And that's one very well deserved break indeed!
Those tiger stripes looks fantastic! As does the rest of the model as well.
Looking forward to seeing it finished.

What do You know! A Fagot in Tigermeet camo! Never knew they were made in such colourfull camouflages. Its cool.

Edit: I know the UTI is actualy a NATO code "Midget" but Fagot sounds better

In fact I have based on some other "Tiger" MiG-15UTI I have found on www.britmodeller.com, but that one had some mistakes like:
- wrong markings (should be red in top, left corner)
- 4 digit serial number instead of 3 digits that were used on polish SBLim-2s.

I hope that small what-if will be acceptable in this campaign

I am building Eduards 1/48th MiG-21MF.
I will post a pic once I have finished spraying the camo.
Andy

Hi all,
At last, I thought the MiG campaign has nearly turned out to become a MiG-15 one.

Marek, your Tiger bird is really striking! I‘ll do a Starfighter in a similar scheme soon.

There are two „Mischievous MiGs“ that I‘m going to focus on, wishing to finish at least one:
Surprise, surprise, a MiG-15 UTI and a more recent MiG-29 - in the double-seater version as well.




Cheers
Matt

Matt, I like your set of decals do they make any for the single seat version?

Bob

Thanks for keeping the thread going everybody. Just got back in from vacation last night. Hoping to get back to the bench really soon. Still trying to recover from lots of margarita's and sun. "Q"

QUESTION

1. Mig-17PF.
2. rear deck under canopy.
3. what color should it be?
4. black?
5. camo color of upper?

Bob

Hello, comrades! Great work on display so far.
Sorry it has taken me so long to join you, but I've been working on infrastructure suitable for MiG construction as you can see here:
https://aeroscale.kitmaker.net/forums/174309&page=1#1463626

Anyways, I'm doing the start of the jet-powered MiG saga...the MiG-9. I'll be building the MPM 1:72 MiG-9, which you can see here:


This is one of MPM's early kits, and so test fitting has shown that a lot of interior plastic must be removed to get the parts to fit in between the halves. Conveniently, there's enough flash that I can melt it down and use it to make extra parts as needed.
More to come!

Hi Bob,
I picked up the the decal sheet for the MiG-15 on a ModelExpo last week - as far as I know, there are no decals for a single-seater available.

Regarding the rear deck of the MiG-17 I tend towards the typical MiG blue-grey of this era. But others may know more.

Cheers
Matt

Decals on


Zvezda MiG-31 by mawz_models, on Flickr

Now for the fiddly bits, and to fix the main undercarriage legs for about the 8th time.

As promised, the camo is on.
Next up is the two billion stencils and markings, so that should only take me a week or two .

Andy

Ohhh, I'm digging that Andy! Well done so far. Thanks for the pics. "Q" :):)

Ok, I made a startt on mine yesterday. I will be doing an Academy Mig-29A Fulcrum, with an Aires resin cockpit. Colour scheme is going to be a 'what if' Soviet digital number, inspired by the Slovak MiG-29 I saw at Farnborough last year. I dont like Academys decals, so I have the Luftwaffe kit, and will mask and paint the camo myself.

Pics tomorrow.

Calling this one done, although I might hang the tanks and missiles later.


Zvezda MiG-31 1/72 by mawz_models, on Flickr


Zvezda MiG-31 1/72 by mawz_models, on Flickr

It's been a fun if frustrating build.

Nicely done Adam. Make sure to post a pic or two in the gallery. "Q"

Already done ;-)

Very nice result!

Grant

Thanks!

I think its about time for me to post some WIP pics. Sorry, I've had a bit of a slow start with my entry.
So far I've clipped most of the main components off the sprues, done some test fittings, started on the cockpit, etc. Nothing that major.

I wonder what's the story of these interrupted panel lines?
My guess would be that a similar raised stiffener was made to the right fuselage half as on the left (see pic), the error got noticed and the detail removed without restoring the panel lines. Not a big issue, just three easily scribed straight lines.



Going through that pile of aftermarket stuff and contemplating which parts to use where and what not, I decided to use Pavla's better detailed resin fuselage wheel wells instead of the kit parts. Probably designed with some other kit in mind, the sidewall shape on the Pavla parts was different, requiring some shaping to fit into Zvezda's fuselage.



After getting the wheel wells to fit, I glued pieces of L-shaped styrene strip inside the fuselage to act as locators for the resin parts.
There were a couple of ejector marks in the rear fuselage that were puttied and sanded away. The "shelves" that the insrument panel coaming will sit on were quite short so I extended them with styrene strip.



Instead of a separate fuselage nose part and intake cone used in the PFM kit (right), the BIS has full fuselage halves and a nose cone that's trapped inside them (left).
Not only does that make the fuselage seam tricky to clean up around the nose cone already in place, the fit of the cone was slightly wobbly.



After some pondering, I figured out the exhaust pipe's back plate was an almost perfect fit to the front as well! Using them engine part as a template, I cut and shaped a piece of styrene sheet to work as a firm mount for the intake cone.



Bingo! Now the intake cone can be painted separately and installed later in the build. The nose seam will be much easier to reach as well.



In search of an interior colour to match the pre-painted PE, I bought two bottles of Lifecolor acrylics, LC08 (pale blue) and UA055 (RLM25), that looked like they might mix to make a close-enough shade.
After some mixing and testing, a mixing ratio of 2 parts pale blue to 1 part RLM25 seems to be pretty close.
What do you think? I is just me or the PE a tad bluer?



For the next update I hope to have some cockpit and engine work to show.

Nice update. Your blue mix is close enough for these eyes. Got to take into account that it will be hard to see the difference once installed and that the interior would have weathered as well as exterior colors. Well done. "Q"

A few qick photos of my MiG-29

Cockpit:-



Top:-



Undersides:-



A bit of filler and sanding required! :-



Sorry about image quality, I had to use my phone camera.

On to primer...

Nice progress Steve. Thanks for the update pics. "Q"

Hi all,

It's been a long time since I haven't done a Group Build. Since I'm currently working on the new Eduard MiG-21 MF, I thought I would be a good idea to enlist to this Campaign...

The MiG-21 is probably Eduard's best kit. The kit needs very little filler and is a joy to build.





Everything went fine until I reached the decalling stage. I didn't imagined that Russian jets carried so many stencils! It took me ages to apply them all!

I'm almost done with the painting and I hope to finish the model on Saturday.

Jean-Luc

Looking great so far Jean-Luc.
It is a beauty of a kit.


Yep, thats where mine has stalled a bit, really must get on with it, before it gets to the "never be completed stash" .
Andy