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Agustin Prellezo
Beautiful bird. Nice model!

Alexander
Nice work! 👍

Alexey Axel
Agustin Prellezo, thank you for rating)

Alexey Axel
Alexander, thank! The work was difficult)

Georges henrion
fantastic

Slavo Hazucha
Cool - I am waiting for this kit in 48-scale - hope it will not literally be "this kit" just made bigger... 😄

This plane really tells the story of Russian thinking (and financial realities...) to the knowing eye better than a thousand words... Shape and aero-kit are rudimentary anchored in the 5-th generation, but "the engine topic" is just (temporarily...!) solved by shoving 2 Flanker turbines up it´s rear end and the pitot tube brings back the charme of the days of Nikita Khruschev... Not to forget that even in lo-vis, Red Stars are still Red..!

Sorry for veering off, it´s a really nice take on the topics, the Sukhoi-favorite splinter camo done really well (surely this time in super-secret radar-absorbing paints..!😄) and the many stencils remind me a bit of the "Pink Pig" racing Porsche scheme... Would really like to see a mechanic after a bottle of vodka navigate that minefield.. 😄 Good stuff, hope to see more from you in the future! 👍

Alexander Grivonev
Hey Slavo,

Thanks, I did screw up the colors though, the dark grey needs to be WAAY darker...even turning up the contrast on the pictures didn't really help 😄

Zvezda released the Su-57 with brand new moulds recently, pretty sure they will put the old kit to rest.

100% spot on what you said about "russian thinking", exactly what I thought about the juxtaposition of the new hull and shape with the old style "heavy metal" Su-27 engine arrangement and look. Times were pretty bad in Russia, especially in the 90ies when the development of russian stealth fighter projects started, REALLY bad, believe me I grew up there. This plane is the russian way of making the best of the possibilities I guess.

The pitot was only on the prototype, they do not use it on the production machines. The "minefield" of stencils is from the Begemot decal sheet, there were none in the kit but are clearly visible on the real thing and are also there to this extent. And I am PRETTY sure no mechanic with an alcohol problem is allowed near that thing 😄

Anyway, I might build this thing again, maybe even in 48, the new digital camo looks terriffic👍

Palo M
Nice summary of how the design process went 🙂 I think they did the front, cockpit and upper half, then decided "this will do" and added whatever engines they found lying around. They never got around designing the bottom (center) of the plane, just welded the pieces together and sprayed a layer of paint.

scalemates
lovely! (ps: don't forget to create a project.... so people can see your model when looking at the kit page)

Alexander Grivonev
Thx, yeah i remember there was something

Nathan Dempsey
Like Slavo I'm awaiting this in 1:48. Yours came out great! Fine work sir 🙂

MS K
cool! I like it. realy realy nice.

Neuling
Impressive result!

Alexander Grivonev
Thx mates, glad you like it

Georges henrion
i love it

Michael Kohl
Nice to see a 917.

George Williams
Good work on those stripes.

bossy122
Thanks. Only wish it hadn't taken two attempts. On the first attempt, I couldnt get the 2 outer stripes to line up correctly at all. This time around, I applied the BIG three pronged forward decal and then quickly did the aft decal and had to adjust the 2 at the same time.

Martin Oostrom
Nice patience tester build 😉
She looks fine to me

Kyle DeHart
I've missed this one so far. Looking really good.

bossy122
Thanks. Almost there...

Steven Van Dyck
At this event I participated to the contest with 4 models. 3 of them won bronze and USS Columbia in ABSD1 won Best of Show. At the lottery I also won a great AMK Fouga Magister and I collected some orders at Domino.

Alexander Grivonev
Congratulations mate! Was curious about that Fouga Magister, looks like some metal frame parts?

Steven Van Dyck
Thanks, Alexander, best check this review to see the contents. hyperscale.com/2017/..k88004reviewjm_1.htm
It has also an optional clearpart fuselage.

Snake Plissken
I just saw one of these in a Andrey Filatov video (more than 9 years ago I think) but I couldn't identify it because everything I looked at had the older full dome turret. Thanks for posting

Mona
👍 🙂