1/48 Sukhoi Su 37 |
Gallery Article by Darius Aibara
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Oct 19 2003
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This is, I believe,
a Chinese kit marketed under a brand name which escapes me (not Trumpeter).
The kit was/is relatively inexpensive (compared to the Academy Flanker kits) and
on opening the box the sprue layouts and parts breakdown bore an uncanny
resemblance to those of the Academy kit. Modified engine exhausts are
provided to represent (not very well) the thrust vectoring attribute of the SU
37 as well as parts for the canard foreplanes, modified fin tops and a small but
nice decal sheet.
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The detail is softer than that of
the Academy Flanker but not too bad. Parts fit is another story, however, with
some serious sanding and filling (and vice versa) required, especially on the
engine trunking. The canard modifications are supposed to be butt-jointed
to the fuselage chine edge, which needs to be "flattened" to accept
the new parts with any degree of strength. The same is required for the
fin top mods and as with the canards some filler is needed to blend in the new
parts.