"What if"
Inspired by a news article...
The year is 2015, Pablo
Escobar III rose to power and united the South American drug families.
By 2018 the cartels are tired of their delivery planes being shot down
and processing plants being bombed out by government agencies. To
safeguard their "assets" the cartels went shopping for the
best weapons drug money can buy and the result.... the MiG 37.
For many years the
purchase of MiG 37 evaded intelligence services. The MiG was stripped
down to parts and imported as 1:1 scale aircraft model and reassembled
in the tropical jungle of South America. It is not until all 36 of MiG
37 are fully operational when it was finally spotted in ARC Earth's
satellite photo by a rivet counting (and tree counting) modeler.
Despite the satellite
photo the intelligence community was reluctant to confirm the new
threat until several controversial shoot down of government anti-drug
aircraft. By 2025, details surfaced about the cartel's new
stealth fighter. Apart from the stealthy airframe, the aircraft
is coated in colored Radar Absorbing Material developed by "Hambro
Paint" (Note: Hambro Paint Inc was acquired by the cartels
through nominees as part of their 'legitimate' business).
The cartel MiG-37 adopted
Colombian jungle camo developed by former IPMS/Antioquia Master Class
modeler which blends perfectly into the tropical jungle. Apart from
the Bu No there are no other distinguishing markings to link the
aircraft to the cartel.
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Armed with stealthy
AA-22 Archangel Advance high off boresight missile the MiG
37 achieved 13 kills in the first 8 months of operation without any
losses. Plans are underway to upgrade the avionics to enable use of
500lb laser guided stealth bombs.
This is the Italeri
kit built out of box. I built it last minute in order to make silly week.
The
fit is good and no putty was used. This was airbrushed free hand with whatever
Gunze colors I have off hand.
David
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