Mig-23 MLA. trumpeter (red-39)

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The gear bays were first painted with a gloss enamel, mixed to match the Russian colors. The wires were done with Vallejo Model Color and sealed with Future. Flat acrylic paint, a combination of 95% grey (60% black + 40% white) and brown 5% was gassed wi
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December 27, 2014
The cockpit canopy now follows the fuselage spine outline instead of bulging out. It took a lot of filing to achieve this and then the lower frame had to be reconstructed with white styrene.
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Yet another thing that the Trumpeter guys have done wrong is the shape of the jet intakes, symmetrical, when the top corner should have been more rounded... No big deal really, cut offending pieces:
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add thick, triangular sections of styrene:
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January 5, 2015
Family MiG 23 is the most complex landing on aircraft of all timpurile.Kit does not miserably in rendering this complexity and all angles are wrong. In ML gear front is too wide, so soil orientation is nothing like it should be (MF version is even worse).
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For the correct ground stance the front landing leg in 1:32nd should extend to 42 millimeters from the bottom of the fuselage (as opposed to 47 provided by the kit), while the lowest point of the burner can should be at 26 millimeters from the ground. The
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The kit has the rubber that is beautifully detailed but sadly are too thick. The hub has shallow details for the front, while the main ones are fictitious. They had to be replaced. The front wheels: to the left is the accurate version of the hub as oppose
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For the tires a 1:48th Hasegawa F-4 Phantom main wheel was used, with the hub removed.
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The main wheels were replicated from a Revell MiG 29A wheel copy heavily modified from left to right: 1. wheel trumpeter 2. wheel Revell 3. wheel modified Revell 4. wheel finals
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The end result would look like this:
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January 8, 2015
For the correct ground stance the front landing leg in 1:32nd should extend to 42 millimeters from the bottom of the fuselage (as opposed to 47 provided by the kit), while the lowest point of the burner can should be at 26 millimeters from the ground. The
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Here you can see the main axle being fabricated from a missile body:
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This would be the end result, the actuator is a resin part provided in the Aires bay set:
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January 12, 2015
The main gear is provided in two versions, both wrong, both too extended: for the ML and for the MF even worse, protrudes to the rear by one third , it cannot be retracted into the bay. The landing gear as is provided is simply unacceptable.
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The parts were then primed.
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January 16, 2015
The cover is shaped wheel set wrong, too right. A change had to be made of bits and pieces that included an F-4 Phantom auxiliary tank.
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The gear bay doors are improved:
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while raised detail was added to the auxiliary fuel tank
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R-60 missile:
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Comments

21 December 2014, 07:42

soheil moghisi
perfect.

24 December 2014, 08:44

Philip De Keyser
Wonderful job sofar 👍

24 December 2014, 08:58

Chris Parsons
Amazing work!

27 December 2014, 17:41

Marko
Very impressive.

5 January 2015, 19:32

Przemek Przybulewski
Outstanding work.

5 January 2015, 21:02

Alexander Perov
great plane requires a lot of work you get very cool

8 January 2015, 15:06

Stefan Schacht
looks very good so far 👍

8 January 2015, 23:30

Marc A.
Impresive job! those wires looks so real...Well done!!

9 January 2015, 13:32

Lucian Millo
Thank you all for feedback ! 🙂

9 January 2015, 14:12

Alexander Perov
and your F-4 just super

9 January 2015, 19:57

Lucian Millo
Thanks Alexander !

9 January 2015, 20:31

Florin Moldovan
The work of a master!

10 January 2015, 10:53

Maurits van der Aa
This is insane...

11 June 2016, 10:22

Choppa Nutta
attention to detail on the wheels and wells is awesome ! 🙂

11 June 2016, 10:37

Melf Boyens
Super Realism , awesome work!

11 June 2016, 12:33

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My new project is Trumpeter MiG 32 ml, with its many glaring defects corrected with the Aires resin - cockpit plus drive bays and inlet separator plates Zactomodels, very few pieces of kit Eduard exterior and lots of buildings zero!

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