Su-22 N° 1

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July 5, 2025
Sprue 'P' you say? 😄
2
July 5, 2025
There's a significant amount of flash on the seat parts, let's see later if it's everywhere.
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July 5, 2025
Step 1 completed. Another kit with definitely too many parts in the cockpit 😛
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July 11, 2025
They even provided styrene ejection handles, I took the PE ones instead
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July 11, 2025
Step 2 completed (18 parts for each seat!)
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July 11, 2025
So should C & K vary or not? 😄
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July 11, 2025
Steps 3-5 completed
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August 10, 2025
Starting steps 7&8 - main cockpit assembly. There are no PE parts here 😮
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August 20, 2025
Definitely not #65
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August 20, 2025
Step 8 required some pressure
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August 20, 2025
Step 9
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August 20, 2025
Some surplus styrene to be removed from one of the inlets and step 11 - a boring one
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August 20, 2025
Preparation for steps 13&14
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August 20, 2025
Had to fix that dent before attaching the whole exhaust to the fuselage
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August 20, 2025
Ballast added, ready for closing the fuselage, me thinks. Need to check if this tan is valid for the Polish Fitters after their last update.
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August 31, 2025
The front required some serious pressure
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August 31, 2025
Step 17 almost completed - the ring will come soon and the radome at the very end
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August 31, 2025
I decided to reinforce the wings, I don't trust the manufacturer here
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August 31, 2025
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August 31, 2025
Step 27, almost (no pylons)
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December 8, 2025
The last priming
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December 8, 2025
The colours I'm going to use (unless I change my mind again of course)
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December 8, 2025
Some Alclad first
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December 8, 2025
And the first colour is on. I think I need to blend the darker shade a bit
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December 14, 2025
Had a feeling Hataka's tan is too dark, so I bought the Mr.Hobby one 😮
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March 26, 2026
Couple of evening of masking later...
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March 26, 2026
Tan is on
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March 26, 2026
Bright green added
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March 26, 2026
Dark green too
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March 26, 2026
Not exactly Su-22M4 😉 And it turned out the tan on the fuselage needs corrections
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March 26, 2026
Hope to respray the tan parts soon

Comments

57 5 July 2025, 20:13

Patryk S.
Following!

1 7 July 2025, 15:50

Robert Podkoński
Taking a first-row seat on this talent show, of course!

1 7 July 2025, 16:16

Juergen Klinglhuber
will watch too

1 9 July 2025, 20:21

Łukasz Gliński Author
Welcome mates! I managed to reach step 7 today, need to take pics after 6&7 still.
The cockpit is a kit of itself, pure madness.
If I ever build another one I might consider reverting to Bilek/KP set 😄

1 11 July 2025, 19:15

Dave Flitton
Nice start!

1 12 July 2025, 03:54

Nicolas
Following.

1 12 July 2025, 05:31

J35J
Watching👀

1 12 July 2025, 07:35

DerMattes
Following 👍

1 12 July 2025, 08:25

Guy Rump
Following. 👍

1 11 August 2025, 06:41

Łukasz Gliński Author
Glad to see you joining. I'm approaching the main fuselage assembly, added some pics of the subassemblies.

1 20 August 2025, 19:26

S M
Following!

1 20 August 2025, 19:34

Moreno Baruffini
Sorry for the delay! Following as well! (I have a Su-22 partially started waiting for some kind of inspiration 🙂 )

1 28 August 2025, 06:14

Łukasz Gliński Author
You're v.welcome S M & Moreno!
I managed to squeeze the fuselage together and to add the wings and stabs today.

1 31 August 2025, 19:05

S M
Nice progress 👍 Does the wing mechanism work fine?

1 31 August 2025, 21:06

Łukasz Gliński Author
Yes and no - I managed to glue the left wing forever 🙁

1 28 October 2025, 20:29

Ekki
Missed it.

1 28 October 2025, 21:26

Piotr Sarniński-Górecki
Following 🙂

1 28 October 2025, 21:27

Shar Dipree
Following.

1 28 October 2025, 21:33

Łukasz Gliński Author
Welcome mates.
I'm still thinking which example to depict - just don't tell me to go for the black one, this one is out of scope 😛

28 October 2025, 21:44

Adam Gudynowski
Nice cockpit. Following.

1 29 October 2025, 14:17

Cuajete
Well done so far 👍

1 29 October 2025, 19:47

Clement
Great work.
That cockpit madness paid off in the end, it looks real busy in there.

1 9 December 2025, 06:57

Łukasz Gliński Author
Thx mates - you may believe it or not, but the cockpit is OOB

2 9 December 2025, 07:43

Martin Grafeneder
Good work, I'll keep following along.

1 9 December 2025, 08:32

Guido
Having the single seat version, time to follow.
Thanks for documenting the different building steps! 😉

1 9 December 2025, 09:07

Alec K
Taking a belated seat, very nice progress on this, despite what looks like another challenging kit 👍

1 9 December 2025, 13:12

Łukasz Gliński Author
Actually it is complex, but really well engineered.
The biggest issues I faced so far were fuselage joints (as always in my case) and the fitting of the left fin side which is a separate part.
Not far from Tamigawa to be honest 👍
PS. The instruction is also well done, in couple of points it made me stand corrected when it comes to my Fitters' knowledge 😄

2 9 December 2025, 14:30

Cuajete
Good progress, Łukasz! 👍

1 9 December 2025, 20:10

Thomas Kolb
Great to see this model kit being built! I have it too in my stash but I am always intimidated by it. I will gladly keep track of how you are getting along!

1 12 January, 16:36

Łukasz Gliński Author
Hej! Long time no see! 👍
Nothing to be afraid of tbh, it's actually well engineered and detailed

1 12 January, 17:03

Sergej I
In for the second half! 👍

1 12 January, 17:35

Guido
Looking forward to the top colours coming on. 😉

1 13 January, 12:45

Bernd Grün
Very nice start, Lukasz! 👌 Following. 👀

1 14 January, 14:21

Franco Echenique
Great work Lukasz! how it was the fit on this kit?

1 14 January, 14:22

Łukasz Gliński Author
It's very good, close to Japanese level

2 14 January, 15:20

Thomas Kolb
I am super curious about that blotchy camo pattern! On the real thing it looks like someone just using whatever paints they had in the cupboard to do fill-ins and repairs.

1 15 January, 14:53

Łukasz Gliński Author
Well, first I need to mask the blue part, which is taking days

1 16 January, 15:36

Alec K
Looks really good 👍

1 26 March, 21:05

Juergen Klinglhuber
efforts pay off - looking good 👍

1 28 March, 06:49

Thomas Kolb
That's starting to look really nice! It's certainly one big bad Fitter!

1 28 March, 20:39

Cuajete
I agree with mates. Very nice color scheme 👍

1 29 March, 18:54