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Marius (Redicus)
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MiG-21MF LanceR C - Romania - 2012

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78 18 December 2021, 18:30
Jan Peters
Very cool subject Marius, I will follow this with interest.
Shame the resin parts dont really fit, I had the same problem with the brassin exhaust tube that came with the bunny fighter MF. Could not get it to fit,. You are taking the hard road, but in the end it will be worth it👍🏻
19 December 2021, 16:52
Łukasz Gliński
Following, lovely topic
25 December 2021, 22:07
Piotr Sarniński-Górecki
I'm in !
25 December 2021, 22:19
Pierre-Christian Baudru
Great project ! I'm doing the same and will follow your build.
26 December 2021, 05:38
Konrad -
Awesome work! Take a seat as well!
26 December 2021, 08:54
Cuajete
Nice job so far. Following!
26 December 2021, 10:11
Piotr Sarniński-Górecki
Your projects Marius are some kind of NG or Discovery documents - a really pleasure to watch 🙂
26 December 2021, 10:49
Cuajete
It's good to see the differences between both versions 👍
26 December 2021, 18:08
Piotr Sarniński-Górecki
🎯☝😁
26 December 2021, 22:19
Ben M
Looks good and enjoying the history
30 December 2021, 19:36
Cuajete
Camo looks so good 👍
30 December 2021, 19:41
Marius
So I finally managed to find a proper color for the unusual blue applied on the underside. General painting should be ready. Decals next.
17 January 2022, 05:46
Harry Eder
Interesting topic! Following too!
17 January 2022, 06:54
Michael Kohl
interesting project. Thanx for the detailled outline of the versions specifications. This might help some in the future.
17 January 2022, 07:52
Cuajete
Nice job so far 👍
17 January 2022, 19:47
Charlie Spitfire
i love the underside
27 February 2022, 23:53
Marius
Thank you all for the comments so far. The construction is very advanced, but I am waiting for some white stencils to arrive before posting new pictures. I am so far happy with the progress, but it's going slow since I am having other 5(!) MiG-21s in progress.
28 February 2022, 09:18
Robin (WhiteGlint)
Joining the rest of the journey.
The colours are great 👍
28 February 2022, 11:16
Ekki
Following with great interest!
14 March 2022, 21:29
Marius
Thank you. As usual, I noticed some surface imperfections for the first time in the pictures thanks to the lightning and macro....I guess that should be the next step, fixing all of that.
15 March 2022, 09:25
Bernd Grün
Very impressive LanceR, Marius. Outstanding build and paint job. Congratulation!
15 March 2022, 12:53
Jan Peters
Looking good Marius 👍🏻
Minor imperfections are only seen in a macro picture, so why bother?
15 March 2022, 18:48
Cuajete
I agree with Jan... Keep going, Mario! 😉 👍
15 March 2022, 19:19
S M
Inspirational! 😄
16 March 2022, 20:16
Zsolt Czegle
Great work! 👍
17 March 2022, 19:51
Jan Peters
👌🏻👌🏻 excellent result Marius!
26 April 2022, 17:39
Thomas Kolb
That is one absolutely stunning MiG-21!
26 April 2022, 18:20
Cuajete
I agree with the mates. Fantastic result.
Congrats!
26 April 2022, 18:39
Gary Victory
Very nice MIG Marius. Top Job Sir.
27 April 2022, 06:18
Piotr Sarniński-Górecki
Another beautiful model from your workshop Marius - congrats !!! Pleasure to look 🙂
27 April 2022, 08:42
Michael Kohl
This is a very attractive version and a beautiful model.
27 April 2022, 09:26
Marius
Thank you so much guys, really appreciate it! 🙂 I am aware it's not perfect, but I am comfortable with the result.

I decided to upload the finished model here as well, since I apparently created more confusion with two albums.

@Jan you were right at the beginning, the resin parts were worth it in the end.
It is a very heavy model in the end due to the resin parts and additional counterweights to compensate. The landing gear broke several times during handling due to the weight.

27 April 2022, 14:56
Simon Nagorsnik
Great result mate!
Top paint job and i like the camo pattern that you have chosen👍
27 April 2022, 15:10
Guy Rump
Great modelling 👍
27 April 2022, 15:27
Harvey H.W.
The Camo is so eye-catching!
27 April 2022, 16:11

Album info

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, several Eastern European countries were facing difficulties being supplied with spare parts and engines for their Soviet made military aircraft fleet, in some cases even with significantly higher prices. One such case was Romania, which had a particularly cold/distant relationship with the USSR. This forced the Romanian Air Forces to retire prematurely the MiG-23s and MiG-29s not long after the year 2000. The MiG-29s were barely received in december 1989.

Instead, it was decided in 1993 to upgrade 110 MiG-21Ms and MFs to western standards. The program provided a total inventory of 73 MiG 21 LanceR A (single-seat ground attack variant), 23 LanceR C (single-seat air superiority jets) and 14 LanceR B (two-seat training and ground-attack version). The MiG-21 LanceR had now modern avionics, self defense systems and could arm both modern western weapons and soviet weapons, becoming a fourth generation jet.

As of end of 2021, between 25 ad 30 MiG-21 LanceR were probably still operational, with parts of the fleet being already replaced since 2016 with F-16 AMs. The MiG-21 LanceR will be completely retired in the coming few years, after which Romania won't be having any Soviet made military aircraft any more.

On the 3rd of March 2022 , one week after the Ukraine War had started, a further fatal MiG-21 Lancer C accident has lead to the indefinite grounding of the entire remaining LanceR fleet. The accident was officially caused by extreme weather, but since the event happened not very far from the border to Ukraine and the Black Sea, there was plenty of room for speculations.

My model is equipped with two R550 Magic II missiles ans two external fuel tanks, a typical configuration for air policing.

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1:72 MIG-21 LanceR Cockpit and Exterior conversion (Icaerodesign 06)1:72 MiG-21SM/M/MF Fishbed-J - Pitot Tube (Master AM-72-043)1:72 MiG-21MF Fishbed - Air Scoops (Quickboost QB 72 580)7+
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MF Lancer C
RO Forţele Aeriene Române (Romanian Air Force 1985-now)
862 Sqn. 5724
2012 - Feteşti AFB
 

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