Bernd! I'm a traditionalist - I always do my painting in this order 🙂 !

Scramble!

Decals are as good as everything else on these kits...

...as long as the printing is in register 🙂 ! I filed a case with Eduard yesterday and got an email back this morning that a new decal sheet is in the mail 🙂 ! The Finish ones weren't affected.

For those of you who can't get enough of the Bulgarian MiGs, here is a link to photographer Anton Balakchiev's MiG gallery, I plan on doing "243" and will thus need to cut masks for the number since that aircraft is not catered for on the Eduard decal sheet.

Regards

Magnus

Eduards customer care is very good, should be no problem, beside this, looks good !
Always liked the finish MiGs, i guess mine will come in 1/72 or 48

The art of "Micro Modelling" !looks great.
A nice MiG-21 will be very nice and i hope that Eduard will downscale their 1/48 kits.
Revell will re release the MiG-21 F-13, not a bad kit.

Simon and Bernd! Thanks 🙂 ! And by the way Bernd: there will probably be 1/72 MiGs from Eduard during 2016!

Sorry for being absent this week but too much work and some modelling related stuff as well that doesn't affect the plastic really...

For some reason I got the idea that I really wanted to do MiG 243 and not 114 (the one that comes in the box) and this of course meant trouble... After a few (well, about two evenings of modelling time went into that) experiments trying to cut my own mask I realised that they are too small, I can't do it my usual way.

Since I have seen Mal Mayfield´s masks in action and realised that he actually can do them in very small sizes, this could maybe be one way out of my dilemma. So after an hour or so of work in Pro/E using a photo as a backdrop I had a DXF-file ready to send, after him asking nicely if he wanted to help me 🙂 !

This is what my original artwork looked like, Mal wasn't very impressed by some of my attempts at being clever so what I get back might be configured a bit differently 🙂 ... Note that they are horrendously small, the numerals are 4 mm high... Since the original decals were bad, I did include a set of roundels as well.

So now I'm just waiting for the mail pigeon to arrive, spending my time sanding down Atoll fins and contemplating the possibility to convert two of them into Aphids...

Regards

Magnus

Looks spot on to me Magnus. Excellent little Mig 🙂

The remaining MiG has been on the back burner for the better part of a year but with the arrival of masks and a pair of Aphids everything is set for the final chapter... Another interference has been a rather bad armour trip but now that one is back in its box for the time being!

My original idea was to convert the kit supplied Atolls into Aphids but I quickly gave up on that: it is too small to work with the stuff even for me! A few days ago, for some reason I googled "1/144 Aphid" and it turned out that someone actually makes a set! Enter the scene for Shelf Oddity from Poland. In 144-scale they seem to have focused on armament, for the ship builders there are a selection of even smaller stuff that will probably land you in the asylum...

For good measure, I ordered a set of Atoll/Sidewinders as well. They look beautifully made with CNC-machined missile bodies and finely etched fins. And included is the ever-important jig for setting the fins square!

Regards

Magnus

Wow! You really have good eyes! Ilike Your build very much, and the result is great! Those rockets in 1:144 is really too much :O