John Griesbacker takes a look at Trumpeters 1/72nd Su-24MR, which is a new tooling release.

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Thanks!

A model right out of the headlines! That molding does look fine. The cockpit detail, too. It is annoying that they left off the necessary stores to build a proper Fencer. Perhaps they are releasing a Soviet stores set? Doesn't Hasegawa have one? Good review, John.

Thanks very much. Like I mentioned it's got great molding but what were they thinking?

Well they are bringing the M version out, so they are making the most of the moulds by trying to get as many versions out as possible.
Why they couldn't have moulded the forward fuselage as a extra part or added the camera pods as an extra sprue, only Trumpeter know.
Andy

The forward fuselage is correct for an -MR, but there are no cameras for the bottom of the fuselage or under the port intake and no electronics pod. One extra sprue could have had those three items instead of a slew of weapons not used on the recon version packed in the box. I hope their -M version has the correct nose.

I think that the forward fuselage, especially the nose cone part is still wrong as on the 1/48 prototype. I hope that ModelSvit (or someone else) will release a better kit or Trumpeter will fix the issue on the 24M variant. Still no build examples of this one, it could look better when assembled. This aircraft should be extremely popular at this moment.

I'm working on a build of the sample kit - I hope to have it done in the next couple of weeks.