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Bernhard Pethe
Eine gute Recherche, ist schon der halbe Weg zum Erfolg. Ich schau da mal weiter zu.

Sylvain Vernier
a new well documented article 👀

Cuajete
Nice start. Following! 👍

Raphael Bernecole
Very Nice 🙂

Cuajete
Marius, I'm glad you're taking up this interesting project again.
Very nice color scheme! It's the same scheme that this Mig-15 UTI? Egyptian Warriors (Condor Decals 72014, 1:72)

Nicolas
Following

Łukasz Gliński
Very nice camo sir 👍

Alec K
Excellent! Taking a belated seat.

Marius
Thank you for the interest mates!

@Cuajete: in a way it's similar, but not two EAF machines of the same type had the same "Nile" camouflage pattern. This was left to the freedom of artistic expresion of the maintainance workers. The rule was to use those three main colors: sand (sometimes orange sand), the weird green and a very dark green-tan (close to a complete black). The darkest color is certainly not the proposed brown of that decal sheet.

Otherwise, some of the EAF MiGs were overhauled in Warsaw Pact countries and were locally painted with only similar paints. The MiG-17 from the first picture of this album is such an example, where they applied directly black for the darkest color.

Sometimes order of colors was switched, while sometimes the applied pattern was completely irregular:

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This one below is some restored/repainted piece of museum in the US, where the darkest color is wrongly applied as brown:

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Villiers de Vos
Fantastic paint work.

Clement
Vert interesting project and it's always nice to see a build move from the shelf of doom back to the workbench 🙂

Cuajete
Marius, thank you so much for your interesting information 👍

Clement
Interesting pick for a 10 day challenge. But I guess it wouldn't be a challenge without a challenging kit. Best of luck.

Mike Volkov
Thank you Clement! I hope for the best 😅

Alec K
Taking a seat.

Mike Volkov
Day 2/10 on 10-day challenge: cockpit and gear bays painted and glued the fuselage together. Ready for filling and sanding...

Cuajete
INteresting...
Following!

S M
KP kit in 10 days? Taking a seat 😄

Mike Volkov
Day 3/10: lot of filling and sanding.... 😥

Alec K
Hopefully the worse is behind you. Nice progress 👍

Mike Volkov
I hope so too. 😄
Day 4/10: KP has given me a lot of fantastic sanding opportunities, but I'm finally getting to the priming. But it still needs a lot of fixing before I can start painting it.

Clement
"Sanding opportunities" is a nice way of putting it 😄
So far so good, looks like you have a good chance of pulling this off.

Cuajete
Well done so far! 👍

Mike Volkov
Day 5/10: Repairs after priming and some panel rescribing. Wheels and landing gear finished.

Mike Volkov
Day 6/10: Starting the paintjob with colour correction. The colour of the gear bay is grey and not bluish grey, and the wheel rim is typical Russian green and not grey. So I had to repaint a few things today. I use Ammo masking putty to temporarily hold small parts like this.

Cuajete
Good progress, Mike 👍

DerMattes
Great build! 👍

Oliver
Jup, looks great

Robert Podkoński
Beautiful!

Neuling
Very good work!

Vincent
Very nice result!

Mr D
Good to get a start Kesa, Nice project 👍👍

gorby
I agree, I'll follow as well. 🙂

Kesa Tiho
Thanks guys

Since you two are here i thought i should ask, should i paint it the modernized paint scheme? With the helipad and such (btw gorby ill respond to your response in a little while, im still thinking about what to say)

Mr D
Hi Kesa
I think it would be good in the box art scheme.... Smart 👍👍

Kesa Tiho
Id also paint it the box art scheme but i just dont have the correct colours and thought it looked.. odd.. maybe ill try to paint it the box art scheme from the sideview

gorby
When I decide what paint scheme to go for it comes down to available paints and usually I have a much stronger urge to do one of the options, or sometimes I make up a scheme if the options don't appeal to me.