Mig-23 MLA. trumpeter (red-39)
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
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.
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:
add thick, triangular sections of styrene:
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).
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
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
For the tires a 1:48th Hasegawa F-4 Phantom main wheel was used, with the hub removed.
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
The end result would look like this:
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
Here you can see the main axle being fabricated from a missile body:
This would be the end result, the actuator is a resin part provided in the Aires bay set:
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.
The parts were then primed.
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.
The gear bay doors are improved:
while raised detail was added to the auxiliary fuel tank
R-60 missile:
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21 December 2014, 07:42
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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!