Hi wildog...and those who can help me with this,

What should be the proper color of the cockpit tub and the sheet cushions? Do you have a link to a pic on how its seatbelts are placed? Do you have a link which shows the cockpit of the aircraft, particularly the ejection seat? What I got from goggle is mostly the frontal detail.

The reason is that I'll be building Academy's 1/48th scale SU 27 as my entry for the Seeing Red campaign. I'm done with the sub-assemblies but I'm stuck on the cockpit.

By the way, your SU 27 is superb. Your handbrushing skills are very good;in fact, I thought the camouflage pattern of your aircraft was airbrushed!

Sir Wilddog, I think I can help you on how to "soften" up your camouflage pattern. I call the technique is called "dry filtering" and it uses oils.

Mix oil paints the color of your Flanker, and that is gray. It should be a bit lighter than the gray in your aircraft. With a chissel brush, drybrush the oil paint on the panels of your aircraft that are covered by the gray color. Mix another batch of very dark gray (almost black) and drybrush the panels that are touched by the black color. Finally, mix a medium gray and VERY LIGHTLY drybrush the demarkation lines of the gray and black.

This will soften the demarcations of the camo pattern as if it were airbrushed. I used this technique on my armor models.

HTH. And thank you in advance for the answers provided on my questions above.

Angela