Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound

Dave Flitton Watching!!

Dimitris Veletas to tsimpises kai esy san mikro paidi xaxaxaxa

Petr Martinek

Spanjaard up to the usual standards Christian. a pleasure to contemplate, and ... some healthy envy for the great results

Cristian Bordina FANTASTIC AS ALWAYS !!!

Glenn . Very nice work!

Eelco Gregoire Impressive built! Looks great.

Christian Ristits You make me feel proud my friends, many thanks!

Scott Dutton Beautiful job, well done

Erik Leijdens Impressive build!!

Arash Zakeri Nice

Clifford Keesler Watching!!!! I think you build more than I do. LOL.

Michael Phillips Haha, I do build a lot! But many of these projects are just plans for the future. If you look in the title of this project, it starts with #48. So the AMK MiG-31 will be my 48th build... I am currently building #17 (AMK Kfir). So at about 3 weeks per build, I won't get to this one for well over a year, unless I move it up in the queue.

Clifford Keesler Totally amazing job !

Sebastijan Videc thank you, guys. Romain - vvsmodelling.com/2016/03/17/mikoyan-mig-31bm-foxhound/

gorbygould That is stunning. A1 paint job.

Roberto Rocat Nice beast. Well done.

Romain Flechon Thanks seb!
Im currently building both bsm and b at once. Your paintjob will be inspiring for sure.

Marc A. AWESOME!!! super clean job. Details everywhere, nice work Sebastijan!!!

Glenn . Very impressive

Marek Swiderski I am impressed beautifully done model.

arne vd burg Veel te groot jo ????

Erik Leijdens Weet ik maar toch mokkem

Kees Kleijwegt Mooie kit, kan je inderdaad wel een vierkante meter voor reserveren

Melf Boyens Thanks Stefan

Melf Boyens Cortex , I primed the bird with Alclad grey primer, then as basic colour Vallejo Acrylic grey 128, afterwards Alclad clear coat. Then I used Enamel panel line from Tamiya in dark brown. When everything was dry I used ca. 20 ear cotton pads, soaked in fuel lighter, to swipe over the panel lines. The "dirty" cottons I used to swipe over the bigger areas so that a "used" image was created. Is not really a wash , I recognised that removing the overstays from the Tamiya with ear cotton is very difficult without traces of the enamel spreading over the wing and hull. Can anyone tell me if it is better to remove the overstay immediately or when dry with ear pads and fuel lighter? I some sort of did it in-between, not really dry ,but also not really wet on the panel lines.

Cortex very informative I appreciate this, thanks!

Holger Kranich When we talk about an enamel wash on a acrylic surface - I like to use kitchen roll to wipe the excess wash away. i use oils and lighter fluid. Apply the wash with a brush and let the cappilary Action do most of the work. When the lighter fluid is freshly vaporized it take a sheet of kitchen roll and soak it smoothly with lighter fluid and then i wipe away the rest of the wash in direction of flight. That works perfect to me. Kitchen roll works better to me because Cotton ear pads remove more wash from the panellines.

Holger Kranich But preparation is the key to a nice wash. Doesnt matters if you use glossy varnish or future or pledge or whatever - it must be as glossy as possible. Thats the only way the capillary Action can do its work.

soheil moghisi Very nice.

Melf Boyens Thanks for the info Holger, do you let the Enamel Wash fully dry or do you Remote the overstays when they are still wet? I guess i have to sign myself in for the Wangerooge Meeting to practice my "shoulder view" on your Skills

Melf Boyens Thanks Soheil

Kerry Cox Christian, I tell the truth mate, and all your builds have got a wonderful amount of attention given to them and they are all a delight to look at.

Cristian Bordina Really wonderful Christian, as always

Michael Phillips That is absolutely stunning Christian! That is a real beauty... All of your builds have been fantastic, but I think this one is your best yet!!!

Christian Ristits Please mates, you make me ashamed! I also think its one of my best builds that I ever made...the kit is really great and everything fits together so good!

Kerry Cox Nothing to be ashamed of Christian, Embarrassed maybe by all our praise, but your most deserving of all we have said mate.
A great touch.

