Hello. I returned to the hobby after a loooong hiatus. Here is a recently (as in last night) completed Trumpeter 1/32 MiG-21 F-13. It’s my first time building a trumpeter (they didn’t exist when I was a teenager), first time building a 1/32 plane (didn’t have the money to buy one back then), and first time doing a natural metal finish.
The kit has excellent surface detail. The cockpit was also very good, although I elected to close it so it won’t ruin the profile of the plane. Fit was so-so but that’s ok with me, I don’t mind filling and sanding. My only complaints were the decals (horrible) and the instruction (only adequate color instructions). This Mig was built completely OOB, except the seatbelts were filed off and replaced with ones I made with trimmed masking tape.
Some panels were primed with of Mr. Surface 1200, some with gunze acrylic light grey. Preshading done with Gunze acrylic black. NMF was done with Alclad aluminum. I was gonna spray dark aluminum on certain panels to achieve tonal differences, then I ran out of money [B)] Since I wanted to replicate a worn and dirty look, I figured I would just cheap out on the 2nd bottle of alcld and just concentrated on weathering which was done mostly with a black acrylic wash.
Here are the pics. There’s still a lot of room for improvement, but generally I’m happy with the results. Critiqued welcomed.
Great job… the NMF is awesome. If anything to help you out I would suggest on some the panel lines where bits of your shading starts maybe mask it there so you have a little harder edge.
Great job on number one coming back… you havent lost a step.
Thank you everyone for your positive feedback. i’ve been away from the hobby for so long i might as well be a newcomer, and needed some reassurance for yall.
crockett, the canopy isn’t glued tight, and here’s a picture of the cockpit. it’s basically the kit cockpit sprayed with model master enamel interior green, black acrylic wash, then dry brush highlight.
