1/48 Hasegawa Sufa

Gallery Article by Gidi Vitkon on Dec 14 2009

 

This is the Hasegawa Sufa kit I was happy as can be - No more resin or surgery to get a Sufa.

The kit has some good points which are –  good fit of parts especially the CFT and the new dorsal fin and nice engraved pane lines and very Very important to me a good nose shape.

 

The bad points are – wrong size or shape or both on most of the new parts, and wrong rear cockpit, nose gear door, nose wheel, also no plugs are provided to seal the intakes above the main intake.

I added a new cockpit, wheel bays and exhaust from Aires, also sealed the small openings above the main intake, made a new and right door for the front landing gear bay, and dropped the flaps, added about a third of a millimeter to the nose wheel thickness. 

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The canopy was tinted with future and eating colors of yellow and green with the front section gating two coats.

One of the great things about the Sufa is that every squadron has a tail art - all designed by Ra’anan Weiss from Isradecal.  The orange tail squadron was my choice.  The decals are the excellent Isradecal set no 65. 

 

 

The kit was painted with Humbrol, Tamiya and extracolor.  Promodeller wash and

Chalks were used for weathering.

The GBU-31and AIM-120 are from Hasegawa. The AIM-9M and litening pod are from Kinetic, all the rest came with the kit.

 

Thanks

Gidi Vitkon

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Photos and text © by Gidi Vitkon