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Thanks Dre, first time making my own.

Man it's pretty clear we all must be quite busy this time of year! I will try my best to start my Mig this side of Christmas. The 1/32 Mig 21MF, how is everyone?

Nice pit, Steve! Can't wait to see more.

Well, for me, good news and bad news. The bad news is that I'm in a holding pattern until I know what's going on with some home renovations (which would disrupt my basement workspace). I'd hate to dive into a project then have to pack up everything halfway through to make way for plumbers, electricians etc. I didn't really think about this when I started the GB. Duh. :-(

The good news is I'm happy to continue to "lead" the GB and watch everyone else's progress, if you guys don't mind. Lemmeno....

PB

Thank you Porkbits, I spent the last 2 nights pulling me hair out with the P-26 for the "Yellow Wings " GB. I'm going to take a break from the 26 and get back on the MiG today, so I SHOULD have some updated pics tonight.

I drive my wife crazy. If I don't have a work space I just move everything into the living room, a small portion of it at least. My usual space is in the garage, but when it's cold...well a man's gota do what a man's gota do. Drives her nuts, but she's used to it after 17 years.

P.S. I tarp off and area in the garage to heat and spray in.

Looking forward to more pics!

I don't have a garage, unfortunately, and I don't want to set up anywhere in the living areas of the house for the safety of my two young kids (modelers work with some noxious stuff). So it's the basement or nuthin. :-(

Aahh, Kids. That would be a good reason. Believe me the living room ain't that good a place anyway. There's always the possibility of a glue or paint spillage. 

Here's a MiG 3 update. I attached the wings. I didn't go as well as I would have assumed it would. It is a three piece attachment. For some reason, Trumpeter has you install small forward wing root parts. Along with the fuselage and wing needing some trimming to get them to match up, the wing root parts add and extra amount of frustration. The result is an area that needs a lot more filling than I would have liked. So here it is, the build so far. After the filler dries I'll do some sanding and move on to the next steps.

That's weird...   when i did the 1/32 version of this kit I had to do the same wing root parts and everything fit pretty good with a minimum of corrective work.

At any rate, it's looking good.

My 1/48, at least, is a mess. The wing root flange on the fuselage halves were about 2 mm too wide on each side. I had to "adjust" the upper wing halves so the fuse would fit into its slot. At first I had thought the office didn't fit into the receiving holes correctly thus making the fuse halves too wide, but it all looked OK.

Oh well, some filling and sanding and I'll be back on track. I am still really pleased with this kit despite the set back, which still may have been my fault.

Bah, sorry about the snafu, but sounds like you'll power through it. And, hey, at least you're building something!

Hi everyone, well I am still undecided on which air force to make my mig as the in box options (iraq and luftwaffe) don't appeal, has anyone got any suggestions? I am going to be starting as soon as I can I know I have said this before, but life is getting in the way a lot lately, also I have had this kit for about five years and want to do it justice as it's a real favourite of mine and I was almost hesitant to make it in case I made a mess lol. Also here's a video of the Mig 21.

I was always partial to the Soviet version.

Dean- go Czech!

Soviet!

Dean, look at google for  some of the African Airforce Mig 21's there are MANY and AM decals are available. I just did a 1/48 MiG 21 MF in Somali AF colors, different yet interesting.

Theuns

Good call Theuns, Dre I had looked at Czech and I wonder if you meant the impossible white, grey and black one lol? Would be an incredible but I doubt I could do that within the year, however there are some good looking Angolan and Mozambican Migs, some nice colours, I can't believe I had overlooked an entire continent! How is everyone else's builds coming along?

DOnt worry about overlooking Africa, we are usually done so untill Ebola or something break out...

Theuns

Dean, actually I was thinking of the Czech standard NMF or the slightly more interesting light grey over white schemes, but that 3-color splinter camo would look great too.   Those two standard schemes would allow one to really muck about in tonal variations and weathering.

All too true about the African schemes- they're great but under-represented in our community.   There were quite a few Mediterranean/Mid East operators of MiG-21s as well that have neat looking camo.

Just for interest sake, if anyone wanted to look at African Migs a google image search gave this - www.google.co.za/search

Most of these planes are really beat up. a big majority of them are grounded and used for spares to keep a few flying.

Also interesting is that they don't always have the same paint scheeme on them, sometimes they are just used as delivered from the eastern block. You might have a camo Mig next to a grey mig.

Here is my Somali AF 21 mf 

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/2/p/162372/1773575.aspx#1773575

Theuns

Nice!! I like that scheme.

I just ordered Linden Hill Millennium Migs part one Single seaters, there's a good few colourful markings, Russian, Romanian, Chinese, and somewhere else. The colours are pretty good and it has the really good Russian green, brown and sand scheme, so I will see, I actually don't have time to begin but I'm itching to start lol. Theuns are you building anything for this GB? Also I didn't ignore the African Air Forces suggestion, I just couldn't see anyone who made them besides Afterburner Decals, and when I went onto their web page I could not seem to find them so I went for Linden Hill which I have used before.

Dean, I will PM you about AM decals for them now.

As for the Somali AF, I simply maskes off a circle, painted white, stuck a star over that and sprayed the blue, removed the star mask and done.

As for the GB here, yes I signed up for a 1/32 Trumpeter MiG 19.

Theuns

Here is my update, I thought I should show some progress.
After I sand the stabilizer seams and install the spinner backing, it will be time to paint the underside light blue believe it or not.
Beside the wing joint (which was probably my fault), this has been a very nice build. I would recommend this kit fro anyone wanting to build a MiG 3

Steve

Are going with green over blue, or white-washed?

White with red wingtips.

That is looking cool! Think I need one in the stach.....

Theuns

My Decals from Linden Hill arrived today, Millennium Migs and for some reason all of the schemes are shown from the left side only and the left wing, no tail wings, no right side view, no top view and obviously no right wing, has anybody else ever had this with Linden Hill?

That is odd for LH decals...   all the sets I've gotten from them include several pages of photos and drawings of the various schemes.

All I can suggest is lots of internet searching for photos of those schemes, sorry.

Hmm well I emailed LH so I'll see what they say, there are some really good Mig 21s in the decal set, though they're the SM, Bis and something else but not MF, so I will look for the differences and see what I can do! Also I ordered the GWH Mig 29 9-12 Early version so that may end up here first. Either way I should be starting soon.

LH literally got back to me within the hour, they said the sheet was produced 15 years ago and that was all of the available info at the time so that's what you get! No big deal though as the internet should provide something, failing that I'll use artistic licence.