Zvezda Su-24M?

Yuri,

The word on the street is that it's the Dragon/Italeri kit re-boxed.

Ken

What decal options are there in this one as well as the Italeri kit? Looking for Iraqi, Iranian, and Syrian Fencers.

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Uhm, so better the Strim kit. The strange thing about Zvezda kits is the great difference from one kit to another. Some of them are really good, others are early Airfix-like...

The boxart shows a Soviet/Russian plane with markings for a training unit if I'm not wrong (same as one of the options also of the Strim kit).

The Italeri/Dragon had only red stars and a couple of numbers.

For the markings you are looking for there are a couple of aftermarket decal sheets available from Hi-Decal and Cutting Edge. Hannants or Squadron websites should have a photo of the decal sheets.

My 0.02

It depends on where they got the mold. To my knowledge, Zvezda had no molds of their own, they re-issue other companies kits most especially Italaerie armor. hth

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

Dunno. For what I know they reissued a number of Italeri kits (and sometimes Italeri reboxed Zvezda kits), but the others should have been their mold (I think). For example both the Ka-27 and Mi-8 are good (the Mi-8 has maybe a little slim cockpit), while the MiG-29 is really bad (definitely not the Italeri mold) and the Su-25, MiG-23/27 and MiG-31 are so-so (sometimes with raised and sometimes with engraved panel lines). I don't know of anyone else using the same molds, so they should be theirs... who knows.

I haven't seen any of the above so apparently they are molding some of their own products. Cheers,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)