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Matthew A
2190 appears on other decals and in profiles, so it's just laziness on KPM's part.
Aztec Models instruction sheet explains that it is not standard colours due to being sent to eastern Europe.

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MiG-21F-13 and Chengdu J-7 (Aztec Models 72-052, 1:72)

Marius Autor
I am not certain I completely understood your comment, but will try to elaborate and explain.

The above Syrian profiles are either copied from or made by Tom Cooper more than 20 years ago during the prehistory of research in the topic of Arab Air Forces. He admitted himself they are completely wrong and never existed. The error is due to misinterpetation of historic photographs and lack of knowledge. In the mean time, dozens of publications are available with correct information. This topic was already over and over discussed also on the internet.

Otherwise, color schemes and marking options found on the internet, or made by kit producers or found on decal sheets are NEVER a reference, but historic photographs are. Sometimes interviews with protagonists of specific events together with profiles in some well researched literature acn be taken as reference as well.

And yes, KP is lazy puting the green Syrian insignia in 1974, although it wasn't being used since 10 years. Imagine a German Tornado with a DDR insignia and desert camouflage, would that make a good or an embarassing image of the kit/decal producer?

The thing is, KP messes up nzmerous non-European topics, for example:
Mikoyan Mig-19S / Shenyang F..dy Prostějov KPM0188, 1:72)

Sergej I
Love the resin kit builds! 👍 Following with interest 🙂

Moreno Baruffini
As the above, following with interest!

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

Kostas Pappy
Marius, U have my outmost admiration for your Phantom. That's an 'Ace' build (love the Mig's as well)

Tibor Szilvai
Pro! 👍

Marius Autor
Thank you so much mates, I really appreciate the feedback.
While it's not a very common subject, now looking back I wished I had done this one a little better.

Alec K
Great job on this build Marius, came across it during my research for my MiG-19 build. Thank you for a great wip, saved me much anguish 👍

Marius Autor
Thank you Alec! Happy it helped you a bit.
Personally I am a bit unhappy regarding a couple of details I didn't work well enough, but I will be doing a metallic MiG-19PM in some months where hopefully all these lessons learned will be implemented. Maybe I will follow your example with all those deployed aerodynamic brakes. The one beneath the fuselage is particularly badly represented in the kit, so you did a good job at not leaving it that way.

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 Autor
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 Autor
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 Autor
Raphael and Shar, thank you mates! 🙏

Ekki
Very good job!

Marius Autor
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 Autor
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 Autor
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 Autor
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 Autor
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!