Sukhoi Su-7 VEB Plastikart View: Slideshow Mosaic List 1 January 16, 2017
Lovely vintage box art
2 January 16, 2017
Fuselage halves
3 January 16, 2017
Wings and canopy
4 January 16, 2017
Some other silver and black plastic parts
5 January 16, 2017
Black plastic sprue
6 7 January 16, 2017
Instructions ,,, quite comprehensive 😉
8 January 16, 2017
Instructions , as you can see ... very comprehensive ... 😉
9 January 16, 2017
Decals. Note decals for nose radome and tail dielectric panel in red and blue. Also note gun anti-blast panels in red.
10 January 16, 2017
Ailerons with quite obvious sink marks. Will be dealed the old way ... with paint.
11 January 16, 2017
Assembling the wings
12 November 23, 2017
Cockpit and nose weights
13 November 23, 2017
Intrument panel , pure retro-style .... black and silver ....
14 15 November 23, 2017
Fuselage being glued together
16 November 23, 2017
Starboard wing glued to fuselage in the old way, with sellotape.
17 November 23, 2017
Now ,,, both wings are glued.
18 November 24, 2017
Frist coat of old trusty Humbrol Silver # 11 by brush
19 November 24, 2017
Some panels were also brush painted this time with Tamiya XF-16 enamel
20 December 6, 2017
Some progress ... Undercarriage and weapons glued in place
21 December 6, 2017
Underside .... fuselage halves joint is quite noticeable .. arrggg 🙁
22 December 6, 2017
Exhaust ring also brush painted. As well as nose radome and dielectric tail panel in dark green
23 December 6, 2017
Nose ring in chrome silver.
24 December 6, 2017
Overall view ... nose wheel still to be glued
25 December 6, 2017
Front wheel and stabilators being glued in place
26 December 7, 2017
Overall wiew with all wheels in place ,,,, over my latest buy .... yesterday in a flea market
27 28 December 7, 2017
Undercarriage doors and drop tanks that deserve more "attention"
29 December 7, 2017
The sort of information I got in the late seventies ,,, the old , and then trusty , Blandford books
30 December 7, 2017
Front page of Munson book. Truly vintage ....
31 December 7, 2017
Overall view above my latest adquisition
32 December 7, 2017
Some more work on the drop tanks ,,, let's see how they look tomorrow, when Humbrol pain is dry ...
33 December 8, 2017
Drop tanks in place
34 December 8, 2017
Before decalling, I tested one spare decal , and results seem to be good .... so let's go with all the decals
35 December 8, 2017
Decalling completed the old way (no varnish, no setting solutions).... let's see how it turns when dry
36 December 10, 2017
Good news for our Polish mates .. I've removed the "offending" blue bort numbers with sellotape
37 December 10, 2017
"Look ma , no numbers" .... 😉 this time the old style (no varnish) helped ... 😉
38 December 10, 2017
And , finaly , red bort numbers from the HDL decal sheet I had as back-up
39 December 24, 2017
Finished just in time for xmas
40 December 24, 2017
Merry Christmas to all of you .... mates
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And some hi-res pictures from the Aviation Museum in Riga.
47 December 6, 2017
Su-7 in Riga
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Su-7 in Riga
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Su-7 in Riga
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Su-7 in Riga
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Su-7 in Riga
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Su-7 in Riga
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Su-7 in Riga
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Su-7 in Riga
Comments 22 November 2024, 18:34 -
Album info It's a very toy-like model. Main parts are moulded in silver plastic and detail parts in
gloss black plastic. Ailerons, rudder and wheels are movable. Stand is also included for an in-flight pose.
My aim is to do some kind of retro-modelling. That means I'll try to build as much as I can the very old way ,,, as I should have done in the late seventies. "Classic" Humbrol #11 silver overall brush painted , no putty , nail files, no clear varnish, and kit's decals. For the sake of economy (I didn't want to buy a lot of Humbrol tins), airframe details were painted with Tamiya enamels , and details were painted with acrylics (Gunze , Tamiya, and Vallejo).
Plastic is very hard and some parts don't fit as well as modern kits do, but I kind of like these basic VEB kits.
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Sukhoi Su-7 Fitter-A Wojska Lotnicze (Polish Air Force 1962-1990) 22 NMF
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