Hardtarget Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 My build for this GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintsPhil Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Cool, welcome to GB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amen Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 Looking forward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardtarget Posted April 6, 2014 Author Share Posted April 6, 2014 Right, i actually made a start on this little beauty. Too many other project int he way. Cockpit from both angles. soviet interior colour airbrushed along with other colour call outs required. Nose cone, added weight, Burner can and pit cemented to the stb fuselage. Halves met, with the 'hump' and tail in situ. Both wing halves were also cemented toghether at this point ready for mating. Interior colour for the wheel wells, ntot sure if this is correct as the instructions call for hemp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amen Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 (edited) I think wheel wells usually are painted interior green and the fuselage hatch doors with a light gray. You should check some refs for the version you are building. Edited April 7, 2014 by Amen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cooper Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 (edited) Are you going for an Egyptian MiG-21RF? If yes, I would have some 'minor but important' tips (some related to the intake conus too!), so hope it's not too late... Re. interior colour for wheel wells: hard to say, but 'best guess' ('gauging by photos'), silver grey on some-, or 'the same colour like undersides of the plane' in other cases. Edited April 7, 2014 by Tom Cooper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardtarget Posted April 8, 2014 Author Share Posted April 8, 2014 Tom, I am planning to do the other scheme the MF rather than the peeping version but any help would be welcome. Ive found photos of the wheel wells in LAG/Grey as per the oleos and the doors the same colour as the underside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cooper Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Basically, Egyptian MiG-21RFs were a special variant that had most of its recce cameras installed internally. They had a relatively small and shallow 'canoe' housing (roughly in place where there is a gun on M/MF/bis variants). Correspondingly, the cover on this box is misleading: it's showing an 'Egyptian MiG-21R' - the 'standard' variant, delivered to almost everybody else (only Iraqis have got RFs too), and without such a housing. That's something that never existed. Anyway, because of such an installation, Egyptian MiG-21RFs needed no pod with recce cameras and they operated most of the times (say, something like 99% of their missions) without it. Very seldom, they would take the D-pod with them (for ELINT gathering). Furthermore, Egyptians were greatly disappointed by the quality of Soviet recce cameras and have replaced these with Vintens. And as next, they took out the radar: this was useless, and only representing unnecessary weight. In a plane that's so chronically short on fuel like MiG-21 is, and for ops where speed is most important of all (like recce ops), any weight = bad. Instead, they cut out a small window on the lower side of the intake conus, and installed another Vinten there (this was looking 'forward' - at depressed angle, of course). So, a proper config for Egyptian MiG-21RF for the period these planes saw most of their combat service - which is 1970-1974 - would be 3x drop tanks and 2x R-3S (the latter on inboards, of course). And you need something like a 'small window' at the bottom of the intake conus - if making an Egyptian (or Iraqi) MiG-21RF, of course. If you're going for some other air force - for example Ethiopia, Syria, or Yugoslavia - then the story is 'slightly different', of course. Finally, the spin on your modell... is definitely that of a MiG-21bis (which, of course, is not your fault, but that of the manufacturer). MiG-21R was actually a further development of the MiG-21PFM. Its 'full lenght' spin - which became something like a 'matrix' for the subsequent MiG-21S/SM/M/MF variants - was much thinner than what can be seen on photos of your modell, and ending near the leading edge of the fin (not 'half way down it'). Overall, considering how far you've already got with your modell, it might be worth thinking about finishing it as some MiG-21bis: that's definitely not going to require as much re-working as 'retro-converting' it to a 'true' MiG-21R/RF. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardtarget Posted April 19, 2014 Author Share Posted April 19, 2014 Thanks for the info Tom. Luckily it wasnt too late and decided to take your observations and turn this into a bis. Main airframe assembled. Airbrushed Hu270001 and on her wheels. In this shot she has also had a coat of klear ready for decals. Ive also raised the pitot tube on the stb side as it was a little low. She will now represent a Polish AF kite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amen Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Seems you have done a nice painting with the bis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cooper Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 What became of markings in the case of this bis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardtarget Posted May 2, 2014 Author Share Posted May 2, 2014 They are on, she is a Polish machine, just need to photo her and put her in the gallery before sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cooper Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 Very nice. Looking forward for photos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardtarget Posted May 4, 2014 Author Share Posted May 4, 2014 (edited) Complete. Fujimi Mig-21bis 1/72 Polish airforce Thanks to Tom for pointing out his kits issues, and not beaing able to make a peeping mnig afterall. Edited May 4, 2014 by Hardtarget 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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