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Dick
It's a beauty and I like the camo very much, well done Marius!

Vincent
Very nice result! The scheme looks amazing!

Guy Rump
Excellent job! 👍

Marius
Thank you Clement and Guy!
I like these early metallic chimney pipes, especially the ones from the dark side.

一生还一夜
It seems that those guys at finemolds have new-tooled the underneath surface of the wing,with an addtion of the airbrakes.Hope they can move on to the variants such as the Hellenic phantoms as well as the Turkish terminators 2000.Both of thems need some modifications based on the current FM phantoms…

Marius
Thanks for the information, I had no idea. Good thing they retooled the underside with the airbrakes. Hopefully they also fixed some of the not so good fit in a few locations.

一生还一夜
I agree with you.The fit of the air intakes is disappointing,thought the gap can be seen as a panel line.（・∀・）

Marius
Raphael and Shar, thank you mates! 🙏

Ekki
Very good job!

Marius
Thank you mates for the interest.

@Alain: I don't remember exactly, probably Ebay, but you should be able to find it also in some hobby shops:
Step Ladders MiG-15/MiG-17 (Brengun BRL72077, 1:72)

Felix
Wow, so schön!

Marius
Hello Usman,

that is true indeed. The authors of that book are the very well known David Nicolle and Tom Cooper, publishers of very numerous high quality works regarding Arab armed forces. Nevertheless, that very specific book originates in the prehistorics of their research of Arab air forces, when a signifficant amount of today's information and known historical photographs did not come to surface yet. Tom Cooper admits himself that that specific book is just full of mistakes and wrong aircraft color profiles (see for example some fictious Syrian MiG-21s in tri-color camouflage with roundels on fuselage).

Just to wrap it up, there is not one single photographic evidence nor recollections or reports of the era showing or mentioning any UARAF MiG-19 painted differently than in the grey colour mentioned in my original post above, so not even in a natural metal finish. There are a few published photographs of the grey Egyptian MiG-19s from the 1960s in the much newer books "Arab MiGs" (Volumes 2 and 3) and " MiGs in the Middle East" Volume 2 by the same two authors. Since many Egyptian MiG-19 originated from Iraq, there are a few more such pictures with the Iraqi MiG-19s in "Wings of Iraq" Volume 2 (T. Cooper, M. Sipos).

My own interpretation of one such MiG-19 here:
MiG-19S - Egypt - 1967 | Project by Redicus (1:72)

Cheers
Marius

Usman Ansari
Thanks Marius! I'll check those newer books out. I've occasionally interacted with Cooper on Facebook about this subject, but didn't realise that earlier book was so riddled with mistakes. It is over 20 years old now though I guess, and much more information has come to light since then.

KP perhaps grabbed a copy of the earlier book and maybe assumed it was correct s went ahead with with printing decals based on it...

That's a top quality model you made. Looks awesome.

Take care,

Usman.

Marius
Danke Sebastian!

I forgot to mention, here you can find his other brother with an alternative camouflage scheme:
Panavia Tornado IDS - Deutsche Marine - MFG2 | Album by Redicus (1:72)

Ekki
Excellent work!

Marius
Thank you guys so much for taking the time to look in the album.

The diorama will follow in any case, so the thread will keep going.

Ekki
Only see this now.
A beauty!
Well done!

Marius
Thank you Oleg, Bhm Dhn and Jennifer!

@Bhm Dhn: I am personally very careful with applying camo over pre-shading by using a 0.2mm airbrush nozzle and starting with the camo edges until they are solid enough. This time I just messed up the colours and had to redo everything. Here is one other recent example where things went well:
F-4E - Israel - 1973 | Album by Redicus (1:72)

Thorsten Höse
Very nice one!
I really like the paint job you've done!

Marius
Thank you everybody for the appreciation! I did not expect it to be honest.

I guess a Vautour IIN in a similar livery will soon be on my workbench.

Shar Dipree
Very nice. 👍

一生还一夜
Thanks a lot for the detailed information ！

Mirko Römer
Hammertime!

Christian Lehmann
👍

Thomas Kolb
I would have thought that it was 1:48. The paintjob and weathering is outstanding.

Michael Kohl
"...@Michael: thank you for noticing again the exhaust area. As a matter of fact, it's not as mich effort as it seems."

Well, for me it was a hell of an effort at my Phantom. Looks like I have to work on my technique and make it a bit leaner. 🙂

Pepe
Nice job!!

Marius
@Vintagemodeler: sure, you ca go to someone's page/profile and there is this button called "actions" close to the profile picture. There you can choose to "follow" or become "mates". If you are following someone, a list of those users will appear on your page and you can check them from time to time. I am also checking from time to time the modellers I am following. I don't know if there is any way to get notifications when some of your mates are posting something.

Vintagemodeler
Thank you Marius going for it

Marius
Danke fürs Photo! Sind es normalerweise viele Besucher? Sonst habe ich den Eindruck vom Bild, dass einige Leute sogar was verkaufen?

bughunter
Besucher geht so, je nach Zeit. Mir geht es eher um das Treffen mit den anderen Modellbauerm.
Und ja, man kann sich auch als Verkäufer anmelden, kostet etwas. Es gibt ein paar Händer, Bücher etc.

Marius
Thank you Cuajete and Joseph!

Marcin Dudek
Wow, grate nmf! 👏👍

Cuajete
I agree with Oleg. Fantastic result.
Congrats!

Marius
Thank you Oleg and Cuajete! Yes, a Vietnam-era collection is slowly building up, with an F-4E following as well.

Cuajete
Great job one more time. Fantastic result, Marius.
Congrats!

Marius
Thank you once more for the appreciation Cuajete!