Just ordered 2 boxes! 😂

For sure, Vallejo finish is the nicest one.

wow, what a kit. Not for me, but i do appreciate the fabulous moulding and wondeful extras. I could not do such a kit and give it justice. Cant wait to see your efforts later. I am more a hobbyist, rather than an expert like you and most of your followers. I like to watch your skills and the equipment you use. Awsome work, as usual Chris, good videos.

Not a bad looking kit...

waste of time. can't tell a difference.

I'd rather buy the kit and not a fancy box. Besides, Eduard never builds enough kits for the industry, ( kits safe out of stock before they hit the market) they give away most of their kits to video makers like you , I seriously doubt this is 30 Euros. Too many parts and accessories even if you do get to kits. 1/72 kits are too small for this kind of commemorative kit, plus P51 just like Spitfires murderers come a dozen. Not impressed , plus don't pay for Eduard kits anymore because you have more parts left over after the build which is. Ridiculous I'd might like it if it was given to me than buy it .

I am new to your channel and I love your work sadly I don’t have this Eduard kit

Amazing then RAF P51 where operated by the Canadian’s I think

Das ist ein tolles Modell, aber ich hoffe, dass es bald ein tolles Modell wird! Und außerdem... was ist das!? Zu viele Aufkleber für ein Flugzeug aus dem 2. Weltkrieg, ich bin schockiert!

Bro how many decals are there💀

It looks great! Very good work. My question is: Can i use the Revell pigments as a panel line or to buy special ones?

A good way to lose small parts without even realising. Never ever!

I watched many videos for that and... This is the best and simple technique, but after you aply the decal how much time you let it dry?

Yes…I quite agree! I am a pilot/mechanic for a living. And it is refreshing to hear what you’re mentioning. Heavy weathering has it’s place in certain models/dioramas! But as a full sized aviator, not all aircraft are like that! True, towards the end of any conflict, many aircraft get pretty beat up and depending on where they were located and who was left in maintenance, the aircraft can be quite a mess. But usually, when the mechanics are working on the aircraft, they’re cleaning and servicing as well.

If someone at Tamiya would have designed those molds, they would have been given a short sword and led out back !

I started doing this 30 years ago.. I still have the cut boxart of the model I built when I was a kid! They always bring nice memories…

A timely and frank assessment of the weathering zealotry infesting the plastic model aircraft scene in particular. Shows display endless rows of over the top cartoonish creations with realistic and subtly finished models in the minority. Out of scale, excessive effects, based more on guesswork and wishful thinking predominate. The shadowed panel line cult seeks to emulate the appearance of printed paper cutout models rather than scale but it appears this is how a "good" model is judged these days. More extreme and bizzare treatments spoil many perfectly good models, nothing realistic about them at all. Having been around actual aircraft before restoration, the weathering effect of an aircraft well used or exposed to the elements looks somewhat different. Old photos show this to advantage if available but no need to over exaggerate things. My own preference is to use weathering effects absolutely sparing or not at all, rather the newly built, restored or serviced look as shown in the films here. Way more relevant, accurate and enjoyable for this long time modeller. Maybe have two categories at shows, weathered to death and a factory fresh or resto finish.

You can fix anything. But why? hahaha, this kit is just awful. You did a great job. The figure is very good, you did a fantastic job. Great video.

Subbed because people got triggered over your "over weathering"vlog, never washed sprues ever,i use ISO Spray on the kit and wipe it down before spraying though,to get get rid of the acids,salt and oils off it.

Each to there own,i aint triggered like some of the so called experts on here,if my missus said i had a small dick,so be it,i just care about the fact that it still works. She knows where the door is. At least there would be some peace and quiet 😂

If model manufacturers don't want to include pilots in their kits, then stop including them in the boxart with the model inflight! If the argument is that "no one wants to build them inflight with a pilot" stop advertising this in a misleading way with inflight boxart.... At the end of the day, the hobby has devolved down to only about 1% of us actually building a model aircraft inflight with a seated pilot....

The Airfix/Heller SU27 is notable for being extremely accurate dimensionally and was the best 2-seater in town for a long time. It is a quick and simple build. The more recent Zvezda SU30 is much more complicated (a lot of their newer kits are over-engineered).

If any of you thought Revell is shameless with their models, Heller is the whole new level of the audacity and arrogance. If these kits were cheap, I could understand. If they were representing some niche topics - ok with that. But they are out there on the market competing with 2-3 classes higher tooling sometimes with the same prize tags. I remember they have promised a brand new E-2 Hawkeye back in the beginning of 2023. Even thou it's not my matter of interests, I was keeping an eye of this upcoming model kit just to ensure Heller decided to follow the Airfix and actually treat the customer base as intelligent people. Last month I found a few pictures of testing molds of this brand new Hawkeye. It's a completely new model judging the sprues' layout and far more parts included, but the quality was as much meeh as like this Flanker. Maybe the molds require some refining, but the overall sight was bad, really bad for 2024. Even CZ manufactured new tooling short run kits have sharper details and small parts. I wonder how they have managed to remain on the surface with their crappy and ridiciulously expensive offers this long, while other companies raised bar so high that Heller's kits can't even touch them jumping with both hands in the air. Revell at least has some very unique good kits they like to reissue (BV-222 or recent Ar-240 for example), some old time classics like Tornado or Typhoons in 1/72 still keeping the shape, while Heller has nothing like that. I mean, they have some specific French stuff, but these are ancient kits now with all the problems with fitting and almost non existent details.

Better of buying academy's 1/48 su-27. For 30 € heller's option is waaay too old to be sold at that price point.

