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Guys, Was wondering, what was the first Russian/Soviet Union aircraft to go into production that had air to air refueling capabilities? Was it the Su-24? Steven

Had this flavor in mind Thanks for stopping by! Steven

Attack Squadron makes some. you may have to search around them. Maybe check ebay

Whiskey are you asking about what’s my inspiration for my forward swept wing Flanker? If so, it’s the Hasegawa Macross 29 VF-31 Siegfried Hayate Custom "Macross Delta” Thanks guys! Steven

Here you can see the area that was filled, reshaped to fit the Kinetic tail plane. I also filled, sanded and rescribe panel lines where the resin stabilizers and body meet. Here she is with her custom engine accessories, tail planes and resin stabilizers in place. I noticed that I didn't post about how I got her folding wing parts on. Opp! Next post I guess! Thanks for stopping by! Steven

Here you can see my engine part and the Amigo part on the model. As well as great straight cutting abilities Got to fill in that gap! I then molded my engine part and cast a copy for the other side. I did not like how the horizontal stabilizers of the Hobbyboss kit came together. There is a small open/vent? At the base of it which after gluing the two halves together, required a bit of clean up. The horizontal stabilizers from the Kinetic kit had much better surface detail and was molded in one piece and the rudder is positionable. So, I molded and cast a set of stab

Thanks Aigore Time for an update on my Su-34 Sea Flanker. From the start, I was planning to put vector thrust nozzle on her. Amigo Models has a beautiful set of nozzles for Great Wall Su-35. But it’s going to take some work to get them to fit the Hobbyboss Su-34 kit. The Amigo nozzles consisted of 5 parts. I needed to get part RP03 to fit the Hobbyboss kit. Moreover, this area on the kit had far less detail than the Amigo part. And I did not want to just add the resin swivel part of the kit. And after cutting away the kit area and checking how close the Am

Hi guys, It’s been some time since I last posted. Life, work, summer along with being lazy. All three builds are still going and the Bad girl who was the farthest behind. Her problem was her panel line on her wings. What do they look like? How can I sketch out some panel line ideas? And then how do I get those panel line on the model? I started by printing out the wing template to figure out how I was going to make the wing and use it to figure out how and what her panel lines will look like. After a few days of drawing, erasing and redrawing, I finally came up with something I was happy w

VMFA-314 will be first Marine Corps squadron to transition to the C.

Same idea, Different execution

Sick and tired of spilling paint, liquid cement, thinner? Here’s an easy fix. All you need as a circle template(or a pair of divider) some foam core and a hot glue gun. First, measure the diameter of whatever jar or bottle you want to secure. Next, measure and cut the base. Make sure it has at least 1 inch of space around the diameter of your jar or bottle for the supports. Then measure and cut the supports, making sure they are tall enough to support but not too much so that they get in the way of opening and closing. Place your jar or bottle in the center of the base and hot glue the support

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Is been a while since I posted an update. To be honest, I’ve been struggle just how I was going to make the flight control surfaces for my Bad Girl. My first thought was to make templates of all the control surfaces, making sure they fit good and then trace the shape on to a wing, tail plane or horizontal stabilizer of what’s left over from the Academy Su-27UB kit. This would work for the outer leading and trailing edge flaps but not the inner leading edge and inner trailing edge flaps. The sections of these flaps are thicker and would require me to make a top, a bottom and fill in the shape o

Of my three Sea Flankers, my forward swept wing bad girl is the most complicated. There were a few questions I had to answer before I started. Like, having to figure out how to incorporate the design of the wing into the fuselage of the kit? How are they going to attach to the fuselage? How to make the wing to fuselage joint strong as well as having proper aliment in all views? Also, I knew I wanted to show her with her flight controls in an unpowered position. That means making her wing with positional flight controls. Not too worried about scribing panel lines or locations of the weapon pyl

Here’s an update of a bunch of odds and ins. Let’s start with the carrier based Su-34. Like her Su-33 sister, she has a shorten tail. I cut 42 mm out of her tail and glued it back together. On to her intakes, the hobbyboss kit has these two panel on the inboard side of the intake that you are suppose of fill with two kit parts. Parts like this never fit properly. And since I’m going make some intake covers so you can not see the next step. I added some styrene backing on the inside of the intakes where the panels go. And filled them with my favorite putty, super glue

This update is about the Bad Girl of the bunch. For the wings of my carrier based Su-34, I needed a 2nd Su-33. I cut the wings from the upper and lower fuselage halves and threw her into what was becoming the “Parts” box. Upset that I used her for her body wings, I started searching for ideas to get her some new wings. I came across hasegawa anime fighter with some wing that would look sexy on her. After some time in photoshop scaling and printing, I came up with this. Not too sure about the placement of the horizontal stabilizer. This will be my first-time scratch bui

How about some progress of my carrier based Su-34? I have always loved the side-by-side seating of the Su-34 but did not care for her nose. I’m going to give mine a nose job. A rounder look like more like the Su-33 UBK. I turned a new rounder nose for her, but the amount of reconstruction to get it to fit is just not worth it. So, I started looking for other nose ideas and came across an image of a JASDF F-2. Got another piece of high-density foam and started shaping her new nose more like a F-2 radome. Once I was happy with its shape, I wrapped the joint where it me

So, I want to share with you the madness of grafting Academy’s Su-27 UB cockpit area onto Kinetics Su-33 fuselage. I knew it could be done, it would be a matter of accurately cutting and sanding them to get a good joint. Once I got both kits, I marked out the area of the UB I want to cut out. With my Dremel, I started hacking up the UB. What I did was cut way more than what I needed, placed it over top of the Su-33 upper fuselage and started trimming back the UB cockpit area to panel line close to the Su-33. When I got close to the Su-33 panel line, I used a file to true up the cuts

It’s been a while. Been busy blogging and pretending to be a photographer. :) But a few months ago, I heard my work bench calling me and curiously I answered it. For the longest time I have wanted to build a few Sea Flankers but with my ideas. The problem was I never had a good starting point for my builds. Years later, I do now. So, the two ideas I have that I will be building is first, a two seat Su-33 with the seating like a Su-30. And the other is a carrier based Su-34 much like the Su-33 UBK. For the two seat Su-33, I’m going to use Kinetic 1/48 Su-33 kit along with cockpit area of Acade

If anyone has a 1/48 Tamiya F-14 TARPS pod that they are willing to part with, please send me a PM and or email at Far148@gmail.com. Take care, Steven

Inspiration was the title of the second part in my “Exploring my Creativity” series. You can read about my inspiration here https://anadventureinawesome.com/2018/10/14/inspiration/ Cheers, Steven

1. A kit that was properly researched. So, that the finish model shape and surface match the real thing. 2. A kit that its parts are well thought out. Joints and part seams are in logical location and does not require a ton of attention to properly finish. The same goes for how parts are laid out on the sprue. 3. A kit that does not have access panel open. Just mold them shut and if one wants to open them, have them cut it open. 4. A kit with clear and well thought out instructions. I wish some of the newer kit manufactures would take some time and study

I'm game! I'm currently working on a few Sea Flankers! Steven L

About damn time! It's not like it's a 1/18 scale... HaHa! No really, Very Cool Steve What's next for your work bench? Steven L