1/32 Trumpeter MiG-21

Gallery Article by Shawn "phantom" Weiler on May 10 2016

 

      

This is a model I do not normally build. Its not a Phantom but I suppose it WAS one of the Phantoms main opponents. I had the kit from a recent trade so I might as well build it.

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The Trumpeter kit is nice. I can not vouch for authenticity but it seems well detailed. The cockpit certainly seems busy enough. The hardest part was finding a bottle of Russian interior blue green. Went to the 4 stores within an hours drive and no-one had the stuff. Lucky I had a dried up bottle from around 10 plus years ago to mix the colours. Looks right to me.

I used some long out of production Cutting Edge decals that came with the kit to do up a North Vietnamese airframe from the late 60s/ early 70s. Something different that looks nice on the shelf.

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Photos and text © by Shawn "phantom" Weiler