SU-27 UB “Flanker C” Heavy Fighter
When, for the first time in the 1980’s, I saw photos of the SU-27 I fell in love with those lines. For several reasons, mainly never having found ‘the’ kit, I ended up never building any. Time passed and in 2020 the GWH model (L4827) appeared, in my favourite version, the SU-27 UB at 1:48 scale. Then, I knew the moment had come. The box, by itself, is impressive, of top quality and with superb box-art. When you open it, the heart beats faster: a huge amount of plastic sprues neatly packaged and with incredible detail, metal pitot, photoetched options, two versions of canopy (one is a full transparent plastic and the other is a plastic frame with transparent canopy parts with vertical casting to reproduce that Omega shape), a case with the missiles, moulded into a whole piece and, my god, hundreds of the finest decals… I realized that I had one of the best kits I had ever seen. Laborious, but with a potentially very rewarding result. As usual, I started by carefully studying the instruc...
