Ultimate Su-34 „Fullback” paint set

Six tones for a two-seat frontline bomber

The Su-34 grew out of the airframe of the Su-27 fighter, but the crew sits side by side in an armored cockpit with a flat nose, which protects the pilot and the navigator even when attacking targets directly over the battle line. The flat front gave the machine a nickname after a duck's bill and, together with the long tail sting, it makes this type one of the most easily recognizable combat aircraft of the present day. Its coloring went through a marked change: the machines as introduced wore a busy green-blue three-tone scheme, while newer aircraft moved to a more uniform gray finish.

The shades in the package

• Dark Green-Blue, the darkest of the three green-blue tones of the upper surfaces of the first scheme
• Medium Green-Blue, the middle tone of the same camouflage
• Light Green-Blue, the lightest tone of the upper surfaces and at the same time the color of the underside of the airframe on both variants
• Dark Grey, a gray with a violet cast, with which the upper surfaces of the newer aircraft are covered
• Traffic White to the RAL 9016 standard, for the radar-transparent radomes
• Fog Grey to the FS 36293 standard, the lighter form of the same radomes on some of the machines in the three-tone scheme

The six belong to the Blue Line branch, that is, to the acrylic range of the Polish brand. The shades are mixed so that they go together as one whole, which is more useful with a three-tone camouflage than putting tones together from different standards.

Before spraying, stir the bottle thoroughly, adjust the consistency with thinner of the same brand and apply in thin coats. The transitions between the fields of the three-tone camouflage were soft on the real machines, so it pays to work at low pressure and from close up. The model has to be obtained separately, as do the decals and the clear coat for bedding them in.