Poke around here for some interesting foreign schemes… national markings maybe problematic.
Cool, thanks!
[bnghead] Ain’t it great?!?!?
I can’t believe this GB is still going on! When finished with the Mirage I may well build the Mig-21 and post it here.
Do eeeeeeeet.
I need motivation during builds, especially if, erm, sorry, WHEN something goes wrong, so I need this GB. 
Great GBs never really go away…
Lol, porkbits I will, when I’m done with the Mirage I’ll get stuck into the Mig-21 and post it here. I have been snowed under with work lately and the laptop has gone up the left but I will get on it asap when I’m finished with the Mirage 2000, which by the way I’m sort of stuck in a lull I want to build it, but when I do get time I sort of have no motivation. Gotta get my arse in gear.
Pints, mate. Pints.
What better motivation do ye need?
LOL. Truth.
Sounds good, Dean! Would love to see the Mig-21. I have a couple of the Eduard kits.
Lol, Dre I can’t be drinking all the time I’m doing my PT course, but I had some more of the Mirage done and as soon as my computer is fixed I will get pictures of the Mirage up and start the Mig-21, I want to get some resin for it though so it may take a month or two so I can get all the Decals and a couple of Eduard photo etch parts, I’m not gonna bother adding anymore detail to the Mirage I have done the cockpit and I will use kit only parts and have it done with. The Mig may be starting a few months from now, but I wouldn’t mind seeing Dre’s Mig-29M or the Sukhoi PB is building. As for me it will be a while yet.
The MiG-29 is collecting dust- it has a nice winter coat and it would be a shame to dislodge that beautiful pelt…
Aha! Sounds like most of my furniture…
Lol, Dre when you look at the Mig 29 it has some really nice lines going on, you just have to build it to appreciate it, the SU-27 almost looks cumbersome by comparison.
I’d like to finish it, heck I’d like to start it for as much as I’ve done to the kit.
One of these days… one of these days.
MiG group build: Sukhoi ok. what about Yakolev, Tupolov,
Tupolev: Tu-128 – Biggest interceptor (started as a bomber)
Yakolev Yak-28P – Interceptor (started as a light bomber)
OK, guys, first day of vacation, made a run to my LHS, and think I’ve acquired all the aftermarket bits you can possibly get for the Eduard Su-27. So….time to dive into this beast.
But first, of course I need the help of any resident Flanker experten.
I’m doing this popular Ukrainian variant:
Eduard’s instructions indicate that the cockpit should be Aircraft Gray (light gray). However, I also ordered some AKAN acrylics that include a cockpit color for Su-27s that is more of a blue-gray.
Which is correct? I don’t always trust Eduard’s color call-outs, so want to make sure I get it right.
Thanks! And hope everyone is doing well.
PB
I think it depends upon the countries, some have a light grey interior, and others have the anti stressing shade of blue, I think from any SU-27 photos I have seen they used pale blue, but the newer SU-30’s seem to have grey. I think with either you could be correct, I have seen a Ukrainian Flanker with White wheels before, so I would say there are a few variations out there that are rare, I would say the SU-27 would in all probability have the pale blue colours on the interior.
Light blue, if you can zoom on this you will see the canopy frame is the blue.
Thanks, Dean! I saw a similar photo of a Ukrainian Su-27 and noticed the canopy frame was also blue. So I guess the AKAN blue it is. The only wrinkle is that the Eduard photoetch instrument panel is painted a very light gray, but not a huge deal I guess.
Here is a master list (compiled from several sources)
Lavochkin
La-15 Fantail (early jet fighter)
Mikoyan-Gurevich
Mig-9 Fargo (jet fighter late 1940s)
Mig-15 Fagot
Mig-17 Fresco
Mig-19 Farmer
Mig-21 Fishbed
Mig-23 Flogger
MIG-25 Foxbat
Mig-27 Flogger
Mig-29 Fulcrum
Mig-31 Foxhound
Mig-35 Fulcrum-F
Sukhoi
Su-7 Fitter (a plane like the A-7 and Blackburn Buccaneer)
Su-9/11 Fishpot (pure interceptor) looks vaguely like Mig-21
Su-15 Flagon (pure interceptor)
Su-24 Fencer (about as much a fighter as the F-111)
Su-25 Frogfoot
Su-27/30/33 Flanker
Su-32/34 Fullback (another F-111 type)
Tupelov
Tu-128 Fiddler (Puts the long in long range interceptor, shooting down bombers.)
Yakolev
Yak-23 Flora, Early jet fighter
Yak-25 Flashlight (Interceptor)
Yak-28P Firebar
Yak-38 Forger (VTOL)