ATOM SU-35 FLANKER-E Colors Set (also for SU-27 and SU-34)

The shades of the heaviest Sukhoi of today

The Su-35 is the far end of the development of the Su-27 design. It kept the typical lifting fuselage with two widely spaced engine nacelles, but gained a strengthened structure, engines with thrust-vectoring nozzles and a radar with a reach of several hundred kilometers. The single-seat aircraft first flew at the end of the first decade of this century and reached combat units from the middle of the second. It wears a distinctive three-tone gray-blue finish with hard-edged boundaries between the fields, which sits on the spine and the sides and turns into a light area underneath.

The set in practice

The paints are water-thinnable acrylics, mixed so that they can be sprayed straight from the bottle without further adjustment. Besides the main aircraft they also cover the related types, because the Su-27 family and the strike variant with its side-by-side crew used very similar tones.

• Water-thinnable acrylic paints for the airbrush and the brush alike
• The choice of shades matches the gray camouflage finish of modern Sukhois
• Usable on aircraft of the Su-27 line and on the Su-34 strike version as well
• Low odor; the tools are cleaned with water right after work
• A set of paints without a kit, so the model has to be obtained separately

Shake the bottle thoroughly before you draw the paint out, as the pigment content is high and settles to the bottom. Spray in thin coats over a base, or the hard transitions between the fields will lose the sharpness of their edges. Seal the dry coat with gloss varnish; only then come the decals and the wash. A final satin coat suits gray finishes better than a deep matte.