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Trumpeter 1/32nd SU27

Got the Trumpeter SU-27 Flanker B yesterday from Hannants and might I add that it looks like another nice kit from them.

At first glance the front and main undercarriage has suspension!!! yep tiny icle springs to make the thing bob up and down when coming to a standstill.

Engraved panel lines not up to the scratch of the Academy Hornet but still look good. Open cannon detail and flaps plus vertical stabilizers. Operational Canopy and main airbrake.

One of my criticism's is the canopy, Trumpeter need to sort their tooling out and get rid of that horrible mould line that they seem to have on most of their kits. The other is the lack or no detail for the radome. But they did add a movable Main Drone Shute hatch (with no detail)

So plenty for the aftermarket people to do for us and a £89 kit going on £150 by the time you've added those extra bits.

Apart from that I hope to start on it when I finish the Trumpeter Mil-Hind and Academy Hornet. That would be in about 3 years then?

Spence

Reply to
Warty
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Is the mold seam on the main canopy? If so, it has to be there to make the canopy the proper shape. I order to get a bubble canopy to "tuck in" at the bottom, you have to use a three part mold. A consequence of that is a center line seam on top of the canopy where the right and left halves of the mold come together. Most correct canopies for F-14s, F-15s, and F-16s, for example, have a center mold seam on the canopy, even from the "heavy hitters" like Tamiya and Hasegawa. Even the Academy Hornet has a center mold seam.

A company might be able to minimize the size of the mold line, but you can't eliminate it if you want a correct canopy cross section.

Dave

standstill.

Reply to
Dave Williams

DROOOL...double DROOOOOOL...

One of the reasons for hte mold lines on the canopy is that it may not have what is called "draft" to mold it any other way. If you look at the cross section, you may find it is slightly bowed outward over the rails - most modern jet canopies are this way. It increases to crew's lower lateral visibility. To capture the proper shape in a mold (without vac-forming) the mold has to be made in at least three pieces - an interior plug, and two exterior halves - to allow it to release from the mold...especially to allow release with minimal or no ejector pin marks. And that's where the seam comes from.

Now...when do we get them in the USA?...and where's that TBM?...and that Mig-23 I'd like to see?...

Reply to
Rufus

Can you please tell me what are the weapons like since this was an area of concern with the Academy SU-27?

Thanks.

Reply to
agh

All Missiles and look OK.

Spence

I will post some pics of the sprue's etc on the Binaries group soon.

Reply to
Warty

Great!

Thanks.

Reply to
agh

Posted a couple of images of the Instruction Sheet on alt.binaries.models.scale

Spence

Reply to
Warty

Seen 'em. You now owe me a change of underware...

Reply to
Rufus

LOL

Sending some Sprues.

Spence

Reply to
Warty

Damn. None of my ISPs seem to forward that group..

Reply to
agh

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