![]() Now that was a sight to see what it could do in the air.21 (10 test and 10 serial )Ī multirole fighter capable of aerial combat as well as ground and maritime strike, the Su-57 incorporates stealth, supermaneuverability, supercruise, integrated avionics, and large internal payload capacity. Hope this project (the real T-50 or whatever you call it) will not end up as that fascinating Berkut with forward swept wings. Then the Zvezda kit will be just an interesting evolutional step in model making history. I do have the ill-fated Zvezda kit in 72 but after first comparisons with photos decided to put it away deep, deep in the stash and wait for a day when more will be know and hopefully a much better and authentic kit comes out from which ever manufacturer. I did see the aircraft few years ago but it was at a considerable distance and also in the air so little knowledge could be gained from it which could help in a build project. Some of the questions you ask about particular parts of the airframe are unanswerable for me for luck of information and detailed views. But as far as I can see no such exists for obvious reasons. It is true that there are many photos of this new fighter around but they are all different in one way or another.Ī good overall walk around of one particular aircraft within a very constricted time frame could be the basis for a build. The real problem here is that the whole T-50 or Su-57 project is so much at the very start of evolution, it is in its infancy with everything changing all the time from air frame to airframe and even within one particular aircraft. This is an extremely brave project, one that I would never attempt! Your perseverance is commendable! Some work remains to reach the final finish but I'm rather happy with this, now I have to replicate this on the other intake. At this stage it is necessary to determine the appropriate size of the opening, I've drawn several paper template, 10, 9, 8 m/m to see which size could fit, I remind you that I'm working onlly by visual observation with all the uncertainty this means, I thought the 8m/m was the best compromise.Īfter a lot of filing, a thin plasic background has been set in place but still not glued Sorry for the blurred photos, I was all in the process of the job making photos after each step, I saw the mess too late to make better pictures as the work had already reached another step, in the contrary of many today people showing perfect models on immaculate background, I'm unable to use any kind of photoshopping device with the result you can appreciate. I was not satisfied by what Ive obtained with my milling machine so I deliberatly opened the whole thing, this was easily done but the surprise came from the thickness of the resin, nearly 2 m/m and the top 3m/m If some one of you has an idea, I will adopt it.Thank you for thinking about this point. Other problem much more serious is my questionning about the shape of the main gear doors as they have been modified on the later prototypes. The solution is to buy another set to lengthen the parts. Then the fitting inside the fuselage shows it is feasable but the F-35 bay shows it is 10 m/m shorter, something are obviously to be done to have a correct fitting. It has to be modified of course to fit the bay I can now test the fitting of the weapon well borrowed from an F-35 BLACK DOG weapon bay set. Sorry for the blue shade of the photos, I didn't notice the low lighting. I didnt open the forward and rear of the housing to manage some place for carving the indentation of the stealth denting according to fit the bort number choosen at this stage I can't stil say which one will be built, the opening of the forward bay will be done at a later stage. Opening the weapons bay is straight forward, using the same technic AWFULLY NOISY.To the strongest disapproval of Tomy my technical adviser The process is the same, long, fastidious and. I've chosen to open only the auxilary doors as they are the only ones openned when the gea is down in ost of the time Most of the appertures are to be done on the underside.Begining with the nose wheel. The pointless file has not been broken in this process For the filling, the advantage of the hard material is that it prevent the last desastrous file stroke On the upper fuselage another apperture is to open for the square louvres behing the cockpit sill same technic but its small size means that you have to pay attention when drilling the holes. Then you have to smooth and file the side of the openning The technic is well known of the modellers, first drilling a serie of holes along the part you want to open A kind of fiber glass which is far harder than the traditionnal plastic but much stronger. The difficulty come from the material used for the one piece fuselage. ![]() Before begining the first step of the building all the aperture have to be opened. ![]()
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