MiG-23 MF/UB 'Flogger' - Double Build - KP
Hungarian Air Force

What is better than a MiG-23?

Two MiG-23's.

So let's clean out the stash of boxes a bit and build the single seater and the trainer version at the same time! These Kovozávody Prostějov kits are notorious for their rather poor fit, but currently there is no other version of the MF and UB that can be bought, as far as I know. And having built an Art Models MiG-23 kit in the past (nearly identical to the KP kits), I think I know the pitfalls.

The single seater will be wearing the standard Hungarian green/brown camouflage, and the twin seater (being an aircraft that was given to Hungary from the Soviet Union as a replacement for a crashed MiG-23 UB) is dressed in a more unusual Soviet style camo.

By the way, this latecomer to the Hungarian fleet was soon nicknamed "Ivan the Terrible", and the ground crew even painted this name ("Rettegett Iván") on the nose on the right side. However, as soon as this was found out by the air force wing commander, the ground crew received a proper scolding and were ordered to immediate remove the nickname - which was then painted over with a completely different green paint.