Scale Aviation Modeller International – March 2019

signiicant location aids or

obvious positions to it them

into the wheel wells (such as

they are). Hum, this is going

to be one of those ‘modelling

skills required’ kind of builds

I think, I wonder if I have

any these days. I skipped this

for the moment (seriously,

making up the main gear and

installing it in a well - more of

a sheet of plastic actually and

attaching the gear doors as

the irst stage?) and moved to

Stages 5 and 6, which make up

the engine nacelles (with full

trunking to the compressor

faces and turbine detail) and

the aforementioned ‘wells’.

A problem here is that the

kit trunking tapers as they

pass over the wheel well and

then stay at that diameter.

Apparently on the real aircraft

the intake trunk opens up

again after passing the main

Apparently twelve of these aircraft were

built, and of the ten remaining, five are

operated by Russia and the other five by

the Ukrainian Navy.

SU-25UTG

MANUFACTURER: KPM

SCALE: 1:

KIT TYPE: Injection moulded (limited

run)

KIT NUMBER: KPM

PANEL LINES: Recessed

PARTS: About 170 (not all used) plus

small etched sheet, 9 resin parts and

canopy masks

KIT DETAILS

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