Polish vintage Su-7

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April 8, 2021
The driver's office is very spacious in this kit and the driver himself is way undersized IMHO.
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I had to thin down the ridiculous inlet lip.
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Lovely rudder features (only this side luckily)
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April 8, 2021
The canopy is surprisingly clear 40 something years after production 🙂
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April 9, 2021
Another bunch of lovely sinkmarks. But I have to admit they are designed to show up on the undersides.
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April 9, 2021
Plasticart kits make very rewarding quickbuilds 😉
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April 13, 2021
First priming
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April 13, 2021
One of the blobs simulating the cannons was damaged, so I had to replace it.
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April 13, 2021
Old Revell Contacta needle turned out to be quite helpful.
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April 13, 2021
Cannons replaced.
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Another unique feature: on the port side there are sinkmarks caused by the cockipt floor.
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April 17, 2021
Almost the Black Boar 😉
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April 17, 2021
Back in silver, and with decals.
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44 8 April 2021, 19:21

Patryk S.
Following! Is there a rescribe in the plans or are you leaving the panel lines as they are?

8 April 2021, 20:07

Łukasz Gliński
Going to retain as much as I can. Don't want to correct this classic kit😉

8 April 2021, 20:08

Ben M
Watching! Love old kits and su-7's

8 April 2021, 23:10

Alec K
This is true vintage stuff. Watching 👍

9 April 2021, 01:49

Pierre Pierre
following ! look promising

9 April 2021, 02:21

Maciej Bellos
Watching!

9 April 2021, 05:27

Łukasz Gliński
Welcome everyone. This is really nice quickbuild if you're strong enough to stick to OOB. The styrene is quite unusual, as it needs more time than todays kits to cure once treated with SP penetrating glue.

9 April 2021, 20:05

Cuajete
I want to be in the gap!

9 April 2021, 20:11

Łukasz Gliński
Bienvenido! 🙂 Had to replace the cannon blobs as one of them was broken. And couldn't refrain myself from using a metal pin as a pitot.
No more detailing, I promise 😄

13 April 2021, 19:27

Robert Podkoński
I had this model on my bookshelf when I was a kid (built by my father, of course) - I was so excited that the canopy is openable🙂 Keep my fingers crossed for you.

13 April 2021, 19:32

Łukasz Gliński
I never reached this stage, until getting the kit last year 😄 Had to wait a little bit longer 😄
Thanks

13 April 2021, 19:42

Pierre Pierre
super nice, keep sharing pics !

14 April 2021, 13:08

Mirko Römer
Great idea! ?

14 April 2021, 20:28

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks and welcome.
Todays update - finished spraying, most of the details and panels are brush painted (in steel, RLM76 and FS14108).
Added the decals too, coming from SBLiM-2 set (MiG-15UTI).
Went for #06, as the #22 depicted on the boxart was the BKL version actually. I know the kit's accuracy is purely accidential, but I tried to keep the painting as realistic as I could.

17 April 2021, 20:35

Alec K
It's turning out excellent Lukasz. What a blast from the past 👍

18 April 2021, 11:24

Pierre Pierre
very nice. what kind of paint did you use ?

18 April 2021, 12:24

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks, I'm enjoying it too 🙂 The paints are listed on the project page, but the main colour is the SM Fine Silver by Gunze.
SM201 Super Metallic - Super Fine Silver 2, Mr. Color Metallic, Acrylic Lacquer, 10ml

18 April 2021, 12:31

Łukasz Gliński
Finished. Enjoy the sunny evening pics 🙂

19 April 2021, 17:11

Mirko Römer
Totally agree with Roland!

19 April 2021, 18:23

Sebastian Meyner
Nicely done mate 👍 I do remember this kit from my childhood days 🙂

19 April 2021, 18:32

Erik De Smet
I guess that is the old VEB Plastikart that got a new life here ? It brings back memories of a trip to Berlin in 1978 , where I bought this one (in East-Berlin)

19 April 2021, 18:37

Cuajete
A second oportunity for an old kit. Well done, Łukasz! 👍

19 April 2021, 19:46

Łukasz Gliński
Many thanks everyone, it was very enjoyable quickbuild and I really wonder why I haven't built it earlier 😉 Glad to see I'm not the only admired of DDR kits.

19 April 2021, 19:50

Cuajete
DDR??

19 April 2021, 19:54

Ben M
DDR is the Deutsche Demokratische Republik - East Germany

19 April 2021, 19:59

Maciej Bellos
Cuajete, Deutsche Demokratische Republik or more commonly known as East Germany.

19 April 2021, 20:01

Łukasz Gliński
"Today kids will never know" 😉
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany

19 April 2021, 20:06

Cuajete
Oh sorry... I was thinking of some kind of acronym in English related to the old kits. Of course I know what East Germany was 😄 👍

19 April 2021, 20:14

Maciej Bellos
Some older kids will say Double Data Rate RAM, but this is not the place for that 😉