The Scaremonger

Impressive pictures, Ken & Chris! Thanks a lot.

Wrong, which was already pointed above. The windshield's got the exact slope (or angle) that the one Mr Yufei Mao devised for his Fairy-Hobby vac-form correction set years ago. Canopy is indeed 1mm taller than the one in the abovementioned set. The Hobby Boss clear pieces have got no "bubble-form" to them, whatsoever. One accuracy flaw that escaped your wits is the undersized IRST, which is easily fixable (even more if you've got the Fairy-Hobby set).

Nice, Ryan! Could you please upload some pictures of it? Thanks. Cheers, H

I congratulate Mr Max Bryant on loyalty, friendship and commitment to the fellow modellers. We've dealt a kit he offered on the buy and sell, and he refused my offer to refund him some dollars he had to add on his own owing to a silly post office clerk who couldn't even be clear to him the day before about the fare she had previously informed on shipping cost. Max, you rock! Thanks a lot, mate. Cheers,

First is first; sorry to hear about your paps passing, really ought to have weighed that possibility before suggesting it. Swedish bands I'm familiar with are mostly those Gothic Metal ones; my all-fave one being Beseech, but I also use to listen to Amaran, Therion and some Opeth when the mood arises. 'Course are all metal bands no-one of my girls (or even my neighbours) could ever seem to stand while I'm listening to... Not that I ever cared, tho. Have a taste of it. The Otaki 1/48 F-6F kit is still a great kit which, surprisingly, has the correct shape

Alex, the area where the four long hatches are on both sides of the upper fuselage close to the "hump" are not flat at all. This is what's wrong on the Hobby Boss kit. Check the picture below on the right side. The picture on the centre and the left show why the S-curve, which Ken Duffey found on the Zvezda kit, is absent on the LERXes of both kits. The area over those four hatches you speak about are subtly convex towards the LERXes, product of the space made for the main wheel bays underneath, which is where the S-curve generates.

Hi, Don I've got those decals from my 1/48 Hasegawa "Old Fashion" F86F-40 kit which I ain't using. If interested, drop me a PM. Cheers, H

Well, you can easily address that issue by getting the DMold resin correction for either manufacturer. It's like day and night after you've grafted it onto the kit. What I can't still fathom is this thing they say about the shape of the windshield on the Monogram kit being wrong; anybody could please elaborate on it?

Wow... didn't know that it existed a kink on the trailing edge of the SuE wing! Such an impressive job you're doing here, mate.

keen, you've bloody beaten me to it! I didn't do the LERX, tho. Good job, mate. I've also been taking a good look at the windshield and canopy on the Hobby Boss kit; I've compared it to Yufei Mao's vac-form one, and the shape of the Hobby Boss windshield and canopy looks exactly the same; it's not bulbous at all.

Hey, Lisa! How's it going, lass? Welcome to the forums. I really like your user name! Is there an explanation to it? The Monogram 1/48 F-102 is a great kit; huge! Actually, I like the F-106 a little bit more, but they can be both a tad difficult to build because of alignment issues. The most basic of tools will allow you to build that kit - a #11 sharp hobby blade, liquid cement, a couple of files, wet and dry sand paper (600 to 1200 grit), lots of putty and I suggest you have several clothespins or an assortment of rubber bands to hold the glued assemblies together. I sti

Sherlock... but isn't that a typo from the superscript cypher...? So, UncA UncA = Henka Henka...? My God, what a zero cypher you are, bloke!

Oh? So whatever your name may be, I just thought it was Antoine. However, is that something to get all wired up about if Antoine weren't your name? Listen, I neither know nor I care what kind of work might this Uncool bloke have done on you, but clearly, you seem to still be a tad shaken about it, plus, your insisting on me being him is slowly placing you on the unclever side of paranoid. In any case, and as I said in private to your rather obsequious partner above (yes, the one who's way too brave to call someone names over the Internet that it's not even worth answering), I'll be

Left, blokey... Then you go tell Mr Zvezda that The Scaremonger commands that he build an 1/48th scale Su-27 kit, ASAP!

The Scaremonger only builds aircraft in 1/48th scale, but thanks for your attempt anyway, bloke...

Antoine, I'm well sure you understand that the angle at which that Su-35 was pictured greatly emphasizes the shape of the LERX, in which case, I'll have to take a look at the Hobby Boss kit LERX at the same angle to discern whether you're right or not Now, looking at the pictures of the real thing that you've posted, and this picture by Adrián Muñoz above, I'll grant you that the LERX does seem to end too early on the Hobby Boss kit, if you notice how it tappers abruptly against the forward fuselage (check the area before the AOA sensors on the LERX), and perhaps this i

Oh, don't take it so hard on you, Janne... It's only that you've lost your old avatar, that's all. Couldn't be a bad modeller even if you were blindfolded! Cheers, my mate. H

Fox, you're just wasting your time. Safest bet is that he's talking just because air is free, or did you even see him base his sorry spiel on facts...? You'd better spend your time checking on clever modellers who care to post their info based on hard facts, so as keen has done above. @keen: Hat off to you, buddy! Thanks.

Well, that's just in your humble opinion, which doesn't mean it's true, because the width of the LERX on the 1/48 Hobby Boss J-11/Flanker B kit is not wrong in width whatsoever; while it does lack the gentle S-shaped curve that Mr Duffey kindly pointed out.

Not sure whether you are aware of these pictures, courtesy of Adrian Munoz on BM, but the size issue of the Academy kit compared to the Hobby Boss one is quite evident on them. Also, I still recall there was this bloke from Croatia here on ARC who once added those missing 160mm to the length of the fuselage of the Academy kit and, after he did so, I remember him placing both his lengthened fuselage to a fresh Academy Flanker fuselage, side by side. I refused to build the Academy Flanker as it was, after having watched that difference. It was so a

Yes, they did. Jari is "da man"

Now that I'm able to see this picture, dunno whether this comparison could be any accurate to judge about the problems on the frames of the windshield and canopy on the Hobby Boss kit, if you care to check the round profile of the kit radome where it joins the forward fuselaje, and then compares it against that on the airwar plans. And that doesn't go without the fact that no-one could ever affirm to vouch for the accuracy of the airwar plans. It's hair-splitting to do so that way. Now, the IRST does look undersized.

Hi, keen! Well, so much for the pictures... What's with the frames of the windshield and canopy like? Didn't catch up on that. Been going through both threads on BM, and now I think I'm more puzzled than I was before... Aren't the HobbyBoss 1/48 Su-27 and J-11 kits exactly the same? Am I to take it that there's an issue with the shape of the LERX on these kits as well? Something related to the engine nacelles being undersized and the circumference of the exhausts being wrong? There's even one bloke going about the tail fins being narrow? Please clarify. Tha

I've checked the washout issue on my J-11B kit and it's actually there, as noticeable on Pep's picture. Also, is it true that the IRST is all wrong and undersized? Please advise.

Hi, Max! PM inbound.