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Large scale MiG-29 cockpit model

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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Northern California
Large scale MiG-29 cockpit model
Posted by jeaton01 on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:44 PM

I have been working on this project for 8 months or more and it has seriously disrupted my modeling time.  I was supplied the bare resin castings minus a few detail parts which I scratchbuilt, nothing much, just a few parts needed.  I drew the instruments and marking and placards from photos in references and made the decals with the ALPS.  Mostly Tamiya paints, the cockpit base color is a mix of blues and greys to get the MiG 29 color,  Had some help on that as I am not so hot at mixing colors.  It is 1/6 scale and is part of the Mosher turbine powered MiG 29 kit for R/C.  I added the Russian to my keyboard and the 2 years of that language I took 40 or so years ago helped in getting the placards more or less right.  Had some fun with the small print, what am I to do when I just can't find a photo with enough resolution.  So, somewhere in there a circuit breaker is named "working girl", but in Russian text, and a few others the Russian bureaucrats may have issues with.  Find them if you can, I don't really remember which onesSmile [:)]

Here is a link to a series of photos on my web site:

http://www.yolo.net/~jeaton/mymodels/mig29/1mig29/1mig29.htm


 

 

 

John

To see build logs for my models:  http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html

 

  • Member since
    July 2004
  • From: Northern KY
Posted by mucker on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:09 PM

John:

that's stunning! What a cool project, to boot. My hats off to you!

  • Member since
    September 2003
  • From: South Central Wisconsin
Posted by Daywalker on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:56 PM
 mucker wrote:

John:

that's stunning! What a cool project, to boot. My hats off to you!

Sign - Ditto [#ditto] Amazing work!  Now, when do we get a peek at the REST of the airplane? Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

Frank 

 

  • Member since
    July 2013
Posted by IL2windhawk on Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:31 AM
Gorgeous!!

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  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Niagara Falls NY
Posted by Butz on Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:43 AM

 Sweet lookin..!! Excellent job John..!!

Flaps up,

Mike

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  • Member since
    November 2003
  • From: Naples, FL
Posted by tempestjohnny on Thursday, September 11, 2008 5:52 AM
That is cool.  Now where is that Esci 104 cockpit.

 

  • Member since
    May 2003
  • From: Abbotsford, B.C. Canada
Posted by DrewH on Thursday, September 11, 2008 7:06 AM
Excellent job John! Bow [bow] It looks fantastic!
Take this plastic and model it!
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    April 2005
  • From: Piscataway, NJ!
Posted by wing_nut on Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:40 PM
Very cool project indeed.  i too would take my hat off to you but the glare may blind you and you might trip over that giant cockpit.

Marc  

  • Member since
    March 2008
  • From: Charleston, SC
Posted by kg4kpg on Thursday, September 11, 2008 4:12 PM

Oops, saw a spelling error.  Big Smile [:D]  Just kidding, I wouldn't know Russian if one walked up and wacked me in the back of the head,  Awesome work, love the detail.  Do you have the plane it goes to or just like doing the pits?

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Northern California
Posted by jeaton01 on Thursday, September 11, 2008 7:57 PM

Thanks again for the upside comments.  I did this cockpit for the guy who sells the kits for the MiG-29  It's one of those lots of carbon fiber jobs, with the investment involved I don't believe one is in my future.  I like less risky flying models to fly, with less effort for the ground crew.  I much prefer watching others fly theirs.  But, there was this F-106 I saw.....

Here are some photos of the airplane, I had no part in its construction.

 

John

To see build logs for my models:  http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html

 

  • Member since
    February 2003
Posted by Jim Barton on Monday, September 15, 2008 12:41 PM
A very different build; you don't see that every day! Very good!

"Whaddya mean 'Who's flying the plane?!' Nobody's flying the plane!"

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