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Hello Gabor! I've seen some of your great comments and terrific photos on subject in main Eduards Mig-21 thread here on ARC, thank you for such valuable input. But I'm really curiously how do you plan to correct nose shape problem on MiG-21bis? Looks like if you just chop off forward 10.5mm(500mm/48, place where - as you noticed - nose shape starts differ on bis and MF ) nose portion and replace it with correct one you will get negative curvature break on sides of fuselage nose, which would be very hard to correct. Best regards, Maksim

Inquisitor, agree with you about perspective distortion on photos in my post, but on previous page I've made request about kit itself and no one answered, so it's was second ball ;-) And thanks for pointing out thread about kit manufacturers and accuracy, very interesting, especially Jennings comments, like he is reading my own thoughts about it :-D

wrong canopy :-) lol, please check this pics ;-) looks like real thing has bit different and much more smooth transition from spine to wing root

Hello! I guess many of us already have hasegawa kit, so I've small request to you guys ;-) I have some doubts about highlited areas they looks almost flat to my eye... So could someone draw some pencil lines like on this mig-29 and make few shots like this one Please!

Great reference pics, especially this :-) :-) :-) Thank you, ka3b!

Sorry for off-topic... kotey, please check this thread http://forums.airforce.ru/showthread.php?t=3476

CBREEZE, thanks! Looks like I've found stuff that you speaking about http://www.acrylicosvallejo.com/gb/primers-gb.html Right?

CBREEZE, you speaking about they GESSO TapaPoros(GESSO Undercoating)???

I've tried Mr. Resin Primer from Gunze and It's works pretty well, Tamiya's fine primers is OK too ;-)

Hello! Check pics in that thread http://forums.airforce.ru/showthread.php?t=3285&page=5 , maybe you will find something interesting.

Hello! I couldn't remember any modern investigations on subject published here in Russia in past few years, so maybe you should check Gordon, Rigmant book in Red Star serie, but I think because of nature of atomic blast, atomic bomb carrier couldn't wear dark colors, including gray.

Maybe I'm wrong, but looks like those drawings of usual flanker are from Polygon book, they have some general shape issues, but great details. Look for drawings from "Aviatsiya i Vremya" magazine, they catch shape of flanker, but have crude details, combine with Polygon drawings and this additional material http://forums.airforce.ru/showthread.php?t=2332 About Su-35: first production Su-35S built for Russian Air Force would appear near 2013, so accurate drawings would appear after that date, when some peoples could take measures of it freely, now all Su-35 aircrafts is a property of Sukhoi co

You never heard about GW? WOW! It's leading company in wargames world, has own line of modeling stuff, including very good for brush painting acrylic paints.

Yep, it's common problem with acrylics and tamiya's rattle can varnish, one of my fellows has used it on his already painted 1/16 scale figure with same results - DISASTER! TS-paints are very aggressive. If you like to use varnish from rattle cans, try to find products from Games Workshop or Army Painter brands, they should be friendly to acrylics, but they bit expensive.

another shot of same "blue 26" a/c http://forums.airforce.ru/showpost.php?p=6...mp;postcount=93

http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewto...532.html#185532 If in short, APP-46 was used on aircrafts produced till 15 production batch(changes were incorporated in 1982 or 1983), early built a/cs were upgraded to carry r-40s without pod, and that thing wasn't used for guidance, it's some kind of launch preparing device. I'm not sure, but I think it was somehow used for cooling r-40t guidance head...

Thank you 2.0_Alpha! ChernayaAkula was right, shame on me :-( Looks like on navy bird nose gear wheel well made in more accurate manner...

Hello! Does anybody already has M version? While my C kit was in route, M version appeared on LuckyModel site, so I'm thinking about buying second kit in navy version, BUT if sprues in both kits are same, I would rather build my kit as navy bird, so I'm interesting what the difference between those kits. On first sight only decals is different... Maksim PS Rafale is such small plane, even smaller then MiG-29, not speaking about huge Su-27 :-)

Hello! Try to decide for what purposes you would like to use vacforming machine, then think about machines size, because "size does matter" in this case ;-), for example, I've very simple machine, that was made from standart photofilm jar and piece of mesh from automobile stuff, some aluminium plates for holding of plastic, pair of paper clamps and few inches of isolation tape, its took only 30 minutes of my life, and that pretty small device done it's job perfectly, on other hand, I'm also have machine made from plywood and perforated plate, with top deck sized 5x5 inches, and it was used fo

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Hello! I've both canopys from P&J, ICM's -25PD and Zvezda's -25PU kits, so I could say that replacement parts just better than stock parts: all parts have very similar shape(to my eye in both kits flat part on canopys fixed part bit wider, sorry about rough description :-)), BUT P&J parts far more transparent than Zvezda's offering and have framing details missing on ICM's offering but they are not very crisp on canopys fixed part. Price on P&J replacements here in Russia $1.5 for -25P version and $2 for -25PU version. Still need photos? :-) Cheers! PS I'm also have KM-1M seats

Maybe I've missed something but here in Russia this wheels were always readely available, here some news http://forums.airforce.ru/showthread.php?t=250&page=2

PS Berkut, you've missed marvellous R-33s, they are light years ahead of Zvezda offering ;-)

About numbers mentioned earlier: this is thickness-to-chord ratio and it should be 3.7% for wing root, 4.1% for middle and 4.48% for tip. I'm not sure if the chord for root includes leading edge extension, but looks like it does. ICM kit results(thickness in mm/chord in mm=ratio): root with LEX 4.5 / 93 = 4.84% middle 3 / 55 = 5.45% tip 2 / 31 = 6.45% Right numbers for thickness should be 3.4mm, 2.3mm and 1.4mm, respectively. Yep, ICM wing is thick :-(

I've finded some numbers about thing thickness on real thing and check'em bit later... when R-33 rockets are installed you could hardly see them looks reealy good to me, you have already rescribed panel lines on wings, so why start from beginning? But decision is totally up to you ;-) please look your PMs