MiG-15 Fagot, Airfix's new 1/72 kit Options

[CPNGROATS]

Hi Nick.

Sure looks like a MIG-15 to me...!!

Good points on the panel/scribed/shaded/pre/post/debate...

Cheers,
ggc

[Jonathan Mock]

It puzzles me that very often the same modellers who are critical about panel lines use complex pre and post shading techniques to apply panel detail with paint, often with heavy, unrealistic and purely artistic results! In some cases scale detail is so finely produced by the manufacturer (one example I can think of is the ICM Ki-27) that it is almost impossible to preserve when painting.

That reminds me of a guy who used to be in a local model club 20 years back, he would not build kits with raised panel lines (his prerogative) and would eulogise the latest Hasegawa or Fujimi releases at the time (and rightly so), but would then finish his models with what looked like a roller and emulsion paint because all the fine detail got obliterated. And then he'd be nit picking an exquisitely painted model (usually airbrushed) and repeatedly barking "raised panel lines, not realistic" under clouds of pipe smoke.

I think I wasn't the only member who felt that it was akin to someone demanding the finest haute cuisine and then smothering everything in tomato ketchup. Still, if that's what people like to do...

Anyway, nice MiG, I love the weathered metal look, reminds me of the photos you see from Monino.

[Seamus]

Great little build Paul, looks lush

I recently finished this kit in the Hungarian scheme and had a blast, cracking little kit which offers excellent value for money

[Julien]

Looks good, I have one ready to go.

I do like the way you finished the kit and the pannel lines.

Julien

[Mish]

sweet little build

[MadNurseGaz]

Super little model!
If mine comes out half as good I'll be pleased! (Don't care what anyone says about panel lines)

I think the panel line debate is basically about our preferences, or "Modeller's Licence" (mine's a provisional)
It's like soft or hard edge demarcation in RAF WW2 camo schemes. Everyone knows that in the smaller scales,
you wouldn't be able to discern a true-to-scale soft demarcation but, if you make a hard-edged demarcation on,
say, a Mosquito, it doesn't look right, so modelers depict a soft edge that, if scaled up to full-size, shows a fade-out
from one colour to the other over about six inches(that's 15 cm for younger or continental modellers.)which is incorrect!
It's all a bit like the Philosophers' Union in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who demanded rigidly defined
areas of doubt and uncertainty!

[martin hale]

Very smart!

Martin