This is
my latest MiG-21 creation in the quarter-scale. Again an excellent Eduard kit (n°
8237) from the Czech Republic. It's a fairly new kit, released in 2013. As
always with the Eduard ProfiPack-line you have a lot of choices to finish your
model. There are five options: a Vietnamese, a Czechoslovak, a Soviet, an
Egyptian and a Polish. I choose the Soviet MiG because of it's interesting
colors. There are a lot of reviews of the Eduard's MiG-21 kits on the net if
your interested to build one, I can only recommend them strongly.
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So, some
history about the real plane. Eduard doesn't provide much information.
They say it is a MiG-21PFM of the Barnaul Higher Air Force School with
airbases in Kamen na Obi and Slavgorod. The year is ca. 1988.
At first I
didn't find much more on the internet until I googled in Russian. Then a
lot of information turned up. Logically, but not for a non-Russian
speaker.
It seems
that the Barnaul Higher Air
Force School had three airbases: Slavgorod, Kalmanka and Kamen na Obi, all
near Barnaul in the Siberian Military District of the VVS. These bases had
different aircraft types: L-29, L-39 and MiG-21, before that the Yak-28.
The Kamen na Obi base flew with the MiG's. So that's were my MiG belongs
to, more specific the 96th training regiment. At the moment the base is no
longer active. Looking at the website of
the Barnaul Higher Air Force School, I even found a picture of the
actual plane n° 105, you can find it here.
About
the buildup. As usual it starts wit h the cockpit, then the engine exhaust,
wheelbays. Then you must join the fuselage halves, then put on the spine
and wings. Then normally the wheels, I however do that last. Painting
first is easier I think. I used Tamiya XF18 middle blue for the underside,
XF59 desert yellow, XF10 brown and XF26 deep green for the camouflage. The
metals are painted with Vallejo Model Air. Oh and I first pre-shaded the
panellines.
After
painting, it got a cote of Humbrol Gloss. Then
it was time for the decals.
They were set with Mircoscale Micro Sol. Then I sprayed the panellines and
decals with Tamiya X19 smoke. After a final wash with Promodellers Black
and Dirt I gave it a matt cote with Vallejo matt varnish.
The missiles
are RS-2US (A A-1 Alkali), I don't know if they were used in real life with
this particular plane. The figure in one of the pictures is Svetlana, a
SU-122 tank crew member in scale 1/35, just for fun.
I
hope you liked reading this. Onwards to the next one, the Eduard MiG-21R,
just released.
Ronald Beelen
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