Just wondering if anyone has any additional info on this bird. Apparenty it’s a Mig-21 fuselage with a scaled down TU-144 delta wing on it.
Any kits of this bird out there? If not, I smell a 1/32 conversion!! [:D]
Yes Russia had a experimental mig 21 with tu-144 wings. It was to test the wing as supersonic speedsbefore building the 144. The mig fuse was changed also, wider and longer, an would make a challenging conversion. The best source for photos and drawings is the Areo Fax book on the MiG21 by Yefem Gordon or one called Soviet X-Planes.
Oh p.s. I took first place at the 2003 IPMS nationals in Oklahoma city with a 1/32 mig-21 F-13 ye6/3t conversion. check out the IPMS web site and go to the 2003 nationals section and you will see it under the1/32 conversions catagory. Good luck with your 144-21 conversion.
That plane is on my “to do” list also. The best plans and tips I have seen to convert this plane were from the pages of Fine Scale Modeler. Scale drawing and step by step convertion guide, a very good article. That is one of the reasons I have asked FSM to concider releasing a book of all the plan drawings that have been printed in the mag over the years. You would be suprised at some of the great line drawings that have been offered by FSM over the years.
As it happen, MiG was apparently not very enthusiastic about this project and the ‘Analog’ , a converted MiG-21S, only flew a few months (8 months in fact) before the prototype of the Tu-144…
I started converting a OEZ 1/48 MiG-21 into the Analog, but eventually lost interest… The AeroFax book has a 3-view drawings but there are a couple of mistakes, at least when you compare the drawings with the accompanying photos… The first MiG-21I crashed during tests and a second one was built with some modifications (hence the differences between the pics and the drawings); that’s the one preserved at the Monino Museum.
I’ve really got to find time and money to go to Monino… They still have the jet Ekranoplan, right? I keep seeing pictures of that.