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  1. CDW
    Great looking, all your hard work paid off!
  2. CDW
    Welcome aboard Mike!
  3. CDW
    Wing fold dry-fit preview. The wing fold hinge detail is very good straight from the box.
  4. CDW
    The kit provides the option for extended or folded wings and stabilizers. I chose the folded wings option which includes dropped flaps. Extended wing version has flaps raised.
  5. CDW
    Fuselage halves fit together very well. Very little cleanup will be required. That’s the way I like it. Particularly at this small scale, too much sanding will obliterate the fine recessed details and it’s a ton of work to restore it if lost.
  6. CDW
    Thanks for stopping by Phil
  7. CDW
    Thanks Ken. I will check it out and see.
  8. CDW
    One of the benefits of doing an exercise as above...I now know that Mr Hobby Acrysion emerald green is a near match (and a viable substitute) for Mig Ammo turquoise green (Russian cockpit color). The Mr Hobby Acrysion line of paints are acrylic, but readily reducible using Mr Color 400 Levelling Thinner (lacquer). Like Tamiya acrylics, Mr Hobby Acrysion paints ARE NOT water-based acrylics, but instead a sort of hybrid acrylic that can readily be thinned with IPA or lacquer thinner. Mig Ammo acrylics are water based. Try thinning them with lacquer thinner and you will have a mess on your hands. IMHO, either Tamiya or preferably Mr Color paints thinned with Mr Color 400 Levelling Thinner give a superior finish. The downside with Tamiya paints is the small line of colors. However, they can be custom mixed to achieve the color desired using the colors from their range of paints. At one time I found a online resource for the mix ratios for various popular colors, but I have lost it.
  9. CDW
    At this point, my cockpit is already painted and I have no desire to go back and change it, but for future reference, I agree that #5 is the closest match to the photo color. Just goes to show how futile it can be to try and trust the paint manufacturer or model company.
  10. CDW
    Just for grins and giggles, I made color sample swatches of 5 different paint colors from my inventory: 1. Mig Ammo interior turquoise green (Russian cockpit green) 2. Mr Hobby Acrysion emerald green 3. Mr Color aircraft gray (Trumpeter call out) 4. Mig Ammo ocean gray 5. Mr Color air superiority blue Which of these 5 colors do you think most closely represents what is seen in the cockpit photo?
  11. CDW
    She came out beautiful, Mike
  12. CDW
    A lot of it will be the amount of light in the photograph. Shadows are going to make it look darker, too. In any event, 1:72 scale lends to the most artistic license for interpretation. So little of it will ever be seen, it's like dancing on the head of a pin. Now the fuselage colors become much more relevant to me but the cockpit, not so much.
  13. CDW
    Agree 100% on the reference check. There are surprisingly few photos of the Su-33 cockpit on the net, but the ones I have seen show what I would call a blue-gray and black color combination, but not the aqua color seen on earlier Russian aircraft. I have what's supposed to be the aqua cockpit color in Mig Ammo acrylic but it does not look like the photos.
  14. CDW
    Here is a photo I found on the net for the Su-33 Flanker D cockpit. My kit came with a pilot figure, and I may use it this time around. Usually I don't use it.
  15. CDW
    But I am not 100% sure it’s the same for the more modern aircraft. I keep noticing that kit instructions call out a different color for the more modern Russian aircraft. Need to check references.
  16. CDW
    What’s odd is that the Trumpeter color call out for the interior is for Mr Color H73 which I used. However, to the best of my knowledge it should be aqua green but I just didn’t want to use acrylic paints this time around.
  17. CDW
    You are correct on the aqua blue. As I was saying in an earlier post, I put in an order for the correct colors in Mr Color lacquer, but it hasn't arrived yet. I cheated by using a blue-gray color I had on hand. In the not-too-distant future, I will be building a 1:48 Su-33 Flanker D by Minibase. This kit may very well be the most detailed 1:48 scale jet aircraft model ever made. At that time, I will give my complete attention to every little detail being correct, but this time, I am winging it, just having some fun with a small scale model. By the time I get around to doing the exterior, the correct lacquer paint colors will be in my possession.
  18. CDW
    Trumpeter does a nice job of boxing the delicate parts with protective foam wrap to prevent damage in transit. Nice touch. the fuselage halves fit together very well and it appears that very little or no putty will be needed to clean up the join lines once it’s all glued together.
  19. CDW
    Determined to do this one out of box, the cockpit is rather spartan. However at 1:72 scale, not a whole lot will be seen once it’s finished anyway. I picked out the side panel and control panel details in black, white, blue, and red. Then finished it off with a grime wash. The kit provides side panel and main panel decals but I decided to do mine with a brush instead of the decals. Builders choice. Next, it’s on to the wheel wells, speed brake internals, and intakes.
  20. CDW
    One of my favorite battleships of WW2, the lines of it are remarkable. You've done an outstanding job of capturing a realistic battle worn look.
  21. CDW
    Thanks Lou
  22. CDW
    Mr. Color has a huge line of colors, hundreds. It would be nice if I knew how to mix my own for the various shades, but I take the more expensive (and lazy) way out by buying the individual shades I want. My vendor charges 2.50 per bottle. Postage varies with quantity, but I just bought 15 bottles where shipping was 9.95. I could have bought as many bottles as I wanted, and it still would have been 9.95, max. scalehobbyist dot com
  23. CDW
    They are just as volatile as they ever were as far as I can tell, but the thinner I use has a retarder built in that allows the paint to level out before it completely dries, and that leaves a beautiful level finish. You need a paint booth with an exhaust fan as well as a respirator. Since you've used Floquil, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
  24. CDW
    Thanks Chris
  25. CDW
    Not much is worse than building a nice model then getting a bad paint job on top of it. My success ratio is much higher with lacquer. This trend goes all the way back to my days of painting 1 :1 cars and trucks. I have always got better, consistent results with lacquer.

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