Valkyrie

Very tidy MiG 15! Great metal finish too

Bravo well done tricky camo too

Excellent, set up too is great, perfect lines and weathering very very good. Like a good Skyhawk great job

It certainly works the finish is very realistic

Yeah just this one with the blue nose, I've built the rest in the offerings. Nice kits

What an awesome build, well done indeed

Thanks Hewy, it does look better in the flesh, I need to invest in a camera. The paints are pretty darn good! Coastal craft do them in singles if you wanted to try or only grab a few rather than like me blowing over half your show budget on sets of for MiG-29 and SU-33

I hope so tho after seeing you MiG-25 and the stuff at the show at the weekend I'd be a bit embarrassed to display it now. I'm thinking of finishing touches to somehow improve it, hoping for better with the 31! Thanks!

Good on you...in the hands of an expert you will do it justice.

Great build looks fab! What metal paint was this?

Yes excellent work very well done!

Yes I have ordered a few replacements of these and out of 6 I only got one off intact. Nice build I fancy the new one too

Cockpit decals on, emerald green and all other colours and then a wash. Glued in and top and bottom front end glued together. Used my tamiya ultra thin cement for first time. It's virtually invisible but I don't feel it's really stuck the parts together all that well. May have to re glue with liquid poly. Sealed up and forgot 7 grams of nose weight. Opened it up and and added it to the nose cone and resealed...should be more than enough weight in there now. It looks a right mess but I think it's the light and the camera because it looks ok in real life.

Absolutely super, loved watching you bring it together too. Really inspiring work. Where will you find the space to display that beast from the east..

Thanks for all the great likes and comments!

Highly detailed thorough work there, this will be good...

Interior emerald Russian green and decals from the kit. My research showed an emarld green cockpit and position of decals so let this quickly dry off then fit together. Should I paint the parts first then decal on top or decal and paint around? I do the latter but be nicer if paint was on background behind the decals, but would it stick?

What a magnificent plane, scheme and country!

Yessssss I am foaming at the mouth! I do feel somewhat guilty making jump in as it sounds more than a tad tricky, but you seem to have a great way around it, see this is how newbies like me learn! Keep it up

Looking great already!!!

Jeez Louise your not hanging about! That AKAN paint is lovely stuff, even the little bottles are special. Mighty expensive though. Keep this rate us yes and you can build a few! I fancy a 21 at some point too so although you make this look easy il wait and see how it comes along. Great quick quality work

Work on the cockpit saw me remove 4 parts from sprues and use one of my brand new Russian paints from AKAH/AKAN. Radio transparent grey, meant to be dark grey camo on MiG-29 SMT but I wanted to try it out. Apllied to sides of both ejector seats and instrument panel cover and stick control panel. Lovely grey, lovely paint and went on a treat with my new detailing brush which makes small bits easy to paint accurately. I should have bought a pack! Quick drying so posting on here before moving on to paint the green cockpit interior. Says light green on instructions....do I not need my emerald green for this one?

Hi Mitch, it's the really old Airfix starter set, this is the only option. Would be good kit with aftermarket decal choice as it builds really well with zero fit issue, basic though, Thanks for looking in.

And.....we are off! Just driven to and back from my first show at Perth (Scotland) today it was amazing. The builds up there are awesome and there was a MiG-31 in one of the competitions, think I took 90+ pictures it was so good I went back to view another couple of times...then inspired to get onto my own MiG-31 i mach 3'd it back down to begin....with 3 MiGs and an SU-33 and 27...and £40 worth of Russian AKAH Paints....I get married today in 8 months and she'd have a fit if she knew how much... MiG-31...begins and I am not going to rush this one...

Zvezda IS2 then its completely Russian.....