Fellow Hobbyist Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 (edited) My present build project. The instructions made little sense when it came to cockpit assembly. If I followed the directions the ejection seat would have wound up where the center stick was supposed to go. Initially all I wanted to do was just make a new plate to sit the seat onto and drill a new hole just ahead of the ejection seat for a shortened control stick. But never leaving things well alone I have almost completed building an entirely new cockpit tub. I cut small sections of plastic stock to make simple rudder pedals, two side consoles, bent a wire to represent a thrust lever and have glued quadrilateral pieces on the sides for the walls. I hope to add a bulkhead just under the gray cockpit shroud to completely encapsulate the cockpit section. If you notice I also painted the instrument panel to bring an otherwise flat piece of plastic to life. Note: This is not supposed to be precisely to scale to the Su-27. But the empty cavity that would have been the cockpit simply wouldn't do. Edited May 19, 2012 by Fellow Hobbyist Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 Oh I remember that one :D Think it was the first ever model of the Su-27 and nobody had seen it other than ob hazy photos :P Boy, did things change after 1990... Happy building! :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fellow Hobbyist Posted May 19, 2012 Author Share Posted May 19, 2012 Correct me if I'm mistaken but did Revell base the old Flanker kit on a line drawing from a "Jane's All the World's Aircraft" of the era. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
majortomski Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 And it was one of Revell's first kits done in China or Korea. The fix for the "as is" cockpit was to NOT glue it to the nose wheel bay. It needed to just be glued up in the upper fuselage half where it properly aligned the seat with the back of the cockpit. Built one back in 89-90 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TaiidanTomcat Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 Note: This is not supposed to be precisely to scale to the Su-27. But the empty cavity that would have been the cockpit simply wouldn't do. Well explained! Its going to be cool to see a rather poorly shaped kit done very well Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Flankerman Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 Its a re-boxing by Revell of a kit first issued by Tsukuda - and is very inaccurate. The conclusion I wrote is..... This kit is a caricature of the Flanker and bears only a passing resemblance to it. It would take a great deal of work to make it into a decent replica (see my article ‘Fixing Flanker’ in SMI October 1989) and it has been superceded by later kits. The Revel Su-27 has also appeared under the Tsukuda and Kangnam labels - different boxes, same kit. For more, see the entry in my Flanker Kits Survey (the second entry under 1/72 scale kits). Happy Flankering !!!! Ken Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fellow Hobbyist Posted May 20, 2012 Author Share Posted May 20, 2012 Filling the erroneous vents on either side of the air brake is an easy prospect. However fixing the tail boom will be more challenging. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fellow Hobbyist Posted June 1, 2012 Author Share Posted June 1, 2012 Anyway some modest progress In did not like the idea of the louver vents. Why give me pieces depicting compressor stage faces if the vent and ramp will just block the view? So I omitted the vents all together and sanded the walls smooth. I also got rid of the two injection holes directly behind where the vents would have gone. Since the intake ramps and the step at the back of the piece would make it almost impossible to see the last injection hole I decided to leave it alone. I also filled the step at the front of the intake will a small strip of plastic card and filled with super glue and talc powder. The front lip of the intake was formed with latex-based wood filler putty and sanded to shape. Lastly the compressor face pieces were cleaned up and painted. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fellow Hobbyist Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 (edited) The intakes were glued to the bottom fuselage half a few days ago. These pieces did not fit very well as they tended to bow out required gently squeezing the pieces as I attached it in places with superglue. One intake piece still require copious amount of superglue with a spritz of accelerator to fix one stubborn corner. The fit was still pretty poor with large steps on both sides of the joint between the intake and fuselage pieces. I can hear it now....PSR...PSR...PSR! Shot of compressor stages within the intakes. Edited June 6, 2012 by Fellow Hobbyist Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tonal Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Hi FH, great to see the project your working on considering it's condition, I was wondering have you ever use a candles heat to gently expand a part you want to fit? I've noticed on these forums that this technique was applied and was on point. Just a thought. Keep up the great work your doing on this bird. Tonal B) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fellow Hobbyist Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 I tried that technique years ago on a 1/48 monogram F-15....and ended up ruining it . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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