Hi everyone, I have a new hosting site (thanks Moses-Rob) for my pics and I’m dying to try it out. So, with no further ado, here goes:
Alright! Now that’s more like it!! This is sooo much better.
This is the ESCI 1/48 MiG -21. I built it right after Desert Storm and was inspired to do 'er up in Iraqi livery, circa the Iraq-Iran War in the '80s.
Aha one managed to get away!
Great job! The Mig21 is a real beauty of a plane ,
low slung and ruggged it really looks like a predator.
Actualy the one I looked over at RAAF Williamtown looked lile a flying drain pipe! The one thing that did impress me was that the pilots must have been very brave to strap their botties to the seats!
Got some good photos though.
Dai
Great job Tex, I’ve been tempted as of late to do some Iraqi aircraft… that was some good inspiration.
Good looking model Texgunner. Keep the pic’s coming.
nice job! nice camo.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed
Origin: USSR
Type: multi-role fighter
Max Speed: 1,203 kt / 1,385 mph
Max Range 1,160 km / 721 miles
Dimensions: span 7.15 m / 23 ft 5.5 in
length 15.76 m / 51 ft 8.5 in
height 4.10 m / 13 ft 5.4 in
Weight: empty 5,200 kg / 11,464 lb
max. take-off 22,925 lb /
10,400 kg
Powerplant: one 7500-kg (16,535-lb) afterburning thrust Tumanskii R-25 turbojet
Armament: one 23-mm GSh-23 two-barrel cannon with 200 rounds, plus four underwing pylons suitable for AA-2 ‘Atoll’ orAA-8 ‘Aphid’ AAMs, UV-16-57 rocket launchers, 500- or 250-kg (1,102- or 551-lb) bombs, S-24 240-mm(9.45-in) air-to-surface rockets, or drop tanks
Operators: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Congo, Republic of the, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Iraq, Laos, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mongolia, Nigeria, North Korea, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia
Thought I would add to this. Here is a pic of Dave Flitton of the Baghdad Hobby Shop.
Thanks to Dave for the pic.
Philip that is a great picture… thanks for sharing it. That’ll be one for his scrapbook…
tex, another great pic. please more.
joe
Great looking MIG, Tex.
The camo pattern is nice!
Regards, Dan
THe camo looks good real good. Good job.
Thank you very much(in my best Elvis voice). Gary