Mig-23 MLA. 1/32 trumpeter (red-39)

Started by millo lucian · 44 ≡ · ↻ 9 years ago
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    millo lucian said 9 years, 10 months ago:

    Yet another thing that the Trumpeter guys have done wrong is the shape of the jet intakes, symmetrical, when the top corner should have been more rounded...

    No big deal really, cut offending pieces:

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    millo lucian said 9 years, 10 months ago:

    add thick, triangular sections of styrene:

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    millo lucian said 9 years, 10 months ago:

    Family MiG 23 is the most complex landing on aircraft of all timpurile.Kit does not miserably in rendering this complexity and all angles are wrong. In ML gear front is too wide, so soil orientation is nothing like it should be (MF version is even worse). had to address the problems and I finished rebuilding the entire assembly from the wheels up.
    You can see here I built a simple bracket, which shows how the aircraft should stand their ground.

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    millo lucian said 9 years, 10 months ago:

    For the correct ground stance the front landing leg in 1:32nd should extend to 42 millimeters from the bottom of the fuselage (as opposed to 47 provided by the kit), while the lowest point of the burner can should be at 26 millimeters from the ground. The legs as provided in the kit are in the extended position as if the aircraft would be airborne, coming in for a landing.

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    Richard Mcstay said 9 years, 10 months ago:

    This is looking amazing so far mate!

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    millo lucian said 9 years, 10 months ago:

    The kit has the rubber that is beautifully detailed but sadly are too thick. The hub has shallow details for the front, while the main ones are fictitious.
    They had to be replaced.
    The front wheels: to the left is the accurate version of the hub as opposed to what is provided in the kit. The shallow details of the kit were improved by making the necessary cutouts in one hub and overlapping them over another that was left as is. A styrene circle was then added.

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    millo lucian said 9 years, 10 months ago:

    For the tires a 1:48th Hasegawa F-4 Phantom main wheel was used, with the hub removed.

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    millo lucian said 9 years, 10 months ago:

    The main wheels were replicated from a Revell MiG 29A wheel copy heavily modified

    from left to right:

    1. wheel trumpeter
    2. wheel Revell
    3. wheel modified Revell
    4. wheel finals

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    millo lucian said 9 years, 10 months ago:

    The end result would look like this:

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    millo lucian said 9 years, 10 months ago:

    For the correct ground stance the front landing leg in 1:32nd should extend to 42 millimeters from the bottom of the fuselage (as opposed to 47 provided by the kit), while the lowest point of the burner can should be at 26 millimeters from the ground. The legs as provided in the kit are in the extended position as if the aircraft would be airborne, coming in for a landing.

    The front leg was totally reconstructed, the only kit parts used were the rotation actuator and axle beam assembly.

    The axle beam assembly being improved with styrene and the scissors taken from the Trumpeter MiG 29 (the kit has them overly simplified):

    Edit: the metal reinforcing part shows the extended position, the angle is wrong.

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    millo lucian said 9 years, 10 months ago:

    Here you can see the main axle being fabricated from a missile body:

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    millo lucian said 9 years, 9 months ago:

    The main gear is provided in two versions, both wrong, both too extended: for the ML and for the MF even worse, protrudes to the rear by one third , it cannot be retracted into the bay. The landing gear as is provided is simply unacceptable.

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    millo lucian said 9 years, 9 months ago:

    The main gear has two components that need to be modified so that the aircraft sits right. 5 (five) millimeters need to be removed from the axle beam assembly and the piston that actuates the retraction/extension of the gear should be lengthened by 4 millimeters. The gear legs were then improved.

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    millo lucian said 9 years, 9 months ago:

    The parts were then primed.

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    Rob Pollock said 9 years, 9 months ago:

    Russian jets in this scale are always impressive. Although there's always criticism surrounding Trumpeter with accuracy for some of these subjects, careful work, such as yours, brings out the best in these aircraft. Very nice indeed.

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