by hand. No pilot figure is included.
The fuselage breakdown has top and bottom
halves, with separate two-piece intakes
to fit on each side ahead of engines. There
is a reasonable amount of detail inside the
main wheel well. The single wheel nose leg
is made up of seven components, including
the neatly-moulded FOD guard. There are six
Alamo air-to-air missiles, two being infrared-
guided and four radar-guided. I substituted
these missiles with a set from my stash that
appeared to have a more correct overall length.
The only area that required a small amount
of filler and sanding smooth was the wing to
fuselage seams. The instructions did not mention
it but I added some weight to the nose cone area,
keeping it in place by glueing a round bulkhead
from plasticard inside the forward fuselage.
The louver detail moulding for the engine
air intakes and those around the fuselage
mounted gun are well represented. The nose
gear looks weak and added weight could
put a strain on it, so care was taken to avoid
breakage; on future models I would add some
SAC white metal legs for added strength.PAINTING AND DECALS
This kit can be built as one of three options.
The Russian Air Force and the Viet Nam Air
Force Flankers have the standard three-tone
camouflage of light blue and two shades of
light grey. The Russian Su-27 is numbered
blue and white 36 and is based at Murmansk- The Viet Nam machine is a red 6002
and is based at Phu-Cat airbase, 2015.
The third option is for a Su-27 of the People’s
Liberation Army Air Force that participated
in China-Thailand exercises, Tahkli Air Base,
Thailand 2015. This Flanker is finished in light
ghost grey top and light grey lower surfaces. A
large Chinese flag decorates the forward nose
area and it carried the yellow tail number 11230.
The decals also include seat belts,
but I preferred to hand-paint the raised
detail on the Pavla seats, as these look
far more realistic. A full set of stencilling
is included for the different liveries.
My choice fell on the Chinese one and
the Russian one. The Chinese Flanker is
better known as the Shenyang J-11, currently
manufactured by the Shenyang Aircraft
Corporation for PLAAF. I did not bother with
weathered paintwork, knowing from the
pictures I have studied that Flankers are
kept quite shipshape most of the time.CONCLUSION
In the same manner as the several Sukhoi-27s I
have previously made from this tooling, this was
an enjoyable build, especially as the decals come
with a selection of more recent liveries. It is a kit to
be recommended, as the assembly goes together
well, and even built out-of-the-box it makes it into
an impressive machine. And if you add the Pavla
cockpit set it does not look like a 27-year old kit.
My thanks to the Hobby Company Italeri’s UK
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