Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-15 Warpaint No.120
This topic began in the thread on the latest book from Guideline Publications that you can see here, but drifted off topic, so has been stripped out to continue on its own merits
I bought this a couple of months ago, and if the plans in the book are accurate, then the new tool/boxing of the Airfix Mig 15 has a fuselage that is way too big and the fairly old KP Mig 15 is about right.
The book itself is very good, an interesting read in its own right.
The drawings are wrong, although most 1/72 kits (old 1958 Airfix, KzP, Dragon/Italeri/Zvezda) do follow them closely (more or less). The main fault of these drawings (and kits forementioned) is the vertical fin leading edge angle - more akin the Ouragan/Mystere than MiG.
The new (2009) Airfix is totally wrong - oversized and faulty in dozens of places. But the only feature captured correctly there is.. the fin shape. Since its first appearance 10 years ago it has been said several times in
