Θέμα: Sukhoi Su-33 'Flanker-D' - FINISHED

[InFlames]

Hello everyone! This is my first post on this forum and I hope my writing in English won't bother you too much.

I was invited to this forum and to this GB by Amen from ARC, as he knows my passion for Soviet/Russian aviation.

My first build will be 1:72 Hasegawa Su-33 'Flanker-D' with Aires exhausts, Dreammodel PE set and couple of other goodies.
I just decided I will build it as the 5th prototype T-10K-5, which was the first Su-33 I have seen in my life and had an opportunity to sit in the cockpit! It also had an interesting loadout of 2xR-73, 2xR-27, 2xS-25 and 2xB-8 with Sorbstiya ECM pods on the wingtips.


As I am building this model for the Scale Aircraft Modelling magazine, I am not allowed to publish many photos, so I apologize in advance.

Here's the progress so far. I'm slowly getting to the painting stage

[mmaker]

Welcome to our forums,mate!
Brilliant work on the right scale!
Lovely work at the exhausts,with Alclad!

[gtdeath13]

Allright.... I am drewling all over the place... Welcome a-board.... 

[raziera]

Welcome to the forum , nice to have you on the GB.
I'm in love with the alclad painting at the exhausts.

  Kostas

[Amen]

Welcome aboard!  we are glad having you in our GB

Good luck with the Flanker ,rare armament i see and great detail set.You allready made nice progress!! 

[nikosmeta]

This is one hell of a Flanker you are building. You just inspired me of how to paint my exausts on my Su-30mki

[bill-larisa]

welcome,,Great work so far on this Great and Beautiful Aircraft..Great painting on exausts..

[ramfighter]

 
Welcome to our forum. Fabulous work on Flanker's exhausts 

[labros87]

Very nice work on this lovely plane!
I'm waiting for your next post.

[Aeon]

Greets from Greece and a BIG WELCOME to MC forum!!!
Great work and I can see that you decided to ''go to town''  with all those after market goodies!!!
Cant wait to see your update mate! Cheers!!! 

[kwstasb]

Great work my friend! The cockpit and the exhausts are really amazing! After my current project I'm planning on building a Su-27 myself so the exhaust colors you used are going to be my guide for my project!   

[InFlames]

finally some progress - main paintjob done, detail painting will follow soon. I also ordered S-25 unguided heavy rockets.



I have a question here. As I said before, I am building this model as 5th prototype T-10K-5, Blue 69, which was weapons testbed. When I saw this aircraft, it was armed the following way:

Sorbstiya, R-73, 2xS-25, empty, empty, 2xR-27R, empty, empty, 2xB8M, R-73, Sorbsriya

Now as I also have Moskit anti-ship missile which I can use, would you think it would be very wrong if I use it, too. Keep in mind, this airframe was the only one that was photographed with Moskit attached to it and in recent years was only used for static displays at MAKS airshows.

My proposed armament:

Sorbstiya, R-73, 2xS-25, empty, R-27R, Moskit, R-27R, empty, 2xB8M, R-73, Sorbstiya

what do you think?

[Palanadine]

 Great job so far mate!

 As for your loadout question: I too plan to build a Su-33, and since it actually can carry the weapon, i'd say go ahead and mount it!

 It is certain to be an eye-catching point, having that big missile slung underneath!

[nikosmeta]

First I have to say it is great painting  on the model.

Since it was a testbed you can mount almost anything you want without anyone can say anything. It will be for sure very eye catching.

[bill-larisa]

so so beautiful..great painting job..well done...just one question,,this aircraft was painted in two tone camo?

[InFlames]

Thank you everyone!

just one question,,this aircraft was painted in two tone camo?

yes indeed, This aircraft wore several camouflages but from mid 2000s on was wearing only two-tone camo. Originally this aircraft wore 3-tone camo like the first operational examples, though the pattern was different. When it started its tests at Zhukovski it was repainted in two-tone camo, which was later modified again. It is also of interest, that this aircraft was wearing its bort number Blue 69 only on left side of the nose.

[felix]

Amazing work so far and very nice painting. I can wait to see more progress on this one 

[bill-larisa]

Thanks for the reply to my question,,great info and so useful information,keep up the good work

[InFlames]

some progress after a while - the model was gloss coated with Aclad Aqua Gloss and decals were placed

[Amen]

Very nice and clean modeling.Did u have any drying problems whith the alclad acrylic varnish?

Good luck witht them rest!

[InFlames]

Thanks mate! Aqua gloss works like charm - it's dry in about half an hour... I have problems with drying times of their other lacquers though

[InFlames]

finished

designation of the first Flanker I had a chance to sit in its cockpit. Fifth Su-33 prototype in camo colours as seen at MAKS2007 airshow in Zhukovski. Loadout is similar, though I added Moskit anti-ship missile, which was never operational on this type, yet was seen carried by this prototype at one of eariler MAKS airshows.







Full build article with more photos will appear in of the following issues of Scale Aircraft Modelling magazine

[Amen]

Thank you for your participation InFlames,your build  looks so great!  Nice and clean with so interesting armament.
I hope we see more builds from you in the GB.

[kwstasb]

Great job with the flanker my friend! I agree with Amen that the armament is really interesting! 

[nikosmeta]

This is amazing work my friend well done. I hope I will have the chance to read the article at the magazine.....