MariusBeware of the painting guide/subject/marking selection. The number #1 option is incorrect, while the options #3 and #4 are 100% fiction and never existed. To be more precise about each marking option from the instructions:
#1. Egyptian (UARAF) MiG-19s were NOT metallic, but delivered in grey paint ("Russian Air Superiority Grey"). The later ones received from Irak were also grey. The identification stripes were definitely black with no white background.
#2. There are plenty of photographs with the new Shenyangs J-6 painted like this in the 80's, so you can check for yourself.
#3. Egypt/UARAF had no Shenyangs J-6 until the late 70's, so there was none in 1967. Also, there was absolutely no camouflage paint ever applied by Egypt neither on the MiG-19s nor on the Chinese copies other than the already presented marking #2 in the 80's. So the description of the type, year and painting suggestions are all inventions.
#4. Syria never operated the MiG-19, so there never was any MiG-19 with SyAAF markings. Neither during the UARAF period was there any common MiG-19 unit operating from Syria.
MariusHello Prieur,
regarding the grey colour used for the MiG-19, I have only the following information: it's designatiom is AS-1115, later know by the name you mentioned. I checked the literature again and Tom Cooper gives the MRP-354 as a match.
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Basically the same color as some late MiG-21s. Nevertheless, be aware that paint quality changed over the decades and at least the gred paint applied on MiG-19s used to develop some local bluish tones due to fatigue (age, heat, friction, etc), accorsing to accounts of Egyptian crews from the 1960s. For my own project, I chose a slightly more bluish overall impression. Probably it's not that accurate either.
MiG-19S - Egypt - 1967 | Album by Redicus (1:72)
Cheers, Marius
18 December 2023, 04:43