Phantom2 Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 (edited) Hi all! This kit is a really old one, I started it more then 10 years ago, built about 10% (cockpit & engine) and then I lost interest and It´s been floating around since then. So I´ll give it a go now! Cheers! Stefan Edited August 31, 2020 by Phantom2 BradG, Kagemusha, LSP_Kevin and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Oh going to follow this one. I just got one of these kits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted September 5, 2020 Author Share Posted September 5, 2020 (edited) Hi All! I found this kit dirt cheap many moons ago, I couldn´t resist the crazy scheme and started it right away. But the build stalled after the nose gear bay and cockpit, don´t know why, really. The Czech Stress-Team was a unit for combat training, very much like the US Top Gun unit and have a similar job, training units in combat and tactics. I don´t know if they are still active, anybody here knows? Who can resist this grin? This is a really early Trumpeter kit and it shows, well molded and quite detailed injected parts, a small and crappy instruction sheet and useless decals. Later I found out that this is a up-scaled copy of Academy´s MiG-21UM/MF, Academy´s kit is a good one so let´s hope this will be good too. I started the build by building the nose gear bay, complete with the nose gear leg (metal!) in place. The nose gear leg is screwed in place, Tamiya-style. I will not have the engine on show so I closed up the fuselage and glued the two sections together. Wings, wheel wells, seats and cockpit fell together quick and easy. The two fuselage halves filled…. The engine is quite nice, but I´ll paint only what will be seen. Nice detail; The engine done…. More to come soon! Stefan Edited September 14, 2020 by Phantom2 Kagemusha, johncrow, mozart and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 IIRC this kit was a sales thud years ago. Mine was very cheep and later I found some dolphin scheme decals. I have seen at least one delightful build at an IPMS national convention. Two reasons not to sell it off for now. I will be following along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Good start! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 (edited) Thanks to all responders! Time for the next episode in my MiG-21 Story…. The engine is built up and I have painted the fan with Alclad Aluminium… The landing gear wells glued to the fuselage…. The nose gear done, just some hydraulic lines and paint left to do later…. The wheel wells painted and washed…. There´s not very much aftermarket stuff for this kit but I found some really nice resin seats from Pavla. A detail kit from Verlinden…. More to come soon…. Stefan Edited September 8, 2020 by Phantom2 BradG, Alain Gadbois, daveculp and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradG Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 Nice one, make sure you test fit the verlinden resin, I don't think I've ever found a Verlinden resin that's actually fit where intended. Kais 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 Humm interesting ill look into those i think its probably the only AM i want on mine (an maybe a pitot tube) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confusionreigns178 Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 Hi, Stefan. I have a couple of these waiting for me, so I will follow your build with a lot of interest. I didn't know that the kit-design was "borrowed" from the Academy 1/48th scale version. Makes me wonder what other kits Chinese manufacturers have based their designs on. Cheers. Chris. PS: Just so you know, the aircraft was flown by the Czech air-force, not the Russians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted September 14, 2020 Author Share Posted September 14, 2020 (edited) On 9/11/2020 at 7:46 PM, Confusionreigns178 said: PS: Just so you know, the aircraft was flown by the Czech air-force, not the Russians. Hi Chris! Yeah, I know (I SHOULD have known) , I wrote it wrong, don´t know what I was thinking. ...but after all It´s much easier to spell "Russian" instead of "Czezh"! Thanks for the heads up mate, I have corrected it! Stefan Edited September 14, 2020 by Phantom2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confusionreigns178 Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 My pleasure, Stefan. I wish you good luck in building the MIG. She might not be perfect, but the one example I've seen in this scheme looked really cool. I love anything in a special scheme. Cheers. Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted October 26, 2020 Author Share Posted October 26, 2020 (edited) Hi All! Seats and the shelf with all the instruments primed with Alclad Black Microfiller Primer; …and then painted with this crazy MiG interior color (WEM Soviet MiG Cockpit color); The cockpit tub partly assembled, painted and washed with a mix of lamp black/umbra and white spirit. Panels and instrument panels attached and some detail painting have begun… A dry fit with the primed seats…. The engine glued to the right fuselage half…. More to come soon! Stefan Edited October 26, 2020 by Phantom2 Daniel Leduc, mozart, BradG and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Good to see more progress Stefan, agreed about the weird Russian cockpit colour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Add a bit more blue to that interior color and you would get a nuclear fuel rod storage color. I sort of wondered about the positive attributes of that cockpit color. But busy busy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 (edited) Hi All! The wheel wells repainted in a nice, bright red color )Hu.19); I primed the metal nose cone with Alclad Black Microfiller and then I painted it Wood Tan (Hu.110) Some of the instruments were missing so I used some from an old Mike Grant sheet; Much to choose from, but I tried to follow my references as far as I could; I painted the instruments gloss black (Hu.21) and then i placed the individual decals with micro-set and -sol, then I topped it off with some gloss varnish; Front cockpit; Rear cockpit; As You can see, I have done some detail painting with red, black and white knobs and handles. The sight was painted silver (Hu.11) and then clear orange (Hu.1321),,,, More to come soon! Stefan Edited November 23, 2020 by Phantom2 Kagemusha, Chris Wimmer, Rockie Yarwood and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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