First, I want to start off by describing the model that I will be building. Red Star was a small model company in England that used four molds that were made by Frog around 1976. That year Frog folded and was not able to release their newer kits. While most of their molds went to Novo and Matchbox/Revell, the newer molds that was not released in 1976 were released later on by Red Star in 1984. Red Star no longer exist but their four molds are currently used by EMHAR and can buy their kits at a decent price.

The Mig-3 kit is very basic with very fine raised lines, but the overall shape looks accurate. It comes with decent looking decals but for this build I will be using decals with Romanian markings. This is my second Red Star build, in 2020 I built their Lagg 3 and that was also a captured Russian plane but with Finnish markings.

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Not much going on in the cockpit so I spiffed up the sidewalls a little, added some styrene and sprue behind the seat to block the empty rear look into the fuselage and reworked the belly's radiator a little not shown in these shots. To get the floor to stay put inside the fuselage I had to be a little creative to glue some pieces to support this area.

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Very unusual kit and version you chose there Bob. I never heard of that brand before, so I’m keeping an eye on your work if you don’t mind

Yes Pedro @holzhamer and Lis @lis, I can wait to see this finished in this scheme. So far my last three Romanian builds I like the way on how the colors in the insignias and yellow stripes and tips made the plane look very attractive.

Another great entry, my friend @v1pro!
Looking forward to it!
The kit looks to be the 1984 rebox of the 1977 FROG kit, my friend @holzhamer.

Hi Spiros @fiveten. Yes a FROG kit that was never in a FROG box. I remember when these kits first came out, I bought the Lagg 3.

I did not do much work on the Mig-3 this week, but I am almost done sanding and smoothing out the seams and wing roots area. Once I have this done, I will start the painting process.

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Great improvement, Bob @v1pro
Not my favorite part of modelling but it is an important step to come to a nice end result.