Aigore Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Delicious looking pit! and the wells look smashing! :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JFVicente Posted July 4, 2014 Author Share Posted July 4, 2014 (edited) Hi again! Many thanks for your elogies, Janne. Here I am with new photos of the progress. next step was to attach the windshield, so here is it together with the canopy, both of them masked ready for painting: On the lower fuselage, just in front of the air intakes there are few little pipe vents protruding fron the airframe. I found those little details watching at the Ip build of Marcel111 here in this forum, (Ukranian Blue 56) so I decide that I needed to incorporate them on my build. So I drilled small holes and inserted few pieces of small syringe needels: There are also a couple of them just behind the starboard main wheel bay: Finally I was able to give a coat of ms Surfacer to the entire airframe in preparation for painting: And here is it, all painted: I will be building the red 80 from the 2nd AS of the 279Th Carrier Aviation Fighter Regiment, that with the tiger head on the tail: Red 80 Looking at the pictures of several Su-33s that I found over the web I discovered that the camo patern varies slighlty from aircraft to aircraft so the painting was done paying great attention to the pics of this particural aircraft... Also I want to display the aircraft with some kind of "ambience" and aboard the Admiral Kuznetsov carrier, so i will be building something like this: So I bought the Olimp Resin Accesories carrier dexk tractor and I am at present building from scratch the elevator area That,s all for now! I will be posting more pictures of the progress the next week. Wait for your opinions and suggestions. Have a nice weekend! Juan Edited December 11, 2018 by JFVicente Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Flankerman Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 It's coming along nicely Juan - it looks like you have a great diorama planned. One thing I did with my model to improve the look was to thin down the 'webs' on either side of the tailboom. As moulded by Hasegawa, they are way too thick..... They are just thin plates on the real thing..... Ken Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tripio Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Hello Juan, the Flanker is amazing. Well done! Regards,Laz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JFVicente Posted July 9, 2014 Author Share Posted July 9, 2014 Many thanks Ken and Laz for your comments It's coming along nicely Juan - it looks like you have a great diorama planned. One thing I did with my model to improve the look was to thin down the 'webs' on either side of the tailboom. As moulded by Hasegawa, they are way too thick..... They are just thin plates on the real thing..... Ken Ken, many thanks for your suggestion, I was not aware of that detail until it was too late and the kit was painted. Altought I am sometimes a bit anal about this kind of details/corrections I think that I will have to live with this on this occasion as I don,t have the guts to sand that area now that the kit is almost ready to by glossed... Thanks again anyway... RGDS Juan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 What a gorgeous paintjob! I really like the idea of the presentation of the kit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KRI76 Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 really awesome paint job! what colors did you use? /Kristian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JFVicente Posted August 27, 2014 Author Share Posted August 27, 2014 (edited) Hi again! Many thanks Janne and Kristian for your kind words. Sorry for this late response, but with the summer, the holidays and so... you know... what colors did you use? /Kristian Kristian, for the painting I went with the colours/mixes recommended by Hasegawa on their instructions as a basis, but I modified them adding some other shadows or blue and white and grays, trying to achieve the hues observed on many photos found around the web. HTH I will try to update this thread this evening or tomorrow at least. RGDS Juan Edited August 27, 2014 by JFVicente Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Fantastic painted!! Great work! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JFVicente Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 Hi again! Many thanks Mario for your words. I,m here with a new update, not exactly on the aircraft itself, but with the work on the sorruonding things that will go on the diorama, meanwhile the paint was drying on the kit. The towing bar on the Olimp model set was so buried on resin and aside of that it was slightly bent. So I decided to rebuilt it from scratch. I started with a cooper rod inserted on the plastic tube wich contains the ink of a conventional pen, cutted to the appropiate lenght: The rest of the details were built from Evergreen styrene, electric cable with its own coating, or other diameters of cooper rod, like on the wheel legs and some of them grabbed from the original fresin part: And here is the bar painted and with some scratched. I slightly scratched the paint to show some wearing, and still have to aply some washes: And here some other accesories for the diorama. The ladder and FOD covers are from the Zvezda Su-27SM (exquisitely moulded for this scale, by the way) and the wheel PE chocks are from the Olimp resin set: More to follow in some minutes... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JFVicente Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 Some more progress, now on the base itself. As show previously I want to represent an elevator of the Kuznetshov. I bought on a DIY store a sheet of transparent plastic called "arraglas". This is a transparent sheet aimed to framing pictures. It,s far cheapper that the modeling styrene and it works fine with our regular adhesives and paints. I cutted it to shape and began working with it. Frirstly, I sanded it with rough sandpaper to give the texture of a carrier deck. Then drilled those holes intended to represent the tie down points. Then I covered such holes by the bottom with styrene and attached pieces of styrene rod to depict the tie points themselves: I applied a blob of Mr surfacer on top of every of them to give some rough texture, and added those longitudinal strips of evergreen to add more detail. I have not been able to find detailed pictures of those details, so this has been the most that I have been able to do from the photos find on the web. Then I built from styrene sheet the structures that you see on the nearest end of this picture: And built, also from styrene rod that hanging fences, that I guess they are intended to prevent falls overboard: And here is the tractor. I replaced some resin from the mudguards over the wheel and replaced them with styrene sheet: Here is how this composition will look when finished: And this is all by the moment. I have the base and the tractor painted and have just finished to apply the decals to the kit, but still have not took the photos. Hope you like the progress and would like to hear yor opinions. Rgds. Juan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sebastijan Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Amazing job, Juan! