MiG-21PFM (94N)
Polish PFM-s had no openings at upper wing surfaces - Eduard's have
First step - fill some lines and holes 🙂
The engine nozzle cover grinded
Undercarriage compartments ready
Current status (only put together)
Cockpit during assembly - grey not turquoise because all plane will be painted as before first overhaul.
I'm a bit stuck waiting for the silicone to crosslink....
After the fourth time, I decided to copy the nozzle - future MiGs will have it easier.
Cockpit ready... to close canopy 🙂 Above the finder it's a spec-bomb operating panel.
Prepainted colour surfaces
on both sides 🙂
Masked and primed
GX-2 Ueno Black Gloss
Aluminium metalizer
Fuel tanks painted
Masks removed
Ready for decals - GX-100 applied
Decals during design
Easy part with decals done 😄 Now I have to collect some patience to do next phase 😄
1h20'' -> 1/3 stencils on place. Uff...
Stencils, stencils, stencils... After approx. 2-2,5h still around 50 to go...
The most important element of the MiG-21PFM-N project - IAB-500 bomb - installed
Gallery 🙂
Gallery 🙂
Gallery 🙂
Gallery 🙂
Gallery 🙂
Gallery 🙂
Gallery 🙂
Gallery 🙂
Gallery 🙂
Gallery 🙂
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MiG-21PFM with the side number 7903 is one of twelve MiGs delivered to Poland in the 94N (nuclear weapons carrier) variant. Most of the time all machines of this version served in the 2nd PLM in Goleniów. After overhauls in the mid-1980s, they lost their functions as carriers of special weapons. Here I present it in an earlier period - with a gray cockpit and an IAB-500 bomb (these bombs were reportedly available only during exercises in Soviet units located in Poland).
Two sentences about the IAB-500 - it was a dummy bomb. Filled with almost a quarter of a ton of liquid fuel, it exploded creating a fireball about 100-120 meters in diameter for 3-4 seconds and then a cloud of smoke as high as 1 kilometer.
