Summing up 2012!
Not a very good year modelling-wise with only three kits finished. The fact that two of them are very small doesn’t make it more impressive either!
So here we go, two MiG-21s from Eduard in 1/144 scale. One Slovak one in the “Milka”-scheme while the other one is an Egyptian one in an extremely tasty desert scheme with high-viz panels.
The third kit this year is Airfix’s new P-51D Mustang in 1/72 scale. Built as a J 26 from the Swedish Air Force right after WWII. There is a bit of a story regarding this particular aircraft: It was one of only two aircraft to get an experimental green camo scheme, the rest were left silver/natural metal as delivered. Weathering quite quickly and badly, it was assigned to the squadron’s most junior pilot who after a few flights realised that he had gotten the fastest Mustang in the Air Force. He carefully kept its grubby condition so that nobody with a higher rank would get the idea to lay his hands on it!
Happy New Year!
Magnus
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Craig Abrahamson said on December 29, 2012
Very well-done builds given the small scale(s). I like that Slovak scheme.
Korolev Vlad said on December 29, 2012
Nice jet fighters. And the interesting story of the Mustang.
Maxim Bylkin said on December 29, 2012
Swedish Mustang – never seen this! Looks very interesting!
Anders Isaksson said on December 30, 2012
Not bad at all for a full year, Magnus!
Very eye-catching schemes for those MiGs, looks like great little kits.
Magnus Fridsell said on December 30, 2012
Anders! For a year, it is actually rather bad I think 🙂
International friends: We had 150+ Mustangs in service, the first ones came in 1945. Some of these were already in Sweden after emergency landings and others were delivered by USAF pilots. Later on a further batch were bought from surplus stocks left in Germany. They were later sold on to Israel and Nicaragua.
Thanks for your comments!
Regards
Magnus
Jeff Bailey said on April 29, 2017
Great builds, Magnus! I like the paint schemes of both the Migs, but the Egyptian is superb. The P-51 is also excellent, but the history makes it even better!