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                        FOREIGN AIRFORCE MiG BUILD. (no question mark in this topic)

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                        djmodels1999
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: United Kingdom / Belgium
                        Posted by djmodels1999 on Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:32 PM
                        Duke, you are fast, man! A real factory, you have! Your cockpit looks quite detailed! Have you thought of adding a sligthly dark wash all over to gove it even better definition?

                        The Revell MiG is a real beauty, Duke. You need to get yourself one! I hope my build comes up as nice as you think it will be..! I'm really wanting a bare metal Fishbed (the early Fishbeds do look sooo sleek in natural metal) but I've never been really successful with metallic paints...
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                        Tankmaster7
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                          August 2004
                        • From: Nowhere. (Long Island)
                        Posted by Tankmaster7 on Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:45 PM
                        As for my progress, it's an off white resin cockpit that roughly (and barely) fits into a grey plastic fuselage front. School greatly hinders me here. Hoping for everything to be filed and sanded and ready for painting by monday. That's an optimistic estimate though.
                        -Tanky Welcome to the United States of America, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation, in partnership with Halliburton. Security for your constitutional rights provided by Blackwater International.
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                        osher
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                          April 2003
                        • From: Edgware, London
                        Posted by osher on Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:54 PM
                        Er, well, I think I have worked out a way to attach the cockpit tub to the fuselage, except the fuselage won't fit. The locating pins need, er, re-locating? Duke, your model looks really excellent! Here is my WIP. As you can see, I've not progressed far
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                        osher
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Edgware, London
                        Posted by osher on Thursday, January 20, 2005 7:41 PM
                        Just found a review from Modeling Madness of the kit I'm building, and it seems I'm not alone in wondering how the cockpit fits in, and wondering where the flash stops and model begins! Here is a link to the review: http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/korean/ussr/dorrmig15.htm I also did a seach, and found that Extratech do a PE kit for this kit. Can anyone recommend somewhere in the UK to buy this? Hannants stock Extratech, but not this one. Also, Neomega do the right seats...again, does anyone know where to buy them from? At least the colour I chose for the cockpit is passable!
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                        roadkill_275
                        • Member since
                          September 2003
                        • From: North East Texas
                        Posted by roadkill_275 on Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:41 PM
                        Made up my mind. Put me down for the Revell 1/32 MiG 21 M/MF in Croatian markings.

                        All I've managed to do on the 15 is get some painting done in the cockpit. Looking at the surface of the plastic, I'm wondering if foil is going to work as it's awful grainy and pebbly, plus theres about a billion dimples that are supposed to be rivets although if they were on a real AC they would be about 4 inches across!! Ahwell, it'll be a learning experience for sure.
                        Kevin M. Bodkins "Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup" American By Birth, Southern By the Grace of God! www.milavia.com Christian Modelers For McCain
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                        Duke Maddog
                        • Member since
                          June 2003
                        • From: Rowland Heights, California
                        Posted by Duke Maddog on Friday, January 21, 2005 8:53 AM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by djmodels1999

                        Duke, you are fast, man! A real factory, you have! Your cockpit looks quite detailed! Have you thought of adding a sligthly dark wash all over to gove it even better definition?

                        The Revell MiG is a real beauty, Duke. You need to get yourself one! I hope my build comes up as nice as you think it will be..! I'm really wanting a bare metal Fishbed (the early Fishbeds do look sooo sleek in natural metal) but I've never been really successful with metallic paints...



                        Dark wash to the Cockpit! DOH! I knew I forgot something! Oh well, too late now, everything is all put together.

                        Thanks for the word on that Revell MIG. I'll be on the lookout for it once I gain employment again.
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                        Duke Maddog
                        • Member since
                          June 2003
                        • From: Rowland Heights, California
                        Posted by Duke Maddog on Friday, January 21, 2005 8:57 AM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by osher

                        Er, well, I think I have worked out a way to attach the cockpit tub to the fuselage, except the fuselage won't fit. The locating pins need, er, re-locating? Duke, your model looks really excellent! Here is my WIP. As you can see, I've not progressed far


                        Thanks for the compliment osher. Man, I see what you mean about this model you chose to build! You are a braver man than I Gunga Din! I do hope that you can get the extra aftermarket parts. It looks quite painful t try to build something like this. You are doing well for the poor quality of the kit! Soldier on my friend!
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                        osher
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                          April 2003
                        • From: Edgware, London
                        Posted by osher on Friday, January 21, 2005 10:51 AM
                        Actually, not so much brave as naive! I've seen other Kopro (KP) stuff, and it looked nice. I wish I had looked up Modeling Madness first, but there I was, in Hannants, looking for a decal sheet for my Revell Mig-21, and there in the new arrivals shelf were these two (yep, I have also a Mig-17) piles of new Kopro Mig kits in a Vietnamese special edition. Oh! Thinks I, cheaper than a decal sheet, smaller than a 1/32 Mig-21, and Kopro are generally good, plus Vietnam War, from the side of North Vietnam sounded interesting.
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                        waikong
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: NYC, USA
                        Posted by waikong on Friday, January 21, 2005 3:48 PM
                        Here's what I got so far for my combined Acrobatic team/Foreign Mig build. This is the cockpit of the J7 (Chinese modiified Mig21)...




