MiG-17PF Fresco D, 11 Fighter Aviation Regiment, Czechoslovak Air Force

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Follwing

Łukasz Gliński
Love the pic #37. Really brave choice for a return to the hobby, though I love these vintage kits. You'd better pick the new Airfix Fresco to enjoy the building next time 😉

Rui
Thanks Lukasz. My first kit was that Lindberg Do 335. Not a great kit but I was doing well with it and then disaster struck when the flat varnish I used reacted with the paint. I got a little discourage and decided to try this kit. I learned a lot. I do have my eye on that new Airfix Fresco but recently it became hard to find. Anyway, I'm working through my duplicate kits in my stash and the next one might be a Starfighter in Canadian livery.

Gordon Sørensen
Looks good, Rui! Nice NMF, what did you use? When you said there was a lot of oversized rivets, you weren't kidding...

Łukasz Gliński
Airfix released rebox recently (with Polish silver-blue livery) which might explain the availability issues

Rui
Thanks Gordon. I used Vallejo Air Aluminium and Dark Aluminium. First time using Vallejo paints. The metal ended up looking textured which didn't show in my test sprays so I think it was the Stynylrez white primer.

Johan DN
Nice result with an old kit.
I had this kit and several others from KP in my stash. I sold them all. Instead I have build the Airfix and Hasegawa Mig-17. More fun.
Only brave men or women are able to build the old KP kits 🙂

Rui
Thank Johan, I figured that if I can do a half decent job on a old difficult kit like this, then I should be able to a reasonably good job on a modern quality kit.

Charlie Spitfire
i have a airfix mig and am exited about building in in the future after my Blenheim is done

Rui
If, the Airfix MiG you have is the latest one, then you're in for a sweet build, because I have it and it looks great...Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F 'Fr..g J-5] (Airfix A03091, 1:72)

Charlie Spitfire
that same one i have i got it for my 15th birthday but i think airfix have another one to come i think it is a mig 15

Charlie Spitfire
cheek out my albums as we have a mig 17 at our air museum here in Ashburton i was allowed to stand on it so i could get inspiration

Rui
That's pretty cool Charlie. We have some air museums near me, but I don't recall any MiGs or that anyone is allowed to stand on the planes.

I have the Airfix box set of a Sabre and a MiG 15. It looks very good in the box so I think it will build up nicely. I did the KP kit as part of redeveloping my skills to return to the hobby. Saving the better kits until I learn a few more skills.
North American F-86F Sabre & MiG 15 (Airfix A82011, 1:72)

The only thing I really didn't like about the KP MiG 17 was the raised panel lines and the rivets. The fit wasn't too bad and it has some good detail, but the detail is a little soft. I really built this kit to develop techniques for painting metal finishes and trying panel variation. Learned a lot: especially about how metallic paints mess up the airbrush 😜

Robert Podkoński
Really good work on this "rivet monster", Rui!

Rui
Thanks Robert. Sometime in the future I plan to build the new tool Airfix and then dare to compare side by side. If there is no improvement then we can only blame the builder because the new mig looks great in the box. 😁

Charlie Spitfire
i have i picture of me on the mig if you want to cheek it out i know Robert has

Rui
Hi Charlie. I saw the pic of you on the MiG. I mentioned that a few comments earlier that it look very cool.

Charlie Spitfire
in the picture you can see the nose of the harrier jump jet the only one in new zealand

Charlie Spitfire
the thing i dont like about the sabar in that club kit is the wait is visible sorry about the spelling

Thomas Kolb
Anybody who was ever able to build this kit is worthy an applause for sheer resilience! Well done and a nice MiG!

Łukasz Gliński
@Thomas: sounds like a challenge 😛

Thomas Kolb
Łukasz, I have already built the MisterCraft version: it is the same as the KoPro, only with removed rivets and instead panel lines carved in by a one-eyed chimpanzee with arthritis.

Łukasz Gliński
I have the KP kit on my to-do-list and I hope to get at least as decent result as Rui's got.

Mirko Römer
Great job on that old frigate!💪

Andy Ball
Great Fresco, flaps up too!

Rui
Thanks guys. This build was really to learn how to do a metal finish and try out a few techniques like chipping. I had no idea how poor the quality was so it also thought me a valuable lesson in filing gaps and sanding 😁.

Rui
Lt. Schaefer - I have that new tool Airfix MiG-17 in my stash and a very nice kit. The detail is great. I hope to build it some time soon.

Ludvík Kružík
It is nice to see that even outside the Czech Republic someone can build a machine with Czechoslovak markings.
For me this kit is also a nice memory of the time many years ago when I started modelling. Back then it was a great kit for me. I still remember how I built the model very quickly, without any puttying or painting the interior (I didn't do that as a kid). I painted the Egyptian camouflage on the model with a brush using regular water colors. You can imagine what the finished model looked like. But I was duly proud of it and very pleased when my friends admired and envied it.

Rui, your model is really nice considering what it was built from. Thank you for the fond memories of my modelling beginnings and I wish you a successful return to this beautiful hobby.

Rui
Thanks, Ludvik.

I had to order the markings from a company online that specializes in replacement decals, because the kit decals were nearly 50 years old.

I lived through that later half of the Cold War and generally ignored contemporary military topics (my interests was always the Second World War). However, in recent years I have taken an interest in post-second world war topics, with a keen focus on the 50s, 60s and 70s, hence the choice of Czechoslovak markings for an aircraft from the very early stages of the jet age.

Glad I could trigger some fond memories. 👍

Łukasz Gliński
You did indeed, from the very start 👍

Pierre Pierre
Just find your built thisbmorning. Indeed it was a courageous. I built one too. I was younger I was more impatien, i did not dare to go silver and used old decal...

Rui
Thanks Pierre. Yes it's a terrible kit, but My goal was practice. Only enough the fit wasn't too bad, but the plastic was terrible with poor details and so main rivets, and then more rivets, and they were not subtle rivets either LOL. The canopy was also a joke. Anyway, the object was achieved and I think it was a bad result considering I had never done a natural metal finish before.