The end of December is pretty hectic for most of us and I am not excluded. Christmas Eve, shopping, visiting relatives,… leaves me little to no time for modelling. Not to mention I’ve also been working most of the days. Yet I managed to retreat to my man cave for an hour and do some work on Flanker today. As you may know, when Flankers are parked, their manuevering surfaces drop. Trumpeter doesn’t provide any repositional parts for this (neither did any company doing Flanker model so far), so in order to accurately depict this feature, a little plastic surgery is needed. As you can see, flaperons and slats were cut out and tailerons will receive actuator cover enlargment soon enough. With basic work done it was time to close the fuselage and attach the nose, while I dryfitted tail just for the photoshoot purpose. They will be attached after I’m done painting the engines areas with Alclad metallic paints. Next step I am not so fond of – puttying and sanding. Luckily, there’s not much needed 😀
Till the next time!
VVS modelling 
Looking very good. I would not be brave enough to cut it up like that. When I built a MiG-25BM recently, I was worried about the simple task of cutting the nose off and simply sticking a resin one in it’s place.
Thank you, Ryan! It’s more a job of patience than bravery, really. Good tools help as well. I’ve used CMK fine razor saws to cut lines perpendicular to the wing’s leading/trailing edge and RaduB’s Scribe-R and Tamiya’s scriber for cutting parallel lines.
It’s a risky move anytime you perform surgery on a kit. The benefits of the realism are wonderful. Looking good.
thanks. it usually is not as risky as it seems. all it takes is a good tool and steady hands 🙂
That is one thing I don’t have is steady hands. I have said to others, you needs eyes like an eagle and the steady hand of a surgeon. I have neither.
for cutting and rescribing you can use dymo-tape as a flexible rule which will compensate for unsteady hands 😉