Well, it's time to tackle something a little bit bigger this time - the mighty Trumpeter 1/32 SU-27! It's huge!!
I do have a spot for it on the shelf but I rather suspect it will take up a lot more room than what I've allocated. I think a reshuffle will be in order
I have spent a few hours on it already - most of it prepping the body and making the missiles, getting the resin all cut up and sanded, and I have just put down a coat of black Alclad primer onto the cockpit.
I was going to add lights to this, but now I can't be arsed. If I was going to use the Trumpy pit, then yeah, I would, but as I'm using the Aires pit, well, too much work was needed to accommodate lighting
I never intended to use any resin AM parts other than the Zacto Intakes, but I got all of them for dirt cheap, so I may as well. I can't believe it though - I actually broke the cockpit floor! I know right:- the floor!!!! How did I do that?? Well, as I was sawing away the huge pour plug when I realised I had sawed upwards a bit and the blade went into the floor a bit. Then as I was removing the plug, it snapped right where the seat sits. I know that sounds very complicated and you probably have no idea what the heck I'm talking about, but I will show you some pictures of it once the paint has gone on. Thank God it broke in a place that you won't see once it's all together
But, thankfully, that's the only thing to have gone wrong ..... so far
In the mean time, I have washed the body with Tamiya's panel line wash. This seems a bit odd considering I haven't actually put anything together, but I find it's easier to keep track of what details I am loosing as the sanding process goes onward. It also helps with the painting of the body when it's time to do that.
I have also removed the splitter panels on the bottom half ready for the Zacto intakes
Time for the limited pictures:
the Missiles so far (they will have some missing details added to them shortly)
Now I know that Aires have a reputation for not always fitting properly and the front wheel wells of the Flanker kit are well documented, but nothing prepared me for this:
Notice that the holding pins don't even line up and the length of mine isn't really an issue. I think I will bypass using these wells and detail the kit ones instead. The rear ones seem fine so far, but it's early days yet and I haven't even sawed off the pour plugs yet.
People bag out Trumpeter for producing incorrect details of these wheel wells but let's be honest - how many times are you likely to turn over such a huge kit to look at the wheel wells? I know I won't be. If I have too many issues with the Aires stuff, I will revert to the Kit ones and detail them instead.
Well, I'm going to go now and keep chugging on with this, but I will post a more interesting update shortly
Thanks for stopping by
MH