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Sukhoi Su-15TM Flagon F - TRUMPETER 1/48


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Greetings from Athens/Greece.

This is my 114th build. Construction started in 2009 and ended in 2011 after almost 23 months.

There are 77 WIP slides but due to the limitations of this forum you 'll be seeing 10 at a time so please be patient.

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to be continued...

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It's not totally off, some filters and it'll look close. But it looks closer to Tamiya's light blue...

The second picture was one of the pictures I used as reference. I wouldn't paint my Flagon's cockpit light blue if had an option. I thought Turquoise was close enough so I used it.

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One of my favorite cold war jets (this thing must have been a beast to land with all that weight and those tiny wings), a fantastic build AND a fantastic tutorial as well. Thanks very much for taking the time to post all this.

PS - why would you spend all that time detailing the engine nozzles just to cover up all that hard work with those covers?

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One of my favorite cold war jets (this thing must have been a beast to land with all that weight and those tiny wings), a fantastic build AND a fantastic tutorial as well. Thanks very much for taking the time to post all this.

PS - why would you spend all that time detailing the engine nozzles just to cover up all that hard work with those covers?

You guessed right. The landing speed of this beast was very high. 290km/h - maybe more!

PS - I did not put the covers on the nozzles. I placed them beside the aircraft (on the model's base) instead.

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Most Flagon kits get the intakes wrong - they are not straight sided - but canted out at the top......

My walkround pics are here.

Ken

Maybe a bit late, but here are couple of my old army photos from Anadyr AFB(click for full size):

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Hi guys,

I am not really sure what is wrong with the kit's intakes. Maybe Flankerman can provide some more details since he raised the issue in the first place. But if the problem is the tilt to the vertical I think Trumpeter has got it right. Have a look at a (poor) photo of the finished model:

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