Zvezda Su-30SM "Flanker-H" build log

DerMattes
Following 👍

Cristian A Аутор
Welcome my friend 👍

Sergej I
following 👍

Cuajete
Me 3!

Łukasz Gliński
Me 4, will follow before this kit makes it into my stash 🙂

Cristian A Аутор
Welcome Sergej. Cuajete and Lukasz!

The kit is very nice and I love the decals, they show exactly the 43 blue in my photo posted here. So far I've found a small fitting issue to the front, but if you start slowly and work your way towards the wings it gets into place.

Oliver
Oh, I take a Seat

Guy Rump
Following as well! 👍

Łukasz Gliński
These colours look great indeed 👍

Cuajete
I agree with Łukasz 👍

★ Starfish ★
Incredible! Also thank you for those reference photos!

Cristian A Аутор
Absolute pleasure to have you here, thank you Mike_AUT

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Great looking engines! Your diorama is also shaping up nicely.
The little patch of green really breaks up all the dark colours from the aircraft and the apron as well. 👀 👍

Cristian A Аутор
Thank you Robin! Glad you like it! I also think the green patch adds a nice contrast to balance out all those darker tones 👍 😊 it took me one week to mask and paint the engines, now they are barely visible between
the vertical stabilizers 😄

Dave Flitton
Watching

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Cristian A Аутор
Thanks a lot @ Villiers !
Welcome @ Dflitton!

I'm hoping to get this project finished soon, even if there are plenty of details / touchups needed to be done before I can assemble everything together.

Clement
Nice work so far.
I hope you won't get silvering under the decals, those walkways look scary on the last picture.

Cristian A Аутор
Thanks Clement.

If silvering appears under the walkways I won't be able to explain it. I primed, sanded down the primer, painted with thin layers and the surface was prepared for the decals. I'm just hoping that the light is strong and that silvering won't show up. Even if it shows, I hope I won't get too bothered by it 🙂

Clement
Fingers crossed! Decals work in mysterious ways 😄

Cristian A Аутор
Back to working on the Su-30SM and making nice progress toward completing the project.

The landing gear is securely in place, fitting well and feeling sturdy. I've also tackled several small details, such as painting the white antenna sensors on the wings and tail, as well as the Khibiny pods in gray at the front and back of each wing.

Next steps:

Install the landing gear covers
Paint the underside of the canards
Apply silver to the missile mounts
Add decals to the missiles
Paint the small rear antennas in eggplant gray before attaching them, along with other final touchups

I'm very satisfied to seeing this build come together and already inspired to start another Su-30SM in the two tone blue and gray camo scheme as the belly of the Naval version presented here!

Mr D
Fantastic looking machine 😃 .
Nice modeling work too... Coming on brilliantly 👍👍

Cuajete
Great job so far 👍

Cristian A Аутор
Thanks Mr. D AND Cuajete.

This kit is an absolute monster for 1/72 scale - 385 pieces, more than the Mi-8 (354 pieces) or Mi-24 (326 pieces) in 1/48 scale from the same producer (Zvezda).

Cristian A Аутор
The project is done, I will upload some better pictures of a final reveal later. Thank you for watching and for your support.

Cuajete
Very nice result. Good job 👍
Congrats!

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Beautiful!

DerMattes
Great result, very well done!

Guy Rump
Great job, congrats! 👍

Mr D
Very Nice and smart indeed, Well done, great model 🎉👍👍

Cristian A Аутор
Thank you Cuajete, Robin, DerMattes, Guy and Mr. D for the support! 👍🫡

I added a final review album as well where the interior of the engines is also shown, thanks for checking it out Zvezda Su-30SM "Flanker-H" Final Reveal | Album by hobbywith.cristian (1:72)

Mr D
Brilliant 👍