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I have similar observations. It's funny how often on many forums or comments on FB various people lecture manufacturers on how models should be made, because ‘they design and know’. But once the critics start designing something, it turns out that their knowledge and skills are much inferior to what the preaching to the manufacturers would suggest.
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As I wrote above - none of the photographs are dated and there is no other data to make any certain conclusions, even about a single photo session. It is not even known what type of film these photos were taken on, nor is there any good colour reference for better analysis. The same, by the way, is true of the thread on LSP - the green from the colour photos from the museum may or may not be a clue. The blue given in one of the posts there also. MiG-19PM, 335, exhibited in Bautzen Traditionsvorstartlinie, later in Luftwaffen Museum at Berlin-Gatow and now at Luftfahrttechnisches Museum Rothenburg, on all photos had blue radome: https://aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=85292 https://www.biancahoegel.de/flug/typen/ru/mig/mig-19pm-ddr.html https://airfighters.com/photosearch.php?con=65210929 And 391 once again, with green radome. Whether the museums, in painting the 335 blue and the 391 green, chose a ‘prettier’ colour for themselves, or based it on the original paint, is unknown. We do not even know if they could have been blue and green radomes at the same time.
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The kits are released following a certain schedule, this one will also be released, be patient.
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It's not that bad. These pictures of the 391 are not dated, but my impression is that the radome had different colours. The third one is darker, the second one lighter, and the first one looks like the top part is darker and the bottom part is lighter. Obviously it's hard to interpret black and white photos, but you have some options. Source: Mikojan-Gurewitsch MiG-19S/PM published by Bmvd-Verlag in 2004 The thread East Germany Mig-19PM, ‘What are those colours...?’ on Large Scale Planes is very interesting. There is a hint there that this darker colour is blue, but on the museum copy (painted in a fantasy camouflage) the radome is green. I think a repaint is possible, as the 391 flew until the end of MiG-19PMs service in the East Germany. The choice of colour (and full responsibility for that choice) is yours.
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1/48 - RWD-13 by Answer Plastic Kits - sprues
Piotr Mikolajski replied to Homebee's topic in The Rumourmonger
Unfortunately, this manufacturer does not have a history of delivering announcements quickly, rather the opposite. I wrote more about this in one of the threads, possibly the one about the Wilga announcement. -
Blank spots look more like a filler than like an announcement.
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1/48 - RWD-13 by Answer Plastic Kits - sprues
Piotr Mikolajski replied to Homebee's topic in The Rumourmonger
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From old announcements, just like the Cessna O-1. I wouldn't count too much on a Vixen release, but as long as the catalogue number hasn't been taken up by something else, there is some minimal hope.
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Well... yes and no. There are not many colour photos, but nevertheless a few can be found. The first photo is not dated, but it is a MiG-19PM from a Soviet unit, the radome is light grey. Source: MiG-19P. All-weather Interceptor Variants. MiG-19P, PG, PM & PML, Shenyang J-6A, Nanchang J-6B, Guizhou J-6IV published by 4+ in 2005. Another photo (from the same photo session, I guess) can be found on the cover of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19. The Soviet Union's First Production Supersonic Fighter, published by Aerofax/Midland Publishing in 2003. The next two photos were taken at Žatec airbase in Czechoslovakia in 1958, the year MiG-19P 0745 entered service with the 11th Fighter Air Regiment. Source: MiG-19P 0745 @ valka.cz. In this case the radome appears to be light blue, maybe with a touch of grey, it is hard to conclude exactly from these photos. I think they can be considered as separate colour than Soviet ones, but with so few sources this is not a hill I am going to die on. Last but not least we have this MiG-19PM at the end of its service in Czechoslovakia, photographed at Plzeň-Líně airbase in the early 1970s, certainly before 24.08.1972 when it was written off and scrapped. The radome is clearly dark blue, way darker than ones on the previous two aircraft. If you add green to that, you have at least four different colours of radome on the MiG-19P and PM fighters (three if we count two light ones as 'one with different shades'). Were there more? Well, I've also seen red radomes on colour profiles, but whether they were based on anything more reliable than