Heller and Airfix were under the same ownership from about the mid-80s to the mid-00s when Airfix was bought over by Hornby. So they shared a lot of tooling then, with the kits actually moulded in Heller's French factory then. Heller seemed to take ownership of some of their former joint kits like this, the 1/48 Jaguar, 1/72 Concorde and a few others. For this kit (and Heller/Airfix MiG-29 from the same time) Airfix sold the single seat boxing while Heller did the two seater. For a good few years the Airfix/Heller kit was actually the most accurate 1/72 Su-27 on the market. They were never easy to build though.

maybe thats why takom and border models are including lots of optios for their fighting vehicles (stowage, spare tracks, fuel drums, etc.). About premium kits you´re absolutely right, Im a beginner but I feel the pressure when it comes to build expensive kits because I dont want to mess it. meanwhile a Im not worried about ruining a cheap kit wich I think are good to try new techniques and learn.

What is “over-weathering”? You never define it. It seems that you mean poorly applied weathering. It sounds like you tried to replicate what you saw others do and you weren’t capable of it so now you are advocating not doing it. Building clean aircraft is fine, even though in my opinion they tend to look like toys. Over weathering doesn’t really exist, poor technique and lack of skill is what you are talking about. If you are new to the hobby build on your experience, try something new on each kit and learn. Don’t call poorly applied weathering “over weathering” just call it what it is, poorly done weathering.

i could see a reason to buy heller's model if it's something rare, but with all flankers out there there's no way one would want it

Those that can weather/paint do, those that can’t….well look at the comments section here.

I don’t even own the clamps needed to build this kit. It would have ended up in the bin. Clearly there is a category of modeller who enjoys the building challenge, but it’s not for me.

Sehr gute Lösung mit offenen Kabine. Danke für das Review, hab auch noch ein Heller Bausatz da liegen, müsste ich die Geschichte auch mal anschauen😄

Agree. I do 1/72 planes, mostly ww2 fighters. I noticed negatively that exhaust stains on fighters like i.e. P-51 simply be applied straight backwards instead of following the airflow on top of the wings. Or / and they often end suddenly at the height of the trailing edges of the wings. I recently saw an FW 190 model where the exhaust soot could even be seen on the top of the horizontal stabilizer! 😅

the amount of hate in the comments section is astounding, to say the least… but from reading, it seems that either they don’t really understood what he was saying, or even watched the whole damn thing in the first place… he never said to not do weathering… nor he berated those who do apply it heavily… nor he said not to do it at all… he was just giving suggestions on how to do weathering - based on realistic settings… that’s all… if the modeler has other preferences or aim for their subject, then of course feel free to do so… PS: before anybody here questions my credibility, I’ve been in and around airplanes (combat aircraft, mind you) since I was a kid, and I’ve been flying airplanes for my career for a decade and a half (and counting already), so don’t give me that “have you ever been around an operational aircraft” BS, or else I’m going to chew you down like my plane’s turbine engine does to a bird.

More patience then me. That would have ended up a paint mule or in the bin for me. Even in the 90's there were far better fitting kits around then that.

What was the yellow stuff? Liquid masking?

Some of the bigger KZbinr modellers seemed to have jumped into this comments section to show their true colours. The modelling community on KZbin and elsewhere is so cancerous with everyone being the know it all and trying to the best modeller out there. Fucking no one cares about them in reality and all they do is hide behind a screen and keyboard. Funny really. Keep up the good content!

I think everyone can build their models as they themselfs please. its your own project and your own kits. so if you want to make a chickencoop in a sea king or pigeons nest in a chipmunk have fun.

Just because you are not able to do it, doesn't mean weathering isn't realistic..

Great technique! Thanks for sharing this. I can't wait to try it.

Well, you certainly are not one to back-away from a challenge! Some modelers would have quit building, others would roll up their sleeves and get to work. Only way to get better/gain confidence/figure out work-arounds is to jump in. I salute you. Cheers

Thanks, coffee’s on me, or, for more filler.

Ohh man, this is the dumbest video title I have seen in months. Also the "less is more" is super cringe 🥱. How about you guys do some research instead of looking only at your museum photos folder? Might help a little 😅😅 If you don't like heavy weathered models, just shut up, no one cares about your opinion. Keep doing your thing just don't call others work "over wethered" if it's not you who spend hours doing a proper research because only thing you are showing here is your ignorance.

Howdy, glad I found you. Anyway, how do you keep your airbrush from clogging if you leave that much time (5 to 10 minutes) between coats? Maybe, run some airbrush cleaner through it, but then you lose your paint. I think this is a problem I have been having. With too little time between coats I think my paint is building up too much.

instead of beating the dead horse that is "less is more" have a look at period photos and look at how actual weathering occurs, worn paint on the wing root on a BB spitfire MK.I, chipping and primer exposed on Pacific F4U-1 corsairs, bombs were filthy and worn while being stored outside, exhaust stains on operational aircraft like the early mustangs and Hellcats, general grime from operating out of rough, forward airfields. Instead of complaining about being bad at it and telling others to stop put the energy into understanding the why and how and look at ways to mimic that on your builds if you want, Less is more is such a tired, hackneyed phrase

My advice to modellers. Build how you like. Wanna weather the heck out of something ? Go ahead . Wanna go squeaky clean? Go for it.

Do you think that this is a good example of how things have improved in aircraft kits.

I enjoy getting "lost in details." That includes the parts and the surface finish. An anatomically simplified scale model rendered like a museum piece would deprive my interpretation of the original of its unique characteristics, it's history, it's story.

I think some folk in here are confusing weathering with panel line shading