1/72 Hobby Boss Su-47 Berkut - side project

mchoo2005 · March 01, 2011, 03:22:41 AM

OK... here's where it's at.... Installed canopy, masked canopy, installed vert stabs, elevators, and sprayed a thin layer of base coat on top and bottom fuselage.

Based on reference photos that I got of a Flanker in the camo I want to use, the grey base coat for top and bottom fuselage has different shade. The top one looks a bit like FS35237, while the bottom one looks like Light Gull Gray.

So, what I've done is I've sprayed the bottom fuselage with Light Gull Gray (Gunze Aqueous Hobby H51). For the top fuselage, rather than using FS35237, I mixed up my own shade of grey using FS36231 (Gunze Aqueous Hobby H317) and Tamiya Flat White.

It's barely visible on the pics, but there are a couple of areas that I'd need to sand using 1200 grit sandpaper and re-spray.

Thanks for looking!

mchoo2005 · March 16, 2011, 04:29:57 AM

Apologies for the lack of update. I've been chipping away at this, but never bothered to take pics till now.

Have had some dramas with overspraying, so spent quite a lot of time touching up the paint here, there and everywhere. I should've left the vert stabs off before painting.

The black looking patterns are actually very dark grayish blue, which is Gunze's H322 (Phthalocyanine Blue) mixed with LifeColor Schwartz Grau (or Panzergrau?) at 50:50.

Thanks for looking!

saintkatanalegacy · March 16, 2011, 06:20:57 AM

you're gonna put red markings this time right?

looking forward to this

sotoolslinger · March 16, 2011, 07:54:19 AM

LOVE

mchoo2005 · March 16, 2011, 02:06:47 PM

Quote from: saintkatanalegacy on March 16, 2011, 06:20:57 AM
you're gonna put red markings this time right?

looking forward to this

Yes.... yes... I'm gonna use Russian markings for this one...

Thiel · March 16, 2011, 02:22:16 PM

A little late now I know, but doing it in US colours as the Russian equivalent of the Aggressors would be amusing.

mchoo2005 · March 16, 2011, 02:27:50 PM

Quote from: Thiel on March 16, 2011, 02:22:16 PM
A little late now I know, but doing it in US colours as the Russian equivalent of the Aggressors would be amusing.

Hahaha... yes, I know. I was thinking about that before, but decided against it, 'cuz I'm a bit sick of the US colour scheme, since it's mostly gray.

saintkatanalegacy · March 16, 2011, 08:03:22 PM

yeah... just imagine how a flanker would look like in gray...

* saintkatanalegacy looks at Indian flankers

oops, no need to imagine them

but if it's naval tomcats style...

mchoo2005 · March 26, 2011, 01:29:06 AM

Finally finished this little project, after many many dramas!

Here are the pics of the completed product. Not exactly the best work I've done thus far, but not the worst either. I kinda lost quite a bit of my motivation and patience sort of mid-way through...

By the way, the pilot looks very comical! He looks like a freakin' 15-year old kid dressed up in flight suit! Whoever did the mold for the pilot must've been a bit

Ed S · March 26, 2011, 10:49:26 AM

Well done. That's a beauty for sure.

Ed

dragon · March 26, 2011, 12:33:51 PM

So I see that Hobbyboss purchased the molds from Zvesda, interesting.
It does look very good in that camo scheme.
Now that I know the Berkut is available again, I wonder what it would look like in Cuban Revolutionary Air Force camouflage and markings...

NARSES2 · March 27, 2011, 02:40:34 AM

Beauty

su27rules · March 27, 2011, 03:20:15 AM

Beauty ,great camo !!

ChernayaAkula · March 27, 2011, 05:27:14 AM

Drop-dead gorgeous!

bearmatt · April 07, 2011, 12:08:39 AM

Now it's for sure.... T-50 never went into production....
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