Attention Comardes! Official Pride of Mikoyan-Gurevich GB Launches....

Nice. I wouldn't mind building a 1/32 21.

Still trying to decide, though! I've got a couple of Eduard's 21s, the Trumpeter 1/32 MiG-19, and the Kitty Hawk MiG-25.

I've heard only good things, but I will be buying decals for the kit, not because of quality but choice, I want an old Soviet or at least Eastern European Mig. What are you building?

Thanks! Added you to the roster. :-)

What's the word on the street on the Trumpeter kit? I wouldn't mind building a 1/32 21......

The Trumpeter kit, the 1/32 Mig 21MF

Awesome, Dean! Would be glad to have you aboard. Which 21 kit?

Wow that cockpit looks fantastic! I will be joining in this GB, I was going to wait until next year but I may start sooner with the 21, Dre in your 1/32 Mig 21 did you need noseweight? I'm telling you now the Mig 29 needs noseweight plenty, I forgot to put some in and ended up feeding tiny pieces of wire through the end until there was enough weight (not something you want to have to do lol)

Oh, just wait until you see the big fuselage seams that I'll have to work out.... yeck.

Re: nacelles join....flashbacks to my Eduard Flanker! Looking good, Dre.

Thanks for looking at the cockpit, guys.   Added decals and some spot paints to the missiles last night and finished adding .010" plastic strips to the launch rails and filled in the mounting holes for the outermost wing stations as this MiG will only carry 6 wing rails, not 8.

Also worked on the honking big seam/step in the engine nacelles...  lots of putty used here to raise the interior by about a 1mm.

Thankfully, I'll be adding the massive fuel tank to this area so I don't have to be too precise in cleaning up the mess in between the nacelles but the outer surfaces and undersides will get a wet sanding and polishing treatment or two.

Lots of piddling little work as I procrastinate closing up the fuselage and attaching the wings..

Sorry dude. don't know what happened to the patch. Here it is again.

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Yeah, I was about to ask about the patch. I'll use #2. Thanks!

Ok, added to the intro post. Steve, note that I linked the photo directly to your Photobucket account, so we might go over your account viewing limit?

Holy cats Dre, did you use a shrink ray on a actual 29 cockpit? that looks......real.

I've ordered the Trumpeter 1/48 Soviet MiG-3 Late Version Fighter. I should be getting in in about a week.

PB,

did you want to go with the patch you liked, #2?

Crikey, Dre, that's great work. Wish my cockpits came out that good.

Dre, it looks like one could climb right in and strap down.  That's some very nice work dude!  Very impressive indeed.  I've been thinking about my MiG-27 plans lately; can't decide whether to spring for some "dress up" stuff from Eduard or not.  I might try to scratch something together instead.  Decisions, decisions.  Meanwhile my Skyray and Intruder taunt me from their half-finished state!!    Where can I get some more time, and motivation?!?!

Gary

Well... after a long weekend of squinting at a tiny brush I'm happy to say the cockpit painting and weathering is finished and it is installed in this MiG-29!

man, that's a tight work space!

and as was promised, it took a goodly amount of MilliPut to anchor this large resin tub to the top fuselage shell as there is nothing to correctly locate the aftermarket tub to the plastic.

and how it looks with the front HUD cowling just fitted into place- I still need to add the HUD screen and glue this down.

I many use my Academy missiles as the quality of the Eduard is extremely high.

Welcome, Matt! Glad to have you.

Will add your MiG-29.

Put me down with Revell's 1/48 Mig-29 with Eduard's AA-10's

Yeah, I like 2 better as well.

I vote for #2.....

Thanks for working up a badge!

Ok guys, pick one,

Can do, I'll have a cropped one up today, and maybe a different angle ad well to choose from.

I wouldn't object to the patch as is, but I do have a suggestion. I think there is a bit too much "empty space" at the bottom. Maybe make the plane look bigger by cropping/zooming, or just crop out most of the empty space. This is just a suggestion, though. Feel free to ignore it; I won't be offended!

Yeah, looks good as-is, unless anyone has any objections?

Looks good, Modelcrazy.

Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a web graphics designer.

I'll need to put in several hours of reading and experimenting to understand my new picture software.

Did you want to go with it and put it on the front page, or want me to keep working on it?

"Dammit, Jim...."

No worries about the logo, the patch still looks great. Thanks for putting it together.

Ok PB,

What do you think of this for a patch?

I tried all night to get the MiG logo on the patch but I'm an electronics technician, not a graphic designer. I figured the logo was on the tail anyway so that would be good enough.

I spent some serious time this weekend doing tedious detailing in the cockpit, launch rails, and landing gear legs.

First, I started late Friday night to detail paint in the cockpit tub and side walls but made no real progress as my mind was full of good ideas for other areas...

then on Saturday I started cutting very thin strips (slightly less than 1mm wide) of .010 sheet plastic to dress up the launch rails that will remain empty.   I may go back and add these strips to all the other rails as well.  You can see the fixed rails on the left and unfixed on the right- with the mounting lumps that fit into divots on the missiles.

Early Sunday morning saw me painting the small missiles white and the landing gear legs light grey...I'll use some large missiles left over from a Su-27 build to cut down on time wasted.

That's pretty much all I got done on Saturday and Sunday as there was a lot of TV sports to be watched!

Monday I was off of work so I began to detail the landing gear legs using some reference pics I found online and some plain old imagination.

I used .010" unpainted lead wire to make the static hydraulic tubes and .025" lead wire (painted flat black) to make the flexible rubber tubing that are seen in the areas of movement on the real aircraft.    Self adhesive lead foil cut into very fine strips was used as the retaining straps...    I also had to make the connectors out of 1/16" plastic rod that was drilled out to make it into tubing as I didn't have any plastic or brass tubing of that size.

and here's the products I used on the gear legs- lead wire of .010" and .025" for the hydraulic lines, anodized blue copper .010" wire for the light wiring, self-adhesive lead foil for the straps and something called "Mirage Eyes" for the landing light on the nose gear.   I've only seen this product once at a local HobbyTown USA and I bought both placards at that time.   I've never seen it since, but it might be found in a craft store.   It's a pretty neat thing- clear lens with an iridescent backing that have a black spot in the center- they look very much like some high discharge lights I've seen on other aircraft.

and...  that's all for now!