The Central Committee has “compelled” me to become General Secretary of this MiG group build, and I accept.
Rules are simple:
Any MiG in any scale, any national markings.
If you’ve already started a MiG, that’s fine.
Officially starts RIGHT NOW, EST, and ends April 30th, 2015 (yeah, that’s a BIG window, but I’m the World’s Slowest Model Builder).
I’m in it with either the Kitty Hawk MiG-25 (a kit as infamous as Stalin) or the Trumpeter 1/32 MiG-19. Because of life/work commitments, I probably won’t begin until sometime next month.
As this is my first time leading a GB, further rules/recommendations welcome.
Regards,
Comrade Porkbits
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Comrade Roll Call
Porkbits - KH MiG 25 or Trumpeter 1/32 MiG 19
Texgunner - ESCI/ERTL/AMT MiG-27 Flogger D
Modelcrazy aka Steve - Skarabey MiG 9
Theuns - Trumpeter 1/32 MiG 19
Hypertex - Tamiya 1/48 MiG 15bis
Dre - Trumpeter 1/32 MiG-29M
Bruce - 1/48 Great Wall MIG-29 or 1/48 Eduard MIG-21
Even though I have three stalled builds taunting me now, put me down for the 1/48 ESCI/ERTL/AMT MiG-27 Flogger D. It’s a pretty basic kit and if I can resist AMS, maybe I can knock this one out in time![:D]
Ah, man, I’ve been waiting for a GB like this. Problem is I’m committed to 5 GB’s right now and that may grow another three next year.
Do you have a cutoff on when someone can enter? I’m going to do my best to get through the other GB’s, then maybe get in on this one. I have several MIG’s in the stash and would love to dig one out!
Alright, I’m in, not sure what I’m billding yet. either a 1/48 Great Wall MIG-29 or a 1/48 Eduard MIG-21. I’ll let you know for sure once I start the build.
From the research I’ve done, it looks like they only make targets. Mikoyan-Gurevich may have an offshoot company, but I can’t find one if they do. Of course I’m not by any means a MiG expert.
Hypertex- shame that chrome has to go, it looks so good.
Wayne- as far as I know MiG OKB only makes aerial platforms to destroy ground targets and other aircraft, but I too am far from an expert on their products.
I stayed up late last night polishing out the usual Trumpeter pebble finish on the plastic, working on the wings and other control surfaces and then I started early this morning on the clean up work on the resin cockpit set… I need to do a little online sleuthing to find the right color paint for the pilot’s office.
Here’s what I’ve done thus far-
I think that I’ll order a MiG-17 as I have a donated Hobby Boss MiG-17 that a friend started, but hacked up in an effort to correct the kit’s inaccuracies. Since he included a couple of resin cockpits, i need a fresh kit to put one into… and I don’t want to try and fix his “work”.
Dre, I built the 1/48 Hobby Boss MiG-17F a couple years ago and was pretty underwhelmed by the kit. There were major fit issues with the fore and aft fuselage joint and also wing to fuselage areas. Just a word to the wise; be on the look-out for those when you tackle it.
Comrade Tex- I remember that MiG-17! Still a supersweet camo job.
The 1/32 Hobby Boss kit that I got from dude is… rough… even without his extra work. I just clicked on a Trumpeter kit to replace it. Probably not any better but it hasn’t been hacked up! (yet)
Here is the update to the MiG-9M. As I figured, the fit needs quite a bit of filling. There goes a lot of the detail, raised of course, but I’ll see if I can’t scribe some new detail in or something. [^o)]
