Started a new new project last weekend. converting the 1/48 Academy Su-30M2 into an SM prototype. Started with the interior. I bought both the Eduard color and the Dream Model PE sets. The eduard colors are way off- not even close so I carefully masked off the individual control panels and painted the parts with AKAN Suchoi cockpit blue. I'll add more detail later. The front end of the fuselage was replaced with the optional part from the kit. That actually went pretty well.

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Thanks! I'm not using any particular conversion set. Sukhoi basically used an Su-27UB and changed a few things here and there. I wanted to build an SM version with canards, but it's a bit more than I want to tackle for fun. I chose this particular version because of the cool camo they used. I found a really crappy kit of an Su-35 ( a pirated Academy Su-27) to experiment on to see if I can modify the air frame in order to put canards on it. It can be done, but don't know if I want to mess with it.

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That should be a nice model. Unfortunately, it's not the version with thrust vectoring nozzles.

Between you and Halvar, you've got the Russians bracketed! Looking good.

Na sdorowje! 🙂