MiG-25 intake color

[RCarlson]

Were the intakes on the MiG-25 white? I have a set of Click2detail intakes for my ICM kit, but can not find a photo of the actual intakes to determine the color.

Thanks

[Deke]

[boom175]

Sand is optional....

[RCarlson]

Thanks. It's hard to tell from the photo, but I assume it's bare metal. Or sandblasted!

[ya-gabor]

It is plain, unpainted metal (what ever it is they made the intake inside from). Same as most other Russian jets of the time. On the MiG-21's it was unpainted aluminium but nothing shiny, it had a lot of dirt from the air deposited on it making it a fairly dirty looking metal. It is the same with the Foxbats that I have seen in Moscow, it is a base metal (only this time not aluminium), but fairly dirty all over(and this is not from the dust deposited in the past decades of standing there, as on the photo above).

Best regards

Gabor

Edited March 12, 2013 by ya-gabor

[RCarlson]

Thanks Gabor! That's what I thought, but wasn't 100% sure.

[Flankerman]

Don't forget to add that TTT bar in the middle - it's part of the water injection system IIRC.

Or - was it a flow straightener......

No..... water squirter I'm almos sure. <_<

Ken

[RCarlson]

Thanks Ken. I was playing around with making them with some scrap photo etch pieces I had lying around.