Eduard MiG-21R

[Fido996]

After posting my first build on this forum, I've now got quite a taste for it. So after rummaging through the stash list I ended up with about four choices;

1. Tamiya F-84G

2. AMK L-29

3. Kittyhawk F-35A

4. Airfix Gnat

After a while I found that I kept coming back to Eduard's Silver Arrow edition of the MiG-21. I've been slowly adding the missing sprues and etch so that I can build all three versions eventually, and it was whilst doing the original sort out that I realised that there were a couple of important parts missing. These were very kindly replaced by Eduard themselves.

So, on with the show.

The box top art is carried over onto both instruction booklets.

This is the scheme chosen.

Just as a side note, could someone please translate the boxes at the top for me. A wild guess, but is the first one the mix for the interior colour?

The build has started and the first thing on the agenda was to wash all the sprues in warm, soapy water. This was left to dry over night and then everything was sprayed with Halfords grey primer. Some areas were then assembled such as the cockpit and main wheel well. The cockpit area was then sprayed with MIG.223 Turquoise Green.

Then the green areas such as the tail, wheel hubs, recon pod, nose cone and parts of the exhaust area were sprayed Tamiya XF-5.

Another first for during a build was adding some rivet detail. I'm hoping this will come into its own at the weathering stage for paint chipping.

First impressions of the kit are that its light years ahead of my previous build. This kit just seems to fall together with a lot of the seams just disappearing. And thats before any glue!

One thing I'm stuck on though is the colour for the wheel bays. There's nothing mentioned at all in the instructions. I normally use Tamiya XF-23 but I understand things are little different for Czech MiGs. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers, and thanks for reading.

[Muzz]

It's a great series of kits, I've built the PFM boxing and have the MF and Bis in the stash. You're quite correct the box contains the ratio for mixing Gunze paints for the cockpit colours to match the PE.

Enjoy!

Muzz

[Fido996]

Slow progress with this project, but its still rumbling along nicely.

A rough check for the fit of the main parts revealed no waiting disasters.

This then led to everything being painted, inserted and all buttoned up nicely.

There then followed the clean up during which I dropped the model onto my foot. It landed nose first and snapped the very tip off which then had to be fished out. Didn't realise how sharp it was

The tip was rebuilt using some putty, sanded to shape and then painted.

The last few bits were added that would stay on ( possibly ) during the painting process. Still think I may be pushing my luck with the pitot.

And thats where we are now. Everything ready for the paint shop. The underside is polished slightly with a well used nail buffing stick to hopefully give the aluminium a smooth sheen. Got a couple of hours tonight to get the aluminium done at least.

Cheers and thanks for reading.

[snapper_city]

Looking good.