AREA 88 : "Blue Cheese 7"

Greg Baker
I'll need some decals for a trio of East German MiG-21s... anyone know where I can get some in 1/144 scale?

Matthew A
Looking at the manga in the banner it looks like a job for the old Crown/Revell/minicraft kit

Matthew A
Just realized I say "GDR" but type "DDR" - "It's all in the mind you know."

Greg Baker
What makes you say Crown/Revell/minicraft? I'm open to suggestions, but I was also thinking about this one - Ebay.com Item - Trumpeter 1 144 01325 MiG 21 THE PLA AIR FORCE F 7II

Matthew A
Your right it is job for an F-7II - how did I miss those guns lol. I just saw the spine and canopy and thought that's not a MiG-21bis. I was thinking there was only the Crown or Trumpeter PF's left as an option.

Greg Baker
Whew! I was afraid to proceed without your guidance! I'm glad you concur~

Matthew A
I'm a big MiG-21 fan - the misses won't let me have one in the back garden, so I have to make do with a pair of these [img1] PLAAF F-7 pilot's boots from 1989

Matthew A
I was fiddeling with the laces at a bus stop in Farnborough the week before the 2016 AirShow and a Chinese chap came over pointed at them and went "WOOSH" making the gesture of a plane taking of at 60 degress - it was realy cool

Nils Steyaert
ive seen some GDR decals on Ali Express:
aliexpress.com/item/..01.12.557bdbf5LYHjQN

Nils Steyaert
i have a couple of Trumpeter/Crown Mig-21PF's and J-7II's from aliexpress aswell, they are cheap and easy to come by.
on one hand the Mig-21 has the right landing gear length but lacks detail, and the J-7II has lots of detail panel lines but its landing gear is freakishly long. i would recommend a combination of the 2 kits for wheels down, but if your planning on building them wheels up, i would go with the J-7.

nl.aliexpress.com/it..0.0.0.4d7f2e0ejkmZPo

Greg Baker
Thanks Nils... it'll be wheels-up, so the J-7 seems like the right choice. Those decals look like just what I need too.

Matthew A
those decals do look good - do you know the make - ebay says Bell-MODELS

Matthew A
Nroth Korean people's army M..g (Bell-MODELS 63067, 1:144) according to a chap on britmoddler they are inkjet printed

Greg Baker
Thanks guys. I ordered the Mark I decals and the Learjet off eBay and ordered the J-7s off Alixpress.

The scene for the manga is pretty neat. it's a flashback from Greg's earlier days as an "underground air charter service" helping people defect from the Eastern Bloc. On this mission he's spiriting a world-renowned Soviet violinist to England and runs afoul of East Germans when his compas is damaged. It's a real Cold War adventure tale. So I'm excited to build another unusual pairing.