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MiG-21MF - Egypt - 1973
Egyptian Air Force (EAF) - Ramadan War (1973)

Масштаб:
1:72
Статус:
Завершённые

As of the October War of 1973, except for very late deliveries of MiG-21MFs in early 1973, all Egyptian MiG-21s were locally painted at the Helwan factories in the early 1970s. It appears that car paint was used for this. Two different partially standardized camouflage patterns were developed and applied at Helwan:

#1 The camouflage with green or brown stripes on top of a sand colour (see my other Egyptian MiG-21):
MiG-21PFM - Egypt - 1973 | Project by Redicus (1:72)

#2 The famous and unique "Nile Camouflage" composed of three main colours: sand, grey-green (FS505310) and dark green (505056).

The Nile Camouflage was unique for each machine, with not two machines having the same pattern. Commonly, there were relatively thin green stripes separating the dark green from the sand background, but in some cases the colours were reversed, where the stripes were sand or even dark green instead.

My subject is the MiG-21MF number 8444 which is depicted in a colour profile in the "Arab MiGs, Volume 6" of Tom Cooper and David Nicolle. I accidentally managed to find a real photograph of number 8444 on the internet (see first picture in my album).

This machine is a veteran of the October War of 1973 and it is unknown if it actually survived the conflict.

Overall, all MiG-21s painted in the Nile Camouflage (and most likely all other Egyptian MiG-21s) maintained their wartime camouflage patterns until final withdrawal from service in the late 80s.

Состав проекта

Полные наборы
70142
MiG-21MF Fighter-Bomber ProfiPack
Eduard 1:72
70142 2018 Новые детали
Наборы деталировки и конверси
QB 72 597
Mikoyan-Gurevich
MiG-21 Fishbed - Radio Altitude Sensors (Late Version)
Quickboost 1:72
QB 72 597
Фигуры
F72051
Warsaw Pact Pilots (3 fig.)
CMK (Czech Master Kits) 1:72
F72051 2010 Новая разработка
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Фотоальбомы

22 изображения
MiG-21MF - Egypt - Nile Camouflage - 1973View album, image #10
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And the finished one! I realized after finishing the camouflage that the green stripes were initially too greyish so I h...
1:72 MiG-21 Fishbed - Radio Altitude Sensors (Late Version) (Quickboost QB 72 597)1:72 MiG-21MF Fighter-Bomber (Eduard 70142)1:72 Warsaw Pact Pilots (3 fig.) (CMK F72051)

Часть моей Коллекции

04. Soviet/Russian-made aircraft
Идеи 75×В работе 4×Завершённые 21×На паузе 2×Queued 2×
36. October (Ramadan/Yom Kippur) War - 1973
Идеи 8×В работе 1×Завершённые 8×Queued 2×
39. Arab - Israeli Air Wars (1948- )
Идеи 26×В работе 6×Завершённые 14×Queued 4×
84. Egyptian Air Force
Идеи 7×В работе 2×Завершённые 5×

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5 October 2021, 21:13

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