Second
in the set of Russian trainers is the Sukhoi Su-28. This is a trainer version
of the Su-25 Frogfoot, one of those ground-pounding aircraft that seems to be
composed of more ordnance than airframe.
The
kit was produced by MSV, a short-lived (Ukrainian?) company that produced only
two models that I know of. I suspect that the recent kit released by Art Model
of the Su-28 is likely from the same molds, but not having seen it in person I
can’t confirm that. The molding is somewhat basic, with thick plastic pieces on
the order of the proverbial Russian tractor, but they seem to be fitting
together well enough. There is some putty involved, but not on the scale of the
Yak-130 so far.
In
fact, the main disaster of this build had nothing to do with the kit. I was in
the process of getting the wings attached to the fuselage and had a bottle of
Tenax open on the bench. My last bottle of the discontinued Tenax, to be exact.
So you can see where this is going. The ham fist knocked the bottle over, Tenax
pooled around the bottom of the Su-28 sitting on the workbench, and dialog not
heard since the last Teamster convention was unleashed upon the land. I pulled
the model from the liquid and basically didn’t touch it for an hour. Thankfully
the Tenax just air dried and there was no structural damage to the model. The
surface is very shiny now, due to the chemical reaction, but it seems to have
hardened up without distortion. I’ll be buffing it up to get any surface
anomalies taken care of. Thankfully nothing else was hit by the Tenax. I
managed to retain half a bottle, but will need to be deciding on my replacement
for the adhesive sooner than I expected. I’m no fan of cyanoacrylate, so maybe
MEK or one of the other proprietary types. I use Testors liquid (in the black
square bottle with the applicator) for many uses, but like the very thin and
fast Tenax for welding things like the wing to fuselage joint.
And
here is a photo of the Su-28’s current state. Next up is the canopy and
possibly some wheel well painting.
Next:
the MiG-AT and its exasperating intakes.
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