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This is an open lie. Everybody could check the net and find there photos of several complete kits. And on ALL of them the wing dihedral is zero. And, what is more, here http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic_p_911432.html#911432 everybody interested could find comment of some user called Уокер, and this man wrote this: "Да не было там никакой чаечности. Верхнее крыло с поперечным V=0. Видимый на фото сбоку эффект от консолей имеющих стреловидность и съемки с точки значительно ниже и ближе чем снята модель. На других фото самолета ни спереди ни сзади не видно никакой чаечности. Верхнее крыло совершенно ровное". date: 10.09.2013, several months after the work on NV-6 kit was finished and first casts went on sale. Was he some other Уокер? Those who want could easily check this and find the proof that scalemodels' Уокер and Уокер who writes here is the same person. The next Уокер's post here tells even more about that nice, good-natured and admirable man, but this is not about models, sure. Let's forget this. But the third post is of much interest for modellers. On this photo you can clearly see the ABSENCE of the fifth exhaust pipe in the upper cut-out on the motor cowling and aft of it there are three slots of the ventilation "gill". Excellent photo that proves me right, thanks. Unfortunately, it is unlikely we will see some more. Even more unfortunate is that Уокер, who is no one other but Musa Zekoreev himself, now could be justly considered as a proven liar. May be I was not very gentle with him, but he acts definitely not like a gentleman. So enough on him, but if somebody has something to say about the kit - welcome.

Igor, thanks Starter's hub on the propeller was painted dark metal shortly after the photos were taken. Accentuated panel lines and washing would have looked nice, but unfortunately this model is not with me anymore - I've given it to another person. But next time - why not?

When the kit is on the wheels the wheel cowls doesn't touch the ground and aft bottom line of the cowl is parallel to the ground like on the real thing, or close to that

I fully understand why I write here in English - and this have nothing in common with any politics. And reaction to my texts in Russian clearly shows me I do the right thing. Problems of Google translation are problems of Google, not mine. Sorry that it is a problem for somebody to understand what i write in English - but they seem not to get what is written in Russian too. :) So I will use English only until it is not prohibited by forum rules, please excuse me for that. As of Su - I'm invincible :) Now it is on the "shelf of doom" as one our Australian colleague called it, but one day it will be back, sure. To throw kit, however bad it is, into a waste bin is a sacrilege :) And Nakotne's one is... May be not good, but not a disappointing one ether.

Good morning gentlemen! It’s so nice to see such a lot of interest to my humble person and even some - to the model I’ve built. Negative amount of interest in discussing model kit sets and their producers on the modelling site is a bit perplexing though; yet I found your comments quite deep and very encouraging. They tell so much about you all I have no words to praise your honesty enough. Thank you, thank you gentlemen, I’m touched. Enjoying your warm company and Sincerely yours, Snorry A. Tokay

Recent updates. Im fighting for the Union (of fuselage, wings and jet nozzles), and rebellious steps, although standing bravely, are no match for 280 sandpaper and nailfiles and will be defeated soon. A lot of work still has to be done...

May be this cause is a noble one, but I dont feel like to use another canopy on that. And bwana Novokits had offered me canopy from his Su-35 and I refused too. Thank you both, but this kit will have the canopy with which it was born and which it deserves. And by now I can see something through it, so it is declared transparent and will be more so with Glanzer or Future. I used plain cloth, and yes, tamiya polishing pastes and GOI cant do much here.

Im working with this exactly because there is no other, Im enjoying the process and still think that it is possible to get a passable result

May be I should try polishing with some smooth synthetic fabric? Previously I was dealing with Zvezda's canopy for FW-190 and everything went fine...

Canopy is almost a disaster. I've tried polishing it, results are not encouraging. Well, I've rode of some scratches and fingerprints on outside surfaces, but there is a scratch inside and plastic is of very soft variety and not going transparent enough despite all my efforts. May be dipping in acrylic varnish would help? Folded wings? I've said... no, written in plain Ru... no, English, that And it will. So no canards, tail hook and folding wings, I have plenty of troubles already Current state is on the photo, I attached nose cone and made new, more pointed tip of the tail one. Wings sanding is in process.

There is no beauty to see through the canopy but yes, it definitely would be polished. I cant do anything with the yellowish tint but it would shine. Like a fancy diamond

Oh, spirit of scalemodels is alive and well But the same could be said about my Sukhoi. It finally has got the hen house aka cockpit. Not the best one, but now there is no yawning gap at the back and something looking more like a instrument panel at the front. Anyway, not a lot would be seen under the canopy even when it 'd be polished. Fuselage was glued together and now is drying and Im trying to do something with missiles.

Not much. Here are some photos. First is a glimpse of how it was - intakes, interior and airbrake. Airbrake was stiffened and then glued into place - see second photo. Also on that you can see a small plug near fuselage's tail cone. It was done to make easy assembling halves of fuselage - upper was shorter than lower, now they're equal. Third photo - main landing gear before and after the Mole and disassembling. I hope tomorrow I'm finishing assembling of the interior. By the way, what colour it is? Some shade of light blue, I suppose.

