Uutisvirta

Ekki
Watching.

Mr D
Like a Mig 21 👍👍
The extra work looks good.
What were the holes you had to fill ??

Ben M
Nice communist tube

Villiers de Vos
Booking my seat.

Guy Rump
Following. 👍

S M
Welcome, mates! @Mr D Those holes I opened and then filled are auxiliary air doors that seems to be open always when the plane is on the ground.

Robert Podkoński
Good job so far, S M! Keep it up!

DerMattes
Looking good, following 👍

Mr D
Coming along nicely now , Nice decals set..👍👍
How do you find the KP plastic??
Keep up good work...nice subject 👌

S M
Thanks! 😄 I think the plastic is pretty nice. Not too soft and not too hard, but maybe closer to hard. The kit itself is challenging. Seemingly pretty detailet parts with rivets and all, but the fitting is bad. I have already lost some rivets due smoothing seams and filling gaps.

Dave Flitton
Looking good!

Mr D
Coming along nicely 👍👍
Like the blue-tak to place canopy.....l do same n remove once dry... works well.
Good luck on next steps 👌👍👍

Nicolas
Missed this one so far. Great start. 👍

S M
Thanks, mates! The blue-tack is extremely valuable tool for its versatility.

S M
Major bottleneck cleared by successfully painting the lynx in the rudder.

J35J
Joining late, good progress!👍🏻

Mr D
The stencil worked out well, l like your cutting tool....looks more accurate than a standard scalpel.
a fiddly job sorted now 👍

Villiers de Vos
Fantastic work so far. Especially the custom paint work.

Duster_d
Perfect!

S M
I'm trying to get this ready before Saturday, but landing gears and probes are under construction. I caused a little disaster by accidentally drilling through the wing...

Robert Podkoński
Looks great already. Keep it up!

S M
Mates! I declare my MiG ready!

Guy Rump
Very impressive, congrats! 👍

J35J
Great work S M! Congrats 👍🏻

Nicolas
Congrats, looking great. 👍

Bernhard Pethe
Eine gute Recherche, ist schon der halbe Weg zum Erfolg. Ich schau da mal weiter zu.

Sylvain Vernier
a new well documented article 👀

Cuajete
Nice start. Following! 👍

Raphael Bernecole
Very Nice 🙂

Cuajete
Marius, I'm glad you're taking up this interesting project again.
Very nice color scheme! It's the same scheme that this Mig-15 UTI? Egyptian Warriors (Condor Decals 72014, 1:72)

Nicolas
Following

Łukasz Gliński
Very nice camo sir 👍

Alec K
Excellent! Taking a belated seat.

Marius
Thank you for the interest mates!

@Cuajete: in a way it's similar, but not two EAF machines of the same type had the same "Nile" camouflage pattern. This was left to the freedom of artistic expresion of the maintainance workers. The rule was to use those three main colors: sand (sometimes orange sand), the weird green and a very dark green-tan (close to a complete black). The darkest color is certainly not the proposed brown of that decal sheet.

Otherwise, some of the EAF MiGs were overhauled in Warsaw Pact countries and were locally painted with only similar paints. The MiG-17 from the first picture of this album is such an example, where they applied directly black for the darkest color.

Sometimes order of colors was switched, while sometimes the applied pattern was completely irregular:

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This one below is some restored/repainted piece of museum in the US, where the darkest color is wrongly applied as brown:

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Villiers de Vos
Fantastic paint work.

Clement
Vert interesting project and it's always nice to see a build move from the shelf of doom back to the workbench 🙂

Cuajete
Marius, thank you so much for your interesting information 👍