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Marius
Good luck Andy!
The Algerian is interesting, but in case you need more inspiration, there were a couple of metallic Egyptian ones with colorful tails and interesting unit markings.
This decal sheet here is particularly well documented:
MiG-17 Around The World - As.. I (ModelMaker D72155, 1:72)

And preview pictures of the instructions can be found here:
super-hobby.de/produ..27.html?partner_id=9

And btw, I am not sure if this is of interest to you, but the seat from the Airfix kit is wrong. It's a weird representation of a KK-1 seat which the MiG-17 never had in the series production. You would need a KK-2 seat, which is offered by Pavla or Amigo Models, but it's very very difficult to find anywhere.

Andy Ball
Thanks Marius, the decals aren't in the best of registers either.I wanted to do aluminium to again test my skills in this medium. I'd heard about the seat issues, and with the one supplied. Perhaps I'll check the differences to see if there's a wprk-around?, do you know of any?

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat, of course! 😉 (in the near future I intend to mash up the Kovozavody and the Airfix kits in order to build the proper Polish "Last of the LiM's")

Cuajete
I can't miss this! 👍

Andy Ball
Robert, can't you do it through the Airfix with some aftermarkets? I've pretty much assembled it today/yesterday- the fit is pretty good. Not sure if it was me or the kit, but some attention to filling around the nose is all so far….

Andy Ball
Hey hey Cuajete amigo! Glad to have you along !!

Robert Podkoński
It is simply because I have had Kovozavody kit in my stash 😉 - the decals are better (the ones included in Airfix kit are not wholly adequate...), yet Airfix is much more modeller-friendly, as you've proven this above 🙂

Cuajete
Well done so far, Andy! 👍

Andy Ball
@Robert- good to know, and hope we'll see it soon.
@Cuajete- more done tonight on account of your encouragement!
Thanks Slavo!!
It could be a quick build?

Bernd Grün
Interesting topic, Andy. follow with interest. 👍

Andy Ball
Thank-you Bernd, still in a quandary over what to decal it.

Bernd Grün
In my opnion Cambodian would be the favorite. 😉

Cuajete
I agree with Bernd. I also prefer the Cambodian one for the red ray, although the Algerian would also look very good in Andy's master hands. That snake and the grey-upper over aluminium could be very nice 👍

Waiting for the next progress.

Bernhard Pethe
Ich schaue da mal mit zu.
Die R-3S an der MiG-17 finde ich interessant. Kannte ich bis jetzt nicht. Sicher eine koreanische "Erfindung" .

Andy Ball
Thanks Sukhoi242 and the others for having a look.
Gentlemen- I love the suggestions for decals, but on inspection the Cambodian ones are off register, the N Korean and Algerian are about the best to use on a '17F….watch this space!
Thanks @Cortex!

Andy Ball
I won't be making any Korean sidewinder "look-a-likes", Bernhard, the Dear Leader wouldn't assist with the blueprints

Andy Ball
Thanks Rui and Patryk S, hope to provide some entertainment!

Ekki
Watching too.

Andy Ball
Hey Ekki, cheers!!

Andy Ball
Mirko, thanks. I'll post some "short finals" soon.

Andy Ball
Thanks Helio and everyone else….I'm pretty much done with this. Overall a quick and relatively painless build.

Cuajete
Looks great, Andy! 👍

Andy Ball
Thank-you Cuajete, I'm saying 'done' and will reflect on whether to weather it!

Maciej Bellos
Should you weather it, "Dear Leader" will probably have some "words" with you...
Lovely result Andy!