There is nothing remarkable to show yet.

Thanks, but I have Behemoth's and Zvezda decals for Su-33 and all of them have same problem. Colour shift. Most decal producers refuse to get the simple fact that Russian side numbers with thin white outline are almost impossible to print as a single element. Slightest colour shift is clearly visible on those, and I plan to use them on this kit if somethin better could not be found.

Its such a pity we have so little chance to listen to your perfect Oxbridge pronunciation. I.e. no chance at all Oh. that was that chance Oh yes, he've got it! Seems, my caveman English is understandable in the end [of the day] Making of the Su-27 is the first reason why I dont want to add your Nakotne to my two. Second is that kit is very crude, lot of sanding (including 150 paper (or it is fabric already, judging by the base), and assembling of used or new one makes no difference. No, wing chord of Nakotne's kit is several millimetres SHORTER, than of Su-33 kits. Of Su-27s I cant say much, but I cant rid of the feeling that wings are too narrow. May be I watched too many carrier planes Zvezda's canopy is no match for Hasegawa's. Some cross sections of Zvezda's kit fuselage are wrong (but although Hasegawa got them right, it made wrong those good in Zvezda's). Japanese kit done better, with fine surface details, so if somebody wants Su-33 out of the box the Hasegawa is preferred choice. I just feel no mercy on it. It have to be done and it will be done! A-a-a-argh!! Today I was dealing with wing and intakes, and nose cone with interior parts are still soaking in the "Mole". It works, but slowly. Really, no idea what to do with the cockpit and instrument panel, and sight, and seat. Something have to be made with them but I dont feel like it. Any suggestions?

Ok, what we have for today? First - two photos of Su-33 before breaking up. Not the worse case, but paint job have some "peculiarities". Second - what is done for today. Upper part of fuselage have been stripped of paint, mostly by sanding, but in the area of gun "gills" by rubbing with cloth damped in isopropanol. All panel lines have been rescribed, the same is going to happen with the lower part. I've decided to use fuselage, tails, stabilizers, intakes and, of course, canopy of the Su-33, but still not sure what to do with the nose cone. It has thick and uneven coat of white paint, the best solution would be to throw it in the "Mole", but first I have to find the burrow it is hiding and second, to find out if its teeth could do anything with Zvezda Super. If not, Su-30 will come to help. And thanks for commenting, its great to see some friendly persons here!

Now we have fairly accurate and not expensive new Zvezda, so at least your troubles are over if only you get rid of Italeri's kit For perfectionists only solution for now is kitbashing of Hasegawa and Zvezda with major surgery to get fuselage cross-sections right. Or diminishing of requirements for accuracy. Right now I'm making a decision what parts of Su-33 kit should be reused. On one hand, I'd like to use as many parts as possible, on another, I dont want to spent too much time repairing/prepairing them. Anyway, main tool dealing with this kit is sanding stick and paper. And scriber, of course.

I bought MAVI's Su-27K and have relaxed until Hasegawa's kit appeared. Now I have MAVI, Italeri, Hasegawa and new Zvezda and still not sure what I want from all this - Su-33 or J-15. Also I have very strong doubts on accuracy of all those kits, so work promised be terrific anyway. I was considering Attacker for the Wings of Misty Albion GB, but it's too many work ahead and now I need something simple and straightforward. So Attacker still in storage waiting for its time and - who knows? - may be that time will come in 2018.

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

Первым из найденных мной вариантов оказался BuNo 16024 из VMA-131, изобильные фотки оного в указанный в деке период тут: http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/a4m/A-4M_160024.htm Что мы видим в первые пять минут? Буква Q в хвостовом коде не та, хвостик в деке посередине буквы, на самолете - с краю, линии букв слишком тонкие. MARINES - M и N узковаты. 0024 - четверка с меньшей дыркой. Брюлики другой формы и недотягивают до краев полосы, в названии эскадрильи буквы А шире, чем нужно, на ушах звезды все полоски должны быть одинаковой ширины, а в деке -разные. О чем тут говорить? О том, что каждый, раздобывший шрифт Лонг бич и его аналоги, считает себя знатным декалерисовальщиком? Ну-ну...

Там не просто кажется, там даже если "искажения" по высоте убрать, все равно криво получается, излом фюзеля снизу за крылом у модели больше, чем надо. Расшивка - это отдельная песТня... А, да, за вот это: Сей папелац является палубным вариантом скайрайдера, отдельное спасибо. Палубный вариант "Скайрейдера"... Не палубный вариант в студию!!! Это к вопросу знакомства разработчиков с прототипом, должно быть.

Да что фонарь?! Я вот не могу понять, почему фюзель короткий и толстый? Приложил к фоткам - вообще ни в дугу. Это как? Или фотки литников такие жуткие?

штурмовика хватит не на десяток и не на два вылетов, он более гибок в выполнении ударной мисии, кроме того, он может делать и другое - и разведку, и ту же дозаправку. Оно самолеты проектируют не из-за того, что они дешевле крылатых ракет.