Mig-29 Fulcrum

There are Fulcrums built by Zvezda (Italeri, for sure), Eastern Express and Berkut in 1/72 scale, which are not very good, as I've read, but there are Revell's MiG 29A (Germany reunion) and Condor's MiG 29A &C in the same scale of which I would be delighted to know something more than the appearance of the box. I know that Condor's MiG 31 is in some ways better than Zvezda's.

Thanks for your help guys.

I ordered the 1/48 Academy kit tonight.

Shannon

QUOTE: Originally posted by mattp Monogram used to make a 1/48 kit if memory serves...

Yessiree. It's not the greatest kit and the fit is 'eh', but if all you want is something that looks like a MiG-29, it'll do.

The only other decent 48th MiG-29's out there are the Academy kits which are much nicer than Monogram's but still not the greatest. They made a Mig-29A and a MiG-29UB. If you're lookin' to build a really nice 48th Fulcrum you can use the Academy kits and some resin & brass or good 'ole fashioned scratchbuilding. I wish Hasegawa would come out with a MiG-29 of their own in 48th. (The kit they currently market is actually Monogram's.)

Speaking of reboxes... Tamiya's 72nd MiG-29 is the Italeri kit, but it's dang nice despite anything you hear about Italeri. I dunno how it fits, though, I don't build little scale.

The Hasegawa 72nd kit is decent but suffers from a lack of accuracy. It's a helluvalot better than Fujimi's 72nd kit, though. When the MiG-29 was first seen fairly close up by western eyes in 1986 it seemed that Fujimi and Hasegawa were in a race to release the first kit of this bird. Fujimi won the race but the result was a somewhat poor representation of the Fulcrum. Hasegawa took a little more care and, at the time, theirs was the finest MiG-29 kit out there. It's now starting to show it's age and I personally wouldn't build either, even if I did build little scale.

Revell had a 72nd MiG-29UB which was kinda okay. I dunno if they had a MiG-29A, though.

Uh...lessee... Oh yeah, the 32nd Revell. Nice model, I've built a couple of them and they go together fairly well. The only real bad point is the cockpit, not as much detail as you'd expect, but that's why ___ (insert sacred holy entity of choice) invented resin!

Real little scale... The DML/Dragon 1/144 kits are okay, but there's a much nicer kit out there; I just can't think of who made it. LS maybe? I think Tsukuda made one too, but I'm even less in touch with real little scale than with little scale.

Anyhoo, there's undoubtedly some others, like that Airfix kit...


Fade to Black...

Airfix have a MiG 29 in 1:72 - its a late mold 1990 ish and has had rave reviews. its OOP at present but not hard to find.

Revell/Germany also has a Mig-29 in 1/32 kit #04707. Got one sitting on the shelf along with a CAM cockpit detail set just waiting it's turn to be built.

There are quiet a few kits of the plane out, here are just a few:

Hasegawa 1/72 MiG-29 Fulcrum 'Hopsten 40th Anniversary'
Hasegawa 1/72 Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum
Hasegawa 1/48 Mig-29 Fulcrum
Hasegawa 1/48 Mig-29 Fulcrum "Striji"
Hasegawa 1/72 Macross Zero: Mig-29
Pit-Road 1/700 MiG-29 Fulcrum
Tamiya 1/72 WB MiG-29 Fulcrum
Dragon 1/144 F-15E vs Mig-29
Fujimi 1/72 Mig-29 Russian/North Korea Air Forc...
Fujimi 1/72 Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum

There will be more offerings by these and other manufacturers.

Monogram used to make a 1/48 kit if memory serves...