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 Finding a slightly used J47 shouldn't be TOO hard!!

Uh huh...

Hopefully I can find something in resin so that I don't have to use another kit. Unless I fudge it a little, I'll have to start looking at some F-86 options.

Academys 48 scale f-86 has one in it apparently

Ok ive come up with a plan for my MIG, ill be doing a fantasy/whatif paint scheme on it. Ill be painting her in the RNZAF 1970's harvard red checkers scheme. something like this

But a mig21PFM lol

So, colours will be

Light Grey body

Red Wingtips and tail.

Red and white Checkered nose with red intake spike

Flat black Antiglare strip

RNZAF roundels and numbering

From what i understand this is a nice easy kit. cant wait to get started. Not much filling, but lots of weight in the nose. The intake spike needs to be shortened by about 1/16th on an inch (can anyone put this in metric for me?) Otherwise its a very nicley detailed kit. hopefully i can get started next week sometimes.

Those colors would look great on a MiG-21, Mikey! The MiG is a beautiful plane and I would love  to see it with a red and white checkered nose.

A little bit of foolin' around here. I did some filing and sanding on the rear of a fuselage half to try and correct the shape of it. The area was too large. Notice the original part on the right... the fuselage lines toward the back of the plane at an angle like they will meet each other and then they kind of straighten out and level off before they reach the exhaust opening. The left one is the corrected fuselage half. Notice how the lines in the fuselage stay at the same angles all the way to the rear of the plane. It needs a little fine tuning but it looks right.

It took alot of filing, sanding and eye-balling to get her in that shape. Good thing the plastic is really thick! Now I have to do the other side.

shes gonna look a beauty jmabx, are you gonna rescribe the panel lines? or leave it smooth?

I'm going to rescribe and rerivet the whole plane!  

thats gonna be a massive mission, good luck

Jeremy, looking forward to seeing her together soon. The extra effort now will pay off later!!!

Scorp 1/16 is roughly 1.5mm

wicked, cheers, i shall start on that ASAP, its hard when alot of specs are in Imperial and you work in metric

ok i started the mig this morning, this is what ive got to work with.

The plastics odd, its hard enough that the knife takes a bit of effort to cut through, but its soft enough that if i try and scrape a seam it just peels goes all weird.

This is where im up to so far. the cockpit colour is slightly off but i dont think many people would see it lol.

Ill have more updates tommorow

Looking forward to seeing that one come together Scorp!!!!! Should join the NMF II GB as well!!!

I would but if you look at my previous posts its not going to be NMF, itle be ghost grey with orange wingtips and tail with RNZAF markings

Well, she drew first blood, managed to slice my thumb open and paint the exhaust peices blood red. 2 reasons for this, 1. im an idiot, 2. i should have spent more time getting used to the plastic before i started cutting TOWARDS myself *facepalm*

That sucks! I've had many a wound from the Xacto and I always see them coming. Will I ever learn? Nah.

Scorpiomikey

 ...1. im an idiot...

And this seems to be my major malfunction most of the time!

hows your bird going jb?

I'm stalled at the moment while I try to figure out how to mount an engine. Doing my homework and comparing exhaust opening sizes, I'm pretty confident that I can use the tailpipe that came with the F-84 kit. I've been real busy these last couple of weeks but hopefully I can get some progress pics up sometime this week.

true, keep us updated, im enjoying your build. eager to see how it comes out

Scorpiomikey

true, keep us updated, im enjoying your build. eager to see how it comes out

nice work so far, I just found this GB!

would like to join if possible, even though won't be able to start building for a bit. Candidates are the Tamiya 1:48 TA183A W/Kettenkraftrad, the Dragon Natter, or go 'modern" with the Revell X-15 oldie.  Will figure it out down the road ;)

Sweet, im happy to put you in with the Natter and the X-15 but for the TA-183 youd need to put the optional RATO pods on. Otherwise sweet as, send me the details on your kits and ill put you up on the list

The Natter would be a cool build! Doesn't the Dragon kit include the launch tower?

Hey Mikey... I've been a little busy but I promised some pics of the progress up 'till now. Not much but here it is...

If you remember, I fixed the shape of the rear fuselage with alot of sanding and shaping.

Hard to see from this view but the corrected half is on the left.

With both sides finished, I hollowed out the rear. Like many planes of the era, the XF-91 had the engine tailpipe in the fuselage surrounded by the outer sheet metal.

And from what I can tell, the F-84 tailpipe should be about the right size and look to use as the J-47. If not, we'll always think that it should have been.

I just need to figure out how I want to mount it in the fuselage and add some internal framework. Everything is rather rough right now but it will all come together eventually.

Looking good Jeremy!!! Your reshaping really looks much much better!!!!

nicley done, looking really good.

Thanks guys!

Mikey - How's the colorful MiG coming along?

Shes all assembled. just tidying a few gaps up. Ill post pics this weekend. Still trying to work out where the red should start on the tail because the harvards start under the rear of the cockpit. but if i do that with this bird itle all be red. so im thinking Ill start it at the trailing edge of the wings.

Scorpiomikey

Shes all assembled. just tidying a few gaps up. Ill post pics this weekend. Still trying to work out where the red should start on the tail because the harvards start under the rear of the cockpit. but if i do that with this bird itle all be red. so im thinking Ill start it at the trailing edge of the wings.

Or maybe the start of the leading edges of the horiz. stabs??? I would put a scanned side view or something into paint shop and see what looks the best. BTW thanks for the PM Mikey, won't start till after the middle of next month probably.

good idea. thanks. just looking at it i might go up from the leading edges of the horizontal stabilizers up to the spinal hump. and then do the whole spine red along with the vertical stabiliser. photos of my current progress shortly.

Paintshop? whats that? do you mean photoshop? i cant get my head around that. too confusing.

Ok, photos as promised. So far the only filler ive used on this is thick paint. A few seams needed to be filed back. I had to cut the locator pics off because they were useless and ended up making it a bit wonky.  

Flash washed this photo out a bit. sorry. Ill have to fill the forward hole in the fuselage because this is for the gun pod slung underneath but because im doing an aerobatic version ill be putting the centerline fuel tank on.  

Hard to see. but its all black down there with drybrushed silver to pick out the high points.

In the process of making some seatbelts for it. seat was a little spartan so im just using some making tape to make some belts.

If you make this one bigger you can see the detail on the control panel. Just a bluey green drybrushed black to pick out the instruments.

This was the biggest gap. you can just see it at the front of the vertical fin.

Other big gap, sorry washed out again. was just along the base of the ventral fin. filled with white glue and tidied up.

So shes coming along rather quickly. i look at some of the pics and notice mistakes here and there. but itle be ok. Working on the fiddly bits now. so frustrating. Especially since everything is just not quite fitting flush. Hopefully i can get the main construction finished this weekend. But ive got a flat inspection on tuesday so things might go a bit slow for a few days.

Almost forgot this one. this shows the paint scheme ill be using.

Ill be using the markings for 76. But i was thinking of raiding some of my other kits to create a new Rego for it. Skyhaws were 62 (NZ6201 etc) Machis were 64 i think. so im thinking of using 78 (NZ7876) well see what happens

Sorry for the delay guys. Just a quick update. shes masked and ready for Red. now i gotta mix the red to the right shade (its a wierd fire orange)