FlorinM 650 Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 (edited) I must confess: the subject of this thread is not built by me but by a close friend, Mr. Lucian Millo who sadly does not speak English. It is the Trumpeter MiG 32 ML with its many blatant flaws corrected. You will see a master at work, with resin from Aires - cockpit plus gear bays and the intake splitter plates from Zactomodels, very few PE parts from the Eduard exterior set and lots of scratch building! Edited June 23, 2014 by FlorinM GDW and MARU5137 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Iain 12,682 Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Me too - might prod me to crack on with mine! Iain Link to post Share on other sites
DrDave 1,786 Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Bun venit la bord! Link to post Share on other sites
FlorinM 650 Posted June 18, 2014 Author Share Posted June 18, 2014 To business then! The shape and length of the nose are wrong, as confirmed by placing the parts over 1:32 line drawings (the red lines represent the outline of the kit parts) Shortening the piece would still produce a nose that would be too sharp. And Lucian had an epiphany! MARU5137 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Eli Raphael 881 Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Strange that Chris (Zactoman) didn't see this error., if there is one. Link to post Share on other sites
FlorinM 650 Posted June 18, 2014 Author Share Posted June 18, 2014 (edited) Wish this were the only Boo-boo, but you ain't seen nothing yet! This is a Trumpeter kit after all... Edited June 18, 2014 by FlorinM MARU5137 1 Link to post Share on other sites
FlorinM 650 Posted June 19, 2014 Author Share Posted June 19, 2014 The nose profile being too sharp, it had to be replaced. Lucian looked for an alternative and found it in another Trumpeter kit. Funny thing is that nose has a wrong profile for the aircraft it came with. It is the MiG 29 nose cone! To the left you can see the original MiG 23 cone, shortened and the MiG 29 one dry fit to the fuselage front half. It looks so much better! MARU5137 and GDW 2 Link to post Share on other sites
blackbetty 4,500 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 very interesting, what drawings are you using? MARU5137 1 Link to post Share on other sites
FlorinM 650 Posted June 20, 2014 Author Share Posted June 20, 2014 Drawings scaled-up to 1:32nd from a russian book "MiG 32 ML P MLD" by S. Burdin, published in Minsk, 1994, Pages 21- 28. Also of great help were "MiG-23 fighter variants MF,ML", bilingual Czech/English, from 4+ publications and "MiG-23/27 Flogger. Soviet Swing-Wing Fighter/Strike Arcraft", by Yefim Gordon and Keith Dexter, published by Aerofax. MARU5137 1 Link to post Share on other sites
FlorinM 650 Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 A weekend's worth of work, the resin KM-1 ejection seat looks nice. Whitey, MARU5137, Mal_Belford and 1 other 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Loic 1,927 Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Looks good! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Peterpools Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 WOW, the ejection seat is a knockout! Keep 'em coming Peter Link to post Share on other sites
FlorinM 650 Posted June 24, 2014 Author Share Posted June 24, 2014 Thanks, will do! Link to post Share on other sites
FlorinM 650 Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 Cockpit all done, ready to be installed in the front half of the fuselage: Mal_Belford, SwissPokerAce, GDW and 4 others 7 Link to post Share on other sites
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