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Please don't stay here if you are looking for something accurate. This is Airfix's venerable Mig 21-F-13 which had the year 1968 on the inside of one of the fuselage halves. Fit was typical of older Airfix kits, it needed some careful alignment, gluing a little at a time to line the fuselage halves up as they were slightly bent. There's plenty of perfect plastic putty on this one. I had a set of decals for a Zimbabwe Chengdu F7 on an African Migs decal sheet, and the F7 is a derivitive of the Mig 21-F-13 so I went with it. There are some differences, drogue chute fairing at the base of the fin, twin cannons, two pylons under each wing, but this was just for fun; a quick build to use the decals so it is more or less out of the box. The photos of the Zimbabwe F7s showed them with twin fuel tanks so I used the tanks from my KP Mig 21MF which is waiting in the stash. Paint is mostly Model Colour, which sprays brilliantly when thinned with Vallejo's airbrush thinner. White isn't easy to photograph, but these will give you an idea of the latest addition to the cabinet:
