1:48 Su-27. Landing gears (Kitty Hawk

The real subject

The Su-27 is a heavy Soviet and Russian fighter with two turbofan engines, a pair of vertical tails and a smooth blending of the wing into the fuselage. In 1:48 scale it gives a model over forty-five centimeters long, so it stands on a shelf as a substantial piece. With the size, however, grows the weight that three landing gear legs have to carry, and those are exactly the parts that stay permanently in view on a finished model.

What the set solves

The accessory offers replacement landing gear legs for this model and is built for the Kitty Hawk kit, so the shapes and the attachment match its parts. Compared with the parts from the kit it offers a finer rendering of the small details, that is of the links, the forks and the structure of the legs, which an injection mold delivers only with difficulty. What the package holds exactly, whether further parts belong with the legs and how they are fitted are given in the manufacturer's instructions; follow them during the build as well.

• 1:48 scale, an accessory to the Kitty Hawk kit
• replacement landing gear legs for a Su-27 model
• a finer rendering of detail than the parts from the kit
• an accessory to a kit, not a stand-alone model

Work tips

Dry fit the assembly first, so that you know how the legs will seat in the bays. Cut off surplus material with a sharp blade a short distance from the part and sand the remainder, so that the part seats over its whole surface. Wash and degrease the parts before painting. Use cyanoacrylate glue for the joints, which reliably bonds materials other than polystyrene as well. Paint the bays before you fit the legs, because afterwards a brush will no longer reach into them. Finally stand the model on a flat board and check that it rests on all three legs without leaning.

Terms of supply

The accessory is supplied on its own. The kit, glue and paints are not part of the delivery, unless stated otherwise.