Sukhoi Su-1 1/72 Amodel In-box Review

 

Su-1 was the first in line of Pavel Sukhoi’s fighters. It was built at the Kharkov aircraft factory (Ukraine). Su-1 made its first flight on 15 June 1940. During the tests Su-1 reached 641 km/h speed at 10000m attitude - it was a prototype of new high attitude fighter.

Let’s have a look in the box of the new kit from Amodel. There are 3 sprues of grey plastic and one with clear injected canopy. The quality of molds is quite good for short-run technology, with little flash. But you will have to replace many of little parts like wheels or cockpit detailing.

The box.

Instructions and decal for one option.

Sprues.

Close-up. Note a really good fabric imitation.

Engraved panel lines are, in my opinion, a little bit too thick.

Another close-up. Wheels definitely have to be replaced with aftermarket.

Canopy. It is not bad, but I will make a vacu one.

Yak-9P 1/72 Amodel

Yak-9P was the last, all-metal version of well known soviet fighter. They served in VVS for several years, were exported to Eastern Europe countries and North Korea. I tried to build Yak-9P of Soviet Air Force. The model was build about two years ago.
Best kits of Yak-9’s in 1/72nd now produce Ukrainian company Amodel (Yak-9U and Yak-9P). The kit is typical short-run injection of rather good quality and very good detailing of the surfaces. It fits the drawings well, with only some minor flaws.

I had to make the edges sharper – well known minors of most short-run kits.


Making of the cockpit. Nothing especial, no aftermarket, only some necessary and well visible scratch add-ins.



New canopy was made from scratch. The kit’s canopy is good in shapes, but I needed something more thin and clear.

Assembling the fuselage. I made it almost without the use of putty. It was important because of nice riveting on details. I didn’t want to miss it.



Detailing air intakes


Making some scratch details

Time to some pre-shading and washing

Wheels are from Belarusian Elf company

Finished model