Hi Eetu!

Looks good!

I wanted to say "Hey! Where are the red stars?" but this one is for the Mark Sharpe Campaign and not the VVS one.

For the stencils, I often saw very strange things on the kit's instructions. I think that most of the time the people who design the decal guides don't no much more than the modeller himself. Good luck anyway...

Jean-Luc

Looks good, Eetu. A true silver lightning in the sky. Incredible that planes were not camouflaged at that time, but that goes for most of the air forces at that time.

Looking forward to see more

My build moved along today.
Here's the airframe after blackening the area around the engine exhaust and fuselage cannon with lifecolor's tensocrom 'oil'.


Now this is a true pre-thinned paint. The pigment concentration is appropriately low and the solution thin enough for making effects like this. A pressure of 10 psi was just right.

Next I'll be applying some pastels to accent surface detail.

Slow and steady it's coming along.
Yesterday I brushed some ground pastels to the panel lines and other recessed details, then wiped off the excess with moistened q-tips.


Now I really noticed how afwul the wing fit was, and it still isn't the best possible. Well, I guess there's no going back now (at least I'm not going to start slapping on putty and going sanding near that finish). I'll just use and excuse and says that it's Russian.

Today I sprayed on a coat of future to seal the pastel treatment. Tomorrow I'll start removing masks from the fuselage. Then there's just the smaller detail parts to paint, finish and attach.

It's been a while since I last posted anything, so here's some more progress. In fact, I got the thing done, but let's not get ahead of things.

Before starting to remove the canopy masks, I expected trouble. I wasn't mistaken.
The black lining lifted off at several points, probably due to the interior color that was sprayed on first. Fortunately, the most was at straight or only slightly curved parts, so masking and touching up the black lining wasn't such a problem. A chore it was anyway.

I'm not 100% satisfied with the results, but that'll do.

After already having fixed the circular green radar decal (or whatever it is) with future, I noticed I had applied to the wrong place. In this pic, the decal is about to be painted over, with left-over masking material being used to mask around the area. Conveniently, the wheel masks' surroundings had just the right curve for the job. The correct is alread painted green in the picture as well.

And there, it's done:

I'll set up a proper backdrop and take the usual show-off shots later because the landing gear is glued on with styrene cement and is still drying.

Hi Eetu!

Almost done? My little finger tells me this one will be submitted for a feature soon...

Great job both on the model and the build report!

Jean-Luc

A feature? Why not.
I already got a decent set of photos taken and edited to suitable dimensions, but the pictures made me notice the obvious lack of dark wash in the landing gear. I'll see if I can apply such a wash neatle with gear already in place, and achieve a good resul without having to drybrush (which would also be tricky because the parts being in place.
Anyway, I'll be posting proper pics soon.

I just took this kit out of my (small) stash to have it a go - in one of those Finnish versions as well! So this topic is very interesting and helpful for me. Very nice build!! Clean. I hope to achieve the same result, although I doubt it... Looking forward to see those finished product pics!

Today I finally grabbed myself by the neck, applied some dark wash to the landing gear took the photos of the now-finished model.

















-Notice-
These last photos are from the first photo session, the landing gear is without the wash seen on the recent pics. (in case someone notices and would care )








There. Hope you like it.


Edit: I'll tell you what, going through these old build threads to replace Photobucket picture links is quite the chore...

A very fine model of a very cool aircraft! I have been following your thread with great interest and you have done a good job with the Revell kit.



Magnus

that's a beautifully built plane. I have a hasegawa 72nd Mig 21, and I think you just sparked my interest to build it. I'll have to see how it compares to your revell kit! thanks for posting about your build, it was very interesting.

hey, I like your mig very much. I have the same in my stash including the eduard colored pe set. your documentation was mouth watering and i'm looking forward to build mine.

keep it going!!!

Thanks for the compliments.

I looked at the Eduard set too when starting my build. Looked nice.
Just keep in mind whether the version you're building is an early or later one. The turquoise interior color featured on the PE set is inaccurate for ealier production series aircraft, where light blue was used instead.