Christian Ristits Thanks again Kerry for your words!

Bernhard Pethe Wow, !!! Das sieht alles sehr gut aus. Ich bin schon gespannt auf die "Roll out" Bilder.

Kerry Cox

Bart Goesaert will try to remember this tip...but the result looks nice in the pics shown...

Selman Yarar I've learned what the problem was. The parts should click-in but as these locations were painted, even the thinnest paint layer prevented them to fit. So don't paint the joining parts as they will be hidden inside. Strange that this is made so extremely tight!!!

Bart Goesaert don't think it's strange, otherwise there would be complaints about small gaps end steps that shouldn't be there.... you can't make it good both way's...

Selman Yarar true

Christian Ristits Very well done Selman! And thank you for the hints, I will keep them in mind!

Selman Yarar At least there should be a remark on the instructions to avoid painting at those places...

Tahir Özcivan Congratulations Selman. I know that it was a tiring project but the result is quite satisfactory. Very well ddone.

James C Very cool!

Bart Goesaert high on my wishlist, but at the moment trying to stop buying new kits... Model looks very good, and is it also possible to post a pic of the different versions? Just to know wether the bird from the MAKS airshow 1999 is included: [img1]

Sebastijan Videc Hey guys! I have already started building this kit and it is simply amazing! Check here: vvsmodelling.com/2015/11/24/mig-31bm-pt-1/

Gary; the blue outline in the red stars in in use since around 2010 I believe.
Bart: The parts included in the box enable you to build either BM or BSM version - these are updated 'Foxhound' models with better avionics and most notable exterior difference - 4 short underwing pylons that can carry either R-73 or R-77 missiles, compared to the larger single pylon on earlier versions. AMK plans to release the initial version in a few months (as well as MiG-25 by the end of 2016!)

Gary Thanks!! I had no idea it had changed. Gary

Thomas Mayer Sebastijan: thanks for the WIP link! Watching...

Mario Krijan Sebastijane i moj putuje iz Belgije, točnije 4 komada, za nas nekoliko

Sebastijan Videc

Christian Borchmann-Backhaus Squeezed out a little money out of my paypal account to help santa to bring this kit to me

Sven Doe very nice and intressting Project... I take a seat and watch

Graham Holmes Wooo Hooo, in the stash...

I think you should make one of those missiles and put it on a cart and enter that in a show.

Tom DeMichael hahaha. that would be something else.

Christian Ristits Cool! I ordered mine yesterday...cant wait to hold such an excellent kit in my hands!

Tom DeMichael It really is exceptional.

Choppa Nutta some impressive moldings, this sprue looks like six piece mold !!!
Good looking kit

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Tom DeMichael yup, can't wait to see how the fit is.

Melf Boyens Excellent build!

Bart Goesaert wow, I've thought this was the larger one.
Recently bought their Mig-25, too bad they didn't add any cockpit detail as with their other 1:144 kits...

Mike Grant That's really nice small-scale work Marco. I like the presentation too, that base is excellent

Guido Haesevoets impressive work on this little one!!

Marco Preto Thank you! The base was made out of balsa and 3mm MDF, using Noy's Miniatures PAG-14 base. To cut down on the glossiness of Noy's print (mainly around the darker colours), I airbrushed 2 coats of Vallejo's Matt Varnish. For the scale I think it results nicely.

Björn Leichsenring Great built.

Stefan Schacht Well done!

Martin W Awesome Tom. I hope you like it.

Tom DeMichael i have no doubt i will! i just need to get my hands on one first! I have it pre-ordered!

Martin W Where from? Most places have them now. If you're struggling we have an agreement with Sincere Hobby. Look them up. Excellent service and they ship the same day. They have the kits in stock.

Tom DeMichael i'm getting it from a hobby store i visit, should be in soon i'll pick it up when i go there next (february)

Graham Holmes Tom, you can move this to your stash. It is in my possession.

Tom DeMichael Thanks graham!

Martin W ? How? It is not yet released.

Nikola Rađenović It's called the power of will!

Martin W lol