Flanker-enstein

[Lrrr]

Sexy. And HUGE! 

Yeah, I'm actually worried about where it's going to live when it's done.   

[NARSES2]

When things are that big they live where they want 

[Lrrr]

Winter Camo

[Lrrr]

Dmitri likes the upgrades to his Flanker

[Old Wombat]

Brilliant camo!

[zenrat]

Very good.

[NARSES2]

Interesting 

[Lrrr]

Thanks folks!

Was drying on the fan and thought would make an 'action shot' with sun in the background.  Because that's likely what you'd see in a dogfight. 

Also, wanted to get a few more shots of complete sans armament.  Thought it was interesting the camera picking up the yellow/red light of the sun gives the impression of a desert camo.  Might have worked rather well if had gone that route as well. 

[Lrrr]

Armament.  Similar to typical Flanker load-out, but more concentric on the inner fuselage.  Tried a few things with the wings but kinda detracted from the smoothness of the lines a bit.  Thought this worked better. 

[NARSES2]

I still struggle sometimes to get my head around just how many missiles some of these 4th/5th generation types can carry.

[Lrrr]

I still struggle sometimes to get my head around just how many missiles some of these 4th/5th generation types can carry.

I only this week saw a picture of a Su-35 with provisions for an additional 2 wing hardpoints for 8x wing AAMs.  If the 4 fuselage points remained that would be 4x R-27, 4x R-77 and 4x R-73. 

Based on that - since this WHIF would be the Gen 4+ instead of the Su-35,  I was looking into getting some R-77s to add to the wingroots and bump a pair of R-73s out by ~7mm.   Just didn't want to buy a 'Soviet missile kit' for 2x R-77s. 

[zenrat]

This is a great build.  Looks amazing.

I do have one tiny little suggestion though.  The name.  "Flanker-enstein" strikes me as being a bit clumsy.  Have you considered calling her  "Flankenstein"?

[NARSES2]

I only this week saw a picture of a Su-35 with provisions for an additional 2 wing hardpoints for 8x wing AAMs.  If the 4 fuselage points remained that would be 4x R-27, 4x R-77 and 4x R-73. 

50 years ago they'd carry 2 missiles in total and they probably weren't that effective 

[Dizzyfugu]

...or just throw some rocks. 

[PR19_Kit]

50 years ago they'd carry 2 missiles in total and they probably weren't that effective 

50 years ago the USAF had just retired the F-89 Scorpion, almost BECAUSE its missiles weren't that effective.............