Project MiG-15 Bis

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November 8, 2016
My project finished
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May 26, 2016
the box picture
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May 26, 2016
a dry assembly of the ITALERI kit with wings from the KP one. Wings match with fuselage!
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May 26, 2016
I did a cut to lower fuselage for improving the cannons assembly
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May 26, 2016
...and this is what i got with the Eduard optional spare. 😉
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May 26, 2016
I made a stronger assembly of interiors and for masking the light, no more visible through the frontal intake.
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May 26, 2016
KK-1 ejection seat is hand-made by scratch
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May 26, 2016
KK-1 ejection seat from scratches spares [the original one was horrible]... definitively painted with belts added.
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May 26, 2016
right view of the KK-1 seat
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May 26, 2016
the tug dry assembled, before the definitive painting
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May 26, 2016
instruments panel from Eduard kit and decals
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May 26, 2016
in 1/72 scale instruments panel better with decals and ‘future’ wax for lens.... 🙂
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May 26, 2016
I hand-built the gun sight [ full colored left view ]
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May 26, 2016
the “pipper” after a weathering dry brush
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May 26, 2016
Added the gun sight to instruments panel.
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May 26, 2016
Ensemble of three parts Tug cockpit
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May 26, 2016
I add on left wall the wheel and yellow gas throttle
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May 26, 2016
Well. I think it is nice. 😉
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May 26, 2016
view of the whole Tug, without eject. seat
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May 26, 2016
At left hand the original wheels...completely under-scale! At right hand the correct KP wheels, with internal insert from Eduard optional spares...i did a huge work for reaching this result! 🙂
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May 26, 2016
Noteworthy the differences between ITALERI kit [top] and KP wing, with its better appearance [bottom]
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May 26, 2016
Correct length, chord and angled arrow for tailplanes of the left (hand) couple [ KP kit] so different respect the couple of empennage, on right (hand) [ ITALERI kit]
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May 26, 2016
i found MiG-15 Bis 1/72 Czech drawings by Web, very nice document
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May 26, 2016
...KP kit’s wings and tail planes MATCH with drawings. Wonderful!
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May 26, 2016
Then i filled the little gap -presents in internal fence of KP wing kit- with plasticard, glue and Mr. Surfacer....
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May 26, 2016
..after a good polishing, the corrected internal fence it will be filled, smooth and perfect as the real one.
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May 26, 2016
I opened the 37mm gun [At bottom left] with mini-drill
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May 26, 2016
original Dragon/Italeri jet exhaust
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May 26, 2016
that is perfect...to my project
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May 26, 2016
...but it has a good detailing
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May 26, 2016
...cutting the original
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May 26, 2016
and obtained the base support for exhaust tube into fuselage
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May 26, 2016
this is what i will assemble for a correct jet exhaust
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May 26, 2016
Thus i decided to utilize the spare Eduard exhaust tube
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May 26, 2016
Process is ended after glueing the parts with cement and white glue, over a little piece of curved sprue to make the joint to fuselage stronger.
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May 26, 2016
AV Primer Grey overall
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May 26, 2016
In this view, noteworthy is the correct angle of wings and empennage i got. Exhaust tube is filled with glue ‘Copydex®’ as a Maskol rubber solution...
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May 26, 2016
Now is time to cure it for a week
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October 20, 2016
After the unusual camou done, I passed to decalling and now is time to spray the transparent coat for finishing.
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October 20, 2016
After some tests in FEB 1952, the Russians decided to adopt a new greenish silver upper surfaces, mid Blue undersides, which was called "air superiority" camouflage for their MiGs to down-tone the high visibility NM of Fighters in air during the war
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November 1, 2016
Middle Blue overall undersurfaces
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October 30, 2016
Two original pics taken during Korean war who inspired my diorama project
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October 30, 2016
The idea for my project in advanced stage
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October 29, 2016
before i complete the painting of some figures and base
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October 29, 2016
Preview of my project as diorama
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October 29, 2016
different angle of view
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November 8, 2016
my work is terminated
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November 8, 2016
Hope you enjoy it
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November 8, 2016
Captain A. Karelin with its MiG-15 Bis (s/n 1315325)
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November 8, 2016
Antung base runway, China. April 1952
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November 8, 2016
Quite satisfied, despite the ugly kit....

Comments

26 May 2016, 19:22

Maciej Bellos
Extensive work. I didn't know the italeri kit was such a dog.

26 May 2016, 19:58

LIVIO FARINA
Yep... 🙁 ....mate Maciej !! 😄

26 May 2016, 20:57

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Congratulations .... Good and extensive work on a chunky kit ...

27 May 2016, 09:24

Cristian Bordina
Bel lavoro Livio, lo seguo con interesse 🙂

27 May 2016, 13:34

LIVIO FARINA
Grazie and Thank you, mates! So happy you can be interested to my "in progress" project. 🙂

27 May 2016, 14:51

Ekki
I'll be following this ...

27 May 2016, 16:58

LIVIO FARINA
😢

28 May 2016, 06:26

Maciej Bellos
It seems to have turned out pretty ok. Congrats.

20 October 2016, 13:37

Dave Flitton
Awesome! Thanks for showing the corrections!

20 October 2016, 16:03

LIVIO FARINA
Ty, my dear mates! ...you make me blushing...

20 October 2016, 20:21

Urban Gardini
Great work so far and the MiG turned out great. The display will be as good as the MiG so that's something to look forward to. Didn't know about the colours for this scheme so thanks for that as well!

30 October 2016, 01:41

Album info

From the ITALERI 1:72 box with some improvements,
thanks to spares from KP and Eduard Kits, I wish to
build an acceptable model despite the many flaws
are present in this 'nightmare' and ugly Dragon/Italeri mold...
indeed, my project is to reproduce this unusual camouflage for the KoreanWar ace [He got two B-29 shoot down in June 10th 1952 with this fighter] captain Anatoly Karelin's MiG-15 Bis (s/n 1315325) operating far from February 1952 at Andung (China) with the 351st IAP [Regiment of the 32nd Division of 64th IAK Istrebitelniy Aviatsionniy Korpus - i.e. Fighter Air Corps] in greenish silver on upper surfaces and Mid. Blue undersides !
Adore this air superiority camouflage scheme.
Hope you enjoy it!

References:
ospreypublishing.com..es-of-the-korean-war

britmodeller.com/for..an-war-camo-colours/

librarything.com/work/2110357

koreanwaronline.com/arms/RussianPilots.htm

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