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Amazing job!! Fantastic!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Air-to-Air Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 It's looking sensational. The aircraft looks good and the carrier lift deck is a great idea. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
supergru Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Juan, you make me jealous with that towing bar and flight deck details. A work of a master or masterwork? Excellent work on diorama. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JFVicente Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Hi again! Many thanks for your interest and comments. I have a new update here. Next step was decaling the bird. For this I used some decals from the Hasegawa kit, like red stars, numeral and the tiger of the tailfin. For the stencils I went with thevery comprehensive sheet of Begemot decals for the Su-27/-33 family. There were a myriad of little stencils...I was a bit concerned about aplying a glos coat in preparation for the decals. As I said, previously the panal lines on the kit are so subtle that I could easily cover them with the gloss, making dificult the susequent washes. So I tryied applied the decals without the gloss coat, dipping them in future thinned with water directly over the paintjob. This was a first for me and must say that the pocess went without anny issue and the result was very convenient, at least for me. The only thing is that I ended with the kit full of bright spots over it, but this will disappear with subsequent treatments. Here is the bird, all decaled: And some close ups. I was not very happy with the color of the tiger head on the decal. It is too orange compared with the real one: With all that yellow stencils I felt that the general aspect of the kit was too "colorful", so I tried to made the stencils more subtle. I sprayed a coat of every single color very diluted, freehand and over the decals. This was the result: This also helped to hide the bright spots that I said previously. The next step in the process should have been the washes, I hate this method. I haver never been able of achieving a good result with oils, runing sometimes the paint when trying to remove them. I have been using for some time tempera paints with water for this task , but I find this quite "dirty". So I tryed a new method: I found this felt pens some time ago and decided that this was the appropiate chance to give them a try: So I drew every panel line with the dark blue: More to follow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChippyWho Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Seriously impressive work on the towing bar and tractor. This is a really great project! The wash medium you chose looks interesting; the only problem with washable (or watercolor) pigments is that they are just that -any subsequent clear finish can make them run, and sometimes even the moisture on your skin is enough to make them come off on your fingers! Hopefully this one will work out well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JFVicente Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Seriously impressive work on the towing bar and tractor. This is a really great project! The wash medium you chose looks interesting; the only problem with washable (or watercolor) pigments is that they are just that -any subsequent clear finish can make them run, and sometimes even the moisture on your skin is enough to make them come off on your fingers! Hopefully this one will work out well. Thanks Chippywho for your comment and your warning about the wasable colors. I was worry about extent but have to say that I have the matt coat applied by now ( not pics still) and all went without any problem. I used Marabu thinned with tumpentine and the washes were not affected. Want to show how the washes ended. The excess was removed with a cotton swab slightly damped with water. The result was a subtle paneling, wich I am very satisfied: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Looking fantastic, mate! interesting way for a panel wash! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChippyWho Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Thanks Chippywho for your comment and your warning about the wasable colors. I was worry about extent but have to say that I have the matt coat applied by now ( not pics still) and all went without any problem. I used Marabu thinned with tumpentine and the washes were not affected. Want to show how the washes ended. The excess was removed with a cotton swab slightly damped with water. The result was a subtle paneling, wich I am very satisfied: Certainly can't argue with the result! Very nice and refined. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 (edited) whoops...double post. Edited September 24, 2014 by Aigore Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arne Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Excellent Work !!! :thumbsup: The Flightdeck is very interesting !! - this Tractor i have ist too, but my exemplar is totally warped ... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Great work!!! :_) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ruud Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 The great work continues! Nice build! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Thadeus Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 (edited) This is very nice! I really like how the camouflage came out :) Interesting decaling technique. Edited September 25, 2014 by Thadeus Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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