                        I've gotten as far as gluing all the main assemblies and masking/painting the 2 tone blue/white scheme, but after stripping most of the masking off, realized the blue is way too dark. So after putting the thing down in disgust for a week, I remasked and is about to repaint the blue this weekend. Will send an updated pictures soon.

                        I started a full build review, if you are interested and would like to see more pictures, please follow this link http://waihobbies.wkhc.net/f7eb.html

                        Your comments/critiques are welcomed. Thanks.

                        My website: http://waihobbies.wkhc.net

                         

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                        Tankmaster7
                        • Member since
                          August 2004
                        • From: Nowhere. (Long Island)
                        Posted by Tankmaster7 on Friday, January 21, 2005 4:12 PM
                        Still sanding. Not much to post pics up of yet. But still a long while to go for the build to end. hehe.
                        -Tanky Welcome to the United States of America, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation, in partnership with Halliburton. Security for your constitutional rights provided by Blackwater International.
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                        Duke Maddog
                        • Member since
                          June 2003
                        • From: Rowland Heights, California
                        Posted by Duke Maddog on Saturday, January 22, 2005 10:42 AM
                        Nice work waikong! Do the needles move in those dials? Big Smile [:D]Wink [;)]

                        That is a great looking cockpit. Keep up the good work.

                        Osher, probably would have done the same thing. Still, there is nothing like reading a review before getting a new kit. My reference to your bravery was because you actually started that kit with the intention of completing it! Big Smile [:D]Thumbs Up [tup] Way to go!

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                        osher
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Edgware, London
                        Posted by osher on Saturday, January 22, 2005 3:14 PM
                        Thanks Duke! Actually, I might have read the review, and still bought the kit (it was £4, around $7.50) so not too much. In the model shop though, they had the new Revell MiG kit, which is being wowed over. I was so tempted to buy that, and abandon the Kopro, but now I'm determined to finish it, just because the challange is there, and I don't want to think that a small thing like parts that don't fit will stop me
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                        Tankmaster7
                        • Member since
                          August 2004
                        • From: Nowhere. (Long Island)
                        Posted by Tankmaster7 on Saturday, January 22, 2005 3:18 PM
                        that's the spirit. did i mention I have persevered over my resin cockpit?
                        -Tanky Welcome to the United States of America, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation, in partnership with Halliburton. Security for your constitutional rights provided by Blackwater International.
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                        osher
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Edgware, London
                        Posted by osher on Saturday, January 22, 2005 5:34 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by Tankmaster7

                        that's the spirit. did i mention I have persevered over my resin cockpit?


                        You did! Good luck with it, and show us pictures soon...
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                        Mikeym_us
                        • Member since
                          March 2004
                        • From: Kincheloe Michigan
                        Posted by Mikeym_us on Saturday, January 22, 2005 5:57 PM
                        yeah and I'm doing a Mig-21PF for the NVAF with the Eduard ZOOM detail set for the Mig-21PF

                        On the workbench: Dragon 1/350 scale Ticonderoga class USS BunkerHill 1/720 scale Italeri USS Harry S. Truman 1/72 scale Encore Yak-6

                        The 71st Tactical Fighter Squadron the only Squadron to get an Air to Air kill and an Air to Ground kill in the same week with only a F-15 http://photobucket.com/albums/v332/Mikeym_us/

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                        Duke Maddog
                        • Member since
                          June 2003
                        • From: Rowland Heights, California
                        Posted by Duke Maddog on Sunday, January 23, 2005 12:35 PM
                        Excellent! That's the spirit Osher! I can't wait to see the finished kit! I know you'll do it right. Cool [8D]Thumbs Up [tup]

                        Good job Tankmaster; well done in perserverance over that cockpit! Now, like Osher said, show and tell! After all, a Picture's worth a thousand words! Mischief [:-,]Laugh [(-D]
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                        Tankmaster7
                        • Member since
                          August 2004
                        • From: Nowhere. (Long Island)
                        Posted by Tankmaster7 on Sunday, January 23, 2005 2:30 PM
                        OK, OK. Bowing down to pressure (lol) you guys are getting pictures today. don't expect to see much progress though.
                        -Tanky Welcome to the United States of America, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation, in partnership with Halliburton. Security for your constitutional rights provided by Blackwater International.
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                        Tankmaster7
                        • Member since
                          August 2004
                        • From: Nowhere. (Long Island)
                        Posted by Tankmaster7 on Sunday, January 23, 2005 3:58 PM








                        That's the Aires resin and PE cockpit set roughly fitted inside the Academy 1/48 MiG-29. What do you guys think so far? Lots of filling and sanding needed still though.
                        -Tanky Welcome to the United States of America, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation, in partnership with Halliburton. Security for your constitutional rights provided by Blackwater International.
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                        waikong
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: NYC, USA
                        Posted by waikong on Monday, January 24, 2005 9:47 AM
                        Looking good Tankmaster! Man, looks like a lot of plastic had to go to make that thing fit.

