My new project is Trumpeter MiG 32 ml, with its many glaring defects corrected with the Aires resin - cockpit plus drive bays and inlet separator plates Zactomodels, very few pieces of kit Eduard exterior and lots of buildings zero!

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Drawings scaled-up to 1:32nd from a russian book "MiG 32 ML P MLD" by S. Burdin, published in Minsk, 1994, Pages 21- 28. Also of great help were "MiG-23 fighter variants MF,ML", bilingual Czech/English, from 4+ publications and "MiG-23/27 Flogger. Soviet Swing-Wing Fighter/Strike Arcraft", by Yefim Gordon and Keith Dexter, published by Aerofax.

The shape and length of the nose are wrong, as confirmed by placing the parts over 1:32 line drawings (the red lines represent the outline of the kit parts)

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On the left you can see the original MiG 23 con, shortened and MiG 29 a dry fit half the fuselage.

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Compare it to his new cone, the one modified from the MiG 29. It makes a huge difference

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The difference can de seen, thats a huge kit by the way

riveting and engraving detail

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The gear bays were first painted with a gloss enamel, mixed to match the Russian colors. The wires were done with Vallejo Model Color and sealed with Future. Flat acrylic paint, a combination of 95% grey (60% black + 40% white) and brown 5% was gassed with the airbrush, and then wiped off. A finishing touch, the wash was a mixture of ocher and black pigments.

wheel bay Aires

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The cockpit canopy now follows the fuselage spine outline instead of bulging out. It took a lot of filing to achieve this and then the lower frame had to be reconstructed with white styrene.

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