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Marius Auteur
And to add up, Aztec Models are just as clueless. Can they show one single photograph of any Syrian MiG-21 looking like this? Not to mention that SYAAF MiG-21s never had roundels on the fuselage. They are as well presenting pre-1964 markings for the 1973 era. Let me show how easy it is to get it right (check the "Markings" tab))
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Air_Force

If someone gets upset about my comments, I challenge them to prove me wrong. Until then I will continue to have 0 tolerance for this repeated and year old attitude of "I don't care" from KP and any other company behaving the same. Folks, it's 2025! This sets a very bad example for people that care about technical and historical aspects, especially for newcomers or younger people. How come Eduard does it right in the vast majority of cases (like 99%)? Maybe for them modelling doesn't mean only glueing plastic and sniffing paint.

Matthew A
I fully agree. I ment that KP just seem to copy stuff and don't do any original research. It's a shame because there's so many real colour schemes that could be done.

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

Moreno Baruffini
As the above, following with interest!

Marius Auteur
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 Auteur
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 Auteur
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 Auteur
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 Auteur
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 Auteur
Raphael and Shar, thank you mates! 🙏

Ekki
Very good job!

Marius Auteur
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 Auteur
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.