works well.

The detail in the main wheel wells is amazing, certainly as good as the Aires wheel well set.

Looking forward to more.

 

John

 

🇺🇦

 

 

[Aigore]

1 hour ago, Biggles87 said:

That’s an interesting joint line for the nose cone, hope the filling and sanding works well.

The detail in the main wheel wells is amazing, certainly as good as the Aires wheel well set.

Looking forward to more.

 

John

 

🇺🇦

 

 

Thanks John

GWH follows the real opening of the nose to reveal the radar.

https://images.app.goo.gl/5SvhUx6FWqeVdnaj7