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Looks like we are getting a new top quality " MiG-21 serie Walkaround "

 

Top work Gabor , thanks very much.

 

I think I can still make some use of YOUR PP Aeroparts set !

 

Madcop.

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On 7/2/2018 at 6:02 PM, ya-gabor said:

The torques blue (green)

Gabor, Hi!

Emerald, original name was emerald:

In general, you built very good and great! A lot of useful information!

 

B.R.

Serge

 

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Actually the same question was posted by two different people at two different forums roughly at the same time. The answer in the IPMS Nymburk forum contains a little more info.

 

23.07.2018-23:16  -  Vladimír Šulc    Dotaz na Eduardy

PFM a PF vydáme v průběhu příštího roku. Přesné termíny ještě nemáme určené. R a Bis budou pravděpodobně o rok později.

 

We will release PFM and PF during the next year. Exact release dates are not yet determined. R and Bis will probably come the year after.

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I can also remember these times. I remember when Hasegawa released his 1/32 F-16,my friend rushed about the kit and as Model Colours for F-16 were not available at the time, there we went to an airbase where we had some contacts and we managed to get some original paints in different bottles. These were 3 components paint.( paint-solvent-hardener) These were smelling a lot. Back home we went on painting the F-16 with these original colours. The Hasegawa plastic didn't even craze ...what I still can't explain !

I didn't have a mask , and while  the paint didn't manage to craze the plastic it did to my head !  I had headaches for two weeks, but this F-16 model wore the right colours !. Since then I have built a spray boot with an industrial extractor going out through my home roof and I am  wearing  a mask , even for acrylic paints !

 

While you were trying to get kits from the West , we did the same for these " hard to get-mysterious" Eastern bloc products….

 

The times, they are changing !

 

C'mon Gabor, let us show all these subtil differences between real and "false" MiG-21 MF and keep on going with this Eduard kit…..😂

 

Madcop.

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On 7/24/2018 at 3:14 PM, ya-gabor said:

Actually the very first kit built around 1968 was a Russian Yak-3 kit from an unknown producer in strange scale (think 1/30 - 1/40 or similar)

Gabor, it was Yak-3 Moscow factory "Krugozor" in 1/50 scale:

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There was also metal die-cast Yak-3 1/72.

About Soviet MiG-9 in big scale we do not know anything. Are you sure that it was the MiG-9?

All MiG-9 which I knew were on a scale of 1/72, it was an injection of MiG-9 from Novosibirsk "Scarabey" and a vacuum from Kharkov "Aviastend", but they first appeared in the late 80's.

However, there was something strange called the "MiG-19" which looked more like a single-seat Mikoyan I-320 and was supposed to be a copy of Lindberg's model:

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On 7/26/2018 at 11:03 AM, madcop said:

While you were trying to get kits from the West , we did the same for these " hard to get-mysterious" Eastern bloc products….

Some mysterious" Eastern bloc products (as "Kamov Ka-15")

which you are unlikely to meet in reality can be seen here:

 

On 7/26/2018 at 11:03 AM, madcop said:

The times, they are changing !

 Technology is changing, but times seem to come back old. At least, recently, I often recall the expression "History develops in a spiral, repeating with each new turn what it was before"

 

B.R.

Serge

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"Once again when released it was good, but when was that . . . "  

 

21bis  December 1990

 

SMT, RF, PF Late and Early, PFM in 1991

 

MF. April 1992

 

The "New" ZVEZDA bis is already 12 years old and the Revell F-13 is now 14 Years old !

 

I still have this Heller MiG-21 !

 

Have a nice "remembrance" day !

 

Madcop   🙄

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9 hours ago, ya-gabor said:

To show the difference between the original Russian cockpit blue colour and the one used by Hungarian AF from mid 70’s a Russian original piece of canopy heating duct was put on the canopy of a Hungarina MF. Actually exactly the same parts.

 

 

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Looks like the "Wallkyd Green" paint has chipped, revealing turquoise color beneath. Do you know if the cockpit was painted over in Hungary, and if yes, when?

 

I have to say your detail painting is very impressive. It looks better than prepainted photoetch, just as sharp but with more depth.

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Hi Gabor

 

Real nice attention to details. Could you maybe post a picture showing the differences on the sticks handgrips ?

 

You said " The main airbrake in the kit is a definitive NO USE part (D45) for me. It is way too thick and lacks details. A set of new main airbrakes was made."

 

Did you build it out of plastic sheet , or from another one or from P.E. ?

 

Looking forward to see more of your work , especially on the nose ….

 

Many thanks,

 

Madcop 😉

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Hello,

 

Very, very interesting topic ! Many thanks Gabor for sharing all your knowledge on the Mig.

 

I'm looking forward to your next update on this topic

 

Ivan  

 

 

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