Robert Podkoński
That NMF looks great, Andy! (but Soviet-build planes never looked shiny, as they were covered with some 'protective' transparent lacquer, to the best of my knowledge. Here you can see few museum examples: Polish Air Force Museum - Dęblin | Album by podkon - it's up to you, whether to tone down the shine or not. Personally, I would leave the NMF as it is now 😉 )

Bernd Grün
Nice finish of your 'Fresco'. I like it. Cheers, Andy! 👌

Andy Ball
Thanks Ogre-Trombone!
In glorious utopian make-kingdom of Socialist Republic I will leave as is for now. The dear leader may have expected the guns to have fired at the fascist whores south of his border, so perhaps a little gun smoke, Marciej?
@Robert: I love the fact the Polish would not polish their MiGs…get it?…@ Bernd, vielen danke mein Freund!

Robert Podkoński
LOL! 😄

Marius
Andy, that's actually a really good looking MiG-17! Congratulations on the very good looking model! I don't remember seeing a North Korean one too often.

For the sake of the discussiom, I'll also add a short comment regarding the shininess: Robert is right that they were covered from the factory (together with all MiG-15s, and early MiG-21s) with a varnish coat mixed with a metallic pouder (5%-10%). The result varied depending on the factory. Nevertheless, I am not convinced that the museum pieces from Robert's link are that representative though, since some are repainted in actual silver while those which weren't are of course afected by the age (Aluminium turns really matt after some decades).

Overall, if we're looking at photographs from the 50s-60s, there were several skin panels which were somewhat shiny, but many rather semi-matt.
One fast example:
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But if I were you, I wouldn't change anything anymore, you model looks very good the way it is and taking photographs of models in NMF is in itself a bit tricky sometimes due ot lightning, at least in my case.

Andy Ball
Thanks Cuajete!!, and Marius - do you think a coat of semi-gloss may help tone it down, or matt even?

Guy Rump
Missed this, very nice indeed. 👍

Andy Ball
Thanks Arif and &Guy, you caught us in the end!, cheers.

Andy Ball
Thanks/Merci Curatorm

Andy Ball
Patryk S: both myself and the Respected Comrade General Secretary thank-you for your like.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Andy Ball
Thanks Peter and Villiers- (I will let Kim know)

Andy Ball
Pierre: merci aussi! Et M. Kim envoie ses salutations.

Ekki
Very good work!

Andy Ball
Ekki: you're too kind!, however, thank-you

Łukasz Gliński
We definitely deserve more pics from the Dearest Leader's inspection 👍

Andy Ball
Due to the Imperial Fascists blockade of SD card technologies- we may need to wait….
Thanks Connor for the look

Andy Ball
Thank-you Felix and others in your appreciation!

Micky
Nice plane Andy! Great work!

Vittorio Gentili
Very nice!

Nicolas M.
Thank you Vittorio, this is a nice model, but really small.

Alec K
Turned out superb 👍

gorby
Nice work.

Mojo DeVirus
Hey, where did you get this baby? Point me to the right direction please. =)

Pierre Delattre
Hi
You can buy stl file here : cults3d.com/fr/mod%C..urret-w-gun-2x7-62mm

Mojo DeVirus
Thank you.

Dave Flitton
Nice. I just earmarked that file for the future.

Michael Kohl
Promising start.

Mr D
Looking good 👍 nice project 👍

Xinnan Zhao
Thanks Kohl and Mr D😄

Tom B.
Nice one 👍 The obiquitous yet often underestimated logistic and support vessels gettin their spotlight in modelling is really nice. All those details for the piping etc. should really be interesting!

Dave Flitton
Looking good. What PE set are you using?

Nicolas
Following with great interesst.

Cuajete
Me 2

Alex K
Me 2. (ok - me 3).

Kesa Tiho
Me 2 (ok me 3 (alright.. me 4))

Ben M
👀

Łukasz Gliński
Me 6

John-Alan Pascoe
Great to have so many people along!

Alec K
One more 🙂

Alec K
Nice progress. I heard this kit was rough, nice to see you tackling it successfully 👍

Zbynek Honzik
Fingers crossed with this project. Looks like you've dealt with all the pitfalls of this kit successfully so far. 👍
I look forward to seeing new photos of your progress.

Robert Podkoński
A little late, but taking a seat too!

Cuajete
Well done so far 👍

Dave Flitton
wow