Global Scale Modeller

It's Russian, did anyone expect me not to take part! For this build i will be using the drool worthy hobbyboss 1:48 kit and a first for me, a whole bunch of aftermarket including some or fewer parts torn from the edademy kit i built last year.

Well, here, for me at least, is the big pile of aftermarket i will be using for this build, begemot decals,reskit rocket launchers, armory unguided missile racks, aires engines, brassin wheels, a pitot tube and some as yet undetermined bits ripped from the eduard version i built last year including the seat.
Made a start with the cockpit, primed with Ultimate grey primer then ak cockpit turquoise followed by picking out all the details with a really small brush. Some drybrushing with a lightened shade of cockpit colour then a dark dirt Ultimate wash.

Made a start on the boat load of ordnance, kit missiles in white, resin rocket pods and got the unguided missiles together, those tail fins were interesting! Also got the majority of the landing gear together, a mix of kit and eduard brassin.

Well, after what seems like an age faffing about with little bits i got to the stage where the big bits start to go together and she is starting to look flankery, with any luck i could get main assembly done tomorrow.

Assembly completed and wearing a coat of Ultimate primer, next up is rear wheel wells and underside mottling.

And the underside marbling done with two grey shades.

Got the basic camo down, need some finessing but getting there, liking the mr hobby paints even if they are a bit shiny.

The rest of the topside painted, just the nozzles and underside metallic bits left. Then to finish off the ordnance, gear, gear doors and decals before weathering.

Decals on and both types behaved themselves with no silvering and sunk into the panel lines easily, as the paint was glossy to start with i didn't bother with a clear coat.

Heat staining done on the engines, highly thinned gw inks over a base of mr hobby supermetallic steel and alclad steel for the darker tones.

Nice work on that Su-27 well done

Thanks Antonio, next up was one of those stages that look really impressive but take surprisingly little effort or talent, using Ultimate dark dirt to pick out all the surface detail, brush on, wipe off with dampened kitchen roll and job done!

Done quite a bit of work on the engines and can't quite remember how but i think after the steel colours and inks it went, rust wash, burnt iron on nozzles, gunmetal pigment, steel pigment, oily steel wash and finally black oil wash or something like that. Also whilst looking at pictures i spotted that the chaff dispensers should be steel so repainted and washed those. Next up is flat coat and pastel/pigments for the main airframe.

Blasting job on the exhausts

So close to being done, just the gear door actuators and needle sharp pitot tube to paint now.