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Latvian Nakotne made its kits of Su-27 family aircraft in the beginning of the 1990s and now they are universally considered as awfully inaccurate. Regardless of that some of them still produced by Russian Zvezda, gradually being replaced by newer kits of the same aircraft. Last year with the advent of new Su-33 Zvezda finally retired its old (but not the oldest) ex-Nakotne Su-33 never considered by serious modellers as something worth of money and efforts to build; last week this semi-completed kit was donated to me for rebuild - or, if take a look from the other point, to help build similar Nakotne's Su-30. Well, this kit, inaccurate it is, still looks like Su, not MiG or F-16 and one of my acquaintances asked me for display model of any modern Sukhoi fighter, and I think this would pass. As Su-30 lacked the canopy and Su-33 is single seater and even with these wing-like bits not Su-33 at all, mating of them could produce only something able to pass for Su-27. So let it be Su-27. I still not sure about decals, as kit is not worth spending good ones on it and of bad kind I have only those for Su-33. Well, I'll deal with this later, but first would be complete disembowelment, rescribing and stripping off paint. Or, more likely, sanding it off, as I found convenient to use existing paint layer in scribing and search-n-destroy operations against sink marks (of which lots are present). I'll periodically post updates on this project intended to be finished before New Year (2018, not some New Year). Right now Im blue - yes, I'm a bit depressed and fighting with it in a Pictish warrior's style, covered with blue paint, results of kit's surfaces sanding. May be that "Mole" liquid is not the worse solution, but I can't help remembering where I put it... Ok, work is going on, and now is time to explain why all this is written (and will be written) in English. As you probably know, GreenMats now has three official languages - Ukrainian, Russian and, yes, English. People have been posting there only in the first two and this should be corrected. So, why not use English (or whatever I dare to call that), get some practice not only in modelling but also in English writing and try to kill all the birds with one fighter aircraft? Any comments and encouragements are highly welcome, be they in any of forum's official languages - I understand (or not understand, as some people may say) all three. But I'll write there in English and hope it is slightly better than Nakotne's kit

Добавлено admin-ом 1 февраля 2018 Обзор модели находится дальше в этой же теме. Кликните на стрелку в правом верхнем углу блока, расположенного ниже, и перейдете прямо на него. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

На скале есть топик, где Дима Смолин со ссылкой на FB намекнул, что Great Wall Hobby готовят новый Су-35 в масштабе 1/48. Другой источник дал понять, что готовится вся линейка Су-27-ых. Ссылок, рендеров, официальных подтверждений пока нет.