1/72 Dragon Su-24C Fencer

Gallery Article by Aaron on July 5 2012

 

 

This is the 1/72nd Su-24C Fencer from Dragon finished in the livery of a mid 90's machine of the Russian Air Force...

 

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It was finished with the aid of a resin cockpit from Pavla (amazingly detailed for braille scale!) and a hypodermic pitot tube courtesy of me :-)

In order to capture the weathering typical of modern Russian military aircraft, I used a combination of pre & post shading and a very light post-wash with Vallejo pigments (it's easy to go overboard with weathering in 1/72nd!).

Oddly enough, this is probably the longest build that I have ever done... Approximately 9 years go-to-whoa! Not because of any real problem with the build, I basically put the kit aside one day and forgot about it for the best part of a decade :-D

I actually sold this one on an internet auction site to an American soldier based in Iraq... I hope it got there in one piece, as I was quite fond of it!

Hope you like my Fencer :-)

Happy modelling from Australia!

Aaron

      

Photos and text © by Aaron