the artist's imagination, I have no idea. Polish Air Force Before I move on to the colours, a brief overview of the MiG-19s used in Poland, because even in the large studies by well-known authors, a lot of mistakes can be found. MiG-19P (7th series): 721, 723, 724, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 734, 736 and 739; MiG-19P (10th series): 1007, 1008, 1011, 1012, 1015, 1017, 1018, 1021, 1023, 1024, 1025, 1027 and 1029; MiG-19PM (9th series): 902, 904, 905, 906, 908, 909, 910, 911, 912, 914, 916 and 917. Contrary to numerous information and colour profiles: MiG-19S version was not used in Poland; Aircraft with tactical numbers 212, 219, 1623, 1626, 1722 and 1725 are pure fantasy; Polish MiG-19s were not sold to Bulgaria, aircraft were overhauled in Plovdiv only. The following units operated MiG-19s: Wyższa Szkoła Pilotażu [since 1960 Centrum Szkolenia Lotniczego] (Advanced Flying School / Air Training Centre – conversion unit) at Modlin – December 1957 → 1959 – this unit operated all MiG-19s and probably all of them had 'light' radomes; 62. Pułk Lotnictwa Myśliwskiego (62nd Fighter Air Regiment) at Krzesiny – Autumn 1958 → September/October 1962 – this unit operated MiG-19Ps only, in 1962 handed over to 28th and 39th FARs, probably all of them had 'light' radomes; 39. Pułk Lotnictwa Myśliwskiego (39th Fighter Air Regiment) at Mierzęcice – Late 1958 → 1967 – all MiG-19s were handed over to 28th FAR [MiG-19PMs in November 1965, MiG-19Ps in 1966-1967]; 28. Pułk Lotnictwa Myśliwskiego (28th Fighter Air Regiment) at Słupsk – December 1958 → December 1974 – main operator of MiG-19s in Poland and most available photos were taken in this unit. By December 1974 half of the all MiG-19s survived, just 10 of them were airworthy: 728 was donated to museum in Kołobrzeg, 905 to museum in Kraków, 908 was placed as a gate guardian in Słupsk, 736 and 1018 were handed over to the Air Force Technical Officer School in Oleśnica as technical aids. Remaining airframes were transferred to the Nadarzyce bombing range. Back to the colours – we don't have many photos of Polish MiG-19Ps and PMs, but they clearly show that the radomes were ‘light’ and ‘dark’. Unfortunately, very few are dated, so it is not very possible to indicate when the 'darker' variant appeared. In the absence of a detailed history of each aircraft, it is possible only to speculate and/or draw conclusions from just a few available info so three non-exclusive hypotheses can be put forward: refreshment of the paint coating in the unit; refreshment of the paint coating during technical inspection of the aircraft after taking over from another unit; refreshment of the paint coating during periodic overhaul in Bulgaria. In July 1964, a formation of MiG-19 fighters was assembled at the airbase in Nowe Miasto, in preparation for a parade. In the photographs, aircraft 721, 723, 724, 730, 910, 1015, 1025 can be identified and it seems all have ‘lighter’ covers. We have photos of 724 from its service in 39th AFR after that date and radome is 'darker'. Photos of 1008 and 1018 also show 'lighter' radome. Another dated photo is 904 with 'darker' radome in June 1965. It seems that the radomes were repainted somewhere around 1965. And finally – what was the ‘darker’ colour? Fortunately, three colour photographs of the 905, made in 1970s in Słupsk were published in 1980. Admittedly, the quality of printing during the communist era was embarrassingly poor, but it is nevertheless clear in these photos that the radome is green. There is no point in discussing the exact shade of green, but radome certainly was not dark blue.
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Timestamp: 2m12s - Instruction 9m23s - Parts (Building) 20m01s - Decals 21m53s - Pilot (still awful) 22m15s - Canopy 23m50s - Author's comments on the construction of the model. Notes: Test shot parts. The details of the weapon bays and wheel bays seem to be really good. The fuselage halves seem to have some minor fit issues. Clever idea with use of weapon bays doors as a 'mask'.
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The model has a 2010 catalogue number, so the content will be the same as in 2010.
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Just peeked at the aforementioned book in the ‘Polish Wings’ series. According to it, the RP-5 radomes on the MiG-19P were originally grey, but later repainted green. Whether all of them, it's hard to say. In the case of the MiG-19PM, all photos indicate that the RP-2U radomes were green. One of the colour profiles suggests grey for one aircraft, but this is rather an error of interpretation, photo below that profile shows radome much darker than grey. I have no idea how it was with the Czechoslovak MiG-19s, but for the Polish '905' this cover should be green. @dimaADA, please ask Mr Alonso for a quick fix.
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1/48 - IAR.80 & IAR.81 family by IBG Models - in project
Piotr Mikolajski replied to Homebee's topic in The Rumourmonger
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