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Alec K
Greetings! Here are some pics of my new build. Skating back into the post-WW II period, it's the first Soviet supersonic fighter, the MiG-19. The original KP had this aircraft in their lineup back when and it was the first kit I have completed fully by myself as a wee lad. I was actually home "sick" from school for a week recovering from chicken pocks. Instead of heling myself appropriately in bed, I modeled illicitly at the kitchen table as soon as my parents left for work. Ahhh, what a glorious week…

The kit is the much-reviled 2019 "new tool" from KPs "traditional manufacturer" (or usurper, depending on where one stands in this ongoing mud-slinging match). It's a short-run technology kit, so "traditional" in that sense but really a bit old-school for today's pampered modeler. In the "modern" era, Trumpeter had it in their catalog in 2008 but it was never released. Clear Prop has been working on it last few years but the events in Ukraine clearly impacted its release. Rather than wait for a better offering, I decided to go for it and build the KP's kit with few PE and resin bits thrown in. Hope you enjoy!

Paul Shearer
Impressive scratch work 👍👍 Looks like it's going to be amazing!

Alexander Grivonev
What a start, great scratchbuilding. Following!

Ben M
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gorby
Oh good! Looking forward to another scratch building masterclass. 🙂

Mid Franconian
Taking a seat!

Matti Thomaes
Fantastic scratchwork, following

S M
Well described building techniques! Following! 😄

Nicolas
Great start. 👍

Cuajete
Great start. Following!

Zbynek Honzik
It's gonna be another ride!
I'm taking a seat and I'll be watching closely. And I'm sure I'll learn something.
Thanks for sharing Alec!

Alec K
Thanks all for coming along and your positive comments 👍 This build is coming along nicely, so far...

Łukasz Gliński
Oh wow, what a topic, watching for sure, even though it might kill my will to build my Farmers afterwards 😄

Marko Arangelov
Wonderful!

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
Really nice progress Alec - I´m in for this 🙂

Robert Podkoński
Fantastic job so far. Keep it up!

Michael Kohl
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Jakub Fiala
Excellent start Alec, and great choice of aircraft type. As a kid I loved the box art on the old box from Kovozávody. I built this new KP and I know that it is not exactly a top kit. But it probably doesn't matter to you, almost everything will be scratchbuild anyway 😄