                        My website: http://waihobbies.wkhc.net

                         

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                        Duke Maddog
                        • Member since
                          June 2003
                        • From: Rowland Heights, California
                        Posted by Duke Maddog on Monday, January 24, 2005 2:29 PM
                        Well worth the wait Tankmaster! Great job on that seat. This is getting good!
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                        djmodels1999
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                          December 2002
                        • From: United Kingdom / Belgium
                        Posted by djmodels1999 on Monday, January 24, 2005 3:13 PM
                        Nice bit of resin!
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                        Tankmaster7
                        • Member since
                          August 2004
                        • From: Nowhere. (Long Island)
                        Posted by Tankmaster7 on Monday, January 24, 2005 4:56 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by waikong

                        Looking good Tankmaster! Man, looks like a lot of plastic had to go to make that thing fit.



                        You can't even begin to comprehend how much plastic had to go...Black Eye [B)] thanks for the comments guys. I think it was worth the effort.
                        -Tanky Welcome to the United States of America, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation, in partnership with Halliburton. Security for your constitutional rights provided by Blackwater International.
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                        osher
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Edgware, London
                        Posted by osher on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:00 AM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by waikongYou can't even begin to comprehend how much plastic had to go...Black Eye [B)] thanks for the comments guys. I think it was worth the effort.
                        Well, it looks fantastic! Worth the effort!
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                        Tankmaster7
                        • Member since
                          August 2004
                        • From: Nowhere. (Long Island)
                        Posted by Tankmaster7 on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:57 PM
                        this thread has been rather quiet for a while... so I'll talk to myself. So, what's up Tanky?
                        -Tanky Welcome to the United States of America, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation, in partnership with Halliburton. Security for your constitutional rights provided by Blackwater International.
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                        Swedish Mick
                        • Member since
                          January 2005
                        • From: Kopparberg, Sweden
                        Posted by Swedish Mick on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 5:41 PM
                        Nice work Tankmaster!

                        I better give some update regarding my own build then:
                        Have been working on my MiG-15. The pilot soon ready to be fitted inside the fuselage. Nothing extra in the cockpit, just OOB (even if it's a very simple seat etc). Oh, a weight fitted inside the nose, of course.
                        Wings and other parts sanded, wheels painted, and next is the fuselage to be glued together and wings to be attached.
                        I have no digital camera, but I will see what I can do regarding pics.
                        Modellbygge iFokus http://www.modellbygge.ifokus.se
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                        waikong
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                          December 2002
                        • From: NYC, USA
                        Posted by waikong on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:06 PM
                        Thanks for your remarks Duke, its the first time I've done such extensive work on a panel so I'm rather happy with it.

                        Here's an update to my combined Aerobatic Team/Foreign Mig GB of the Chinese F7 (Modified Mig21). Closed up the cockpit, scratched built the armor glass, lots of filler and sanding, followed by a primer, a white coat, masking, and the 3 tone color scheme completed. Next up will be the gloss coat, a wash, and decals - including a few home made ones.






                        Updated writeup with more pics at [img]http://waihobbies.wkhc.net/f7eb.html


                        My website: http://waihobbies.wkhc.net

                         

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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 27, 2005 6:49 AM
                        Great job, Waikong! Looking forward to seeing it decaled up! - Calvin
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                        Duke Maddog
                        • Member since
                          June 2003
                        • From: Rowland Heights, California
                        Posted by Duke Maddog on Thursday, January 27, 2005 10:35 AM
                        Awesome work Waikong! That paint scheme is gonna look great!

                        I got the landing gear on both my models, and applied the canopies to them as well. I'm glad I had a second MiG 23, since I lost the clear parts to the one I'm building.I also applied the basecoat to my MiG 23. I'm going to camouflage it like my German MiG 29. I'll get pics up later when I can.
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                        waikong
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                          December 2002
                        • From: NYC, USA
                        Posted by waikong on Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:28 AM
                        Duke, can't wait to see the pics. Interesting you mention putting on the landing gear first before painting. I always paint before putting on the gear, in fear of breaking them, and I usually have to do some touch ups in the wells. Any insight on your preferred method?

                        My website: http://waihobbies.wkhc.net

                         

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                        Tankmaster7
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                          August 2004
                        • From: Nowhere. (Long Island)
                        Posted by Tankmaster7 on Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:56 PM
                        no fair!! you guys are going to be done before I even get the paint on mine!!
                        -Tanky Welcome to the United States of America, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation, in partnership with Halliburton. Security for your constitutional rights provided by Blackwater International.
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