The initial thought
was to model an aerial combat scene and use the MiG as the casualty of an F/A-18
in some fictional battle. I was planning on recreating some missile
damage, but as I opened the box of the Hasegawa kit, I realized I couldn't bring
myself to wreck ing
the kit. Never a huge fan of soviet aircraft, the 29 just
had a beautiful simple shape that I couldn't resist admiring.
The kit is great out
of the box. The cockpit could use some additional detail, but I usually
close up the canopy, so not much can be seen. The pilot figure does come
with the sunshield up on his helmet, and his O2 mask off. I used
epoxy putty to alter this. I had heard that Hasegawa panel lines sometimes
aren't deep enough, and though they looked fine, I did some light re-scribing.
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I had already
purchased Cuban markings off of e-bay, so I went ahead and used these. I
don't remember the manufacturer. There weren't many pictures of the Cuban variant
out there, but the few that I found seem to show it with the standard soviet
camo. Testors bottles the colors "fulcrum gray" and
"fulcrum gray green". So I airbrushed out of the bottle.
The gray looked good, but the gray green was too light and too green. So
mixed in a couple of drops of gunship, until I had a color that looked
right.
I like to display my
kits in their natural habitat, so on an acrylic stick it went.
I bow down to most
ARCers and their modeling skills. I'm completely amatuer, and model to
relax and clear my mind. I humbly submit my MiG for thei r
approval.
Paul
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