Mig-29 Fulcrum

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Does anyone know who makes a kit for the Mig-29 Fulcrum and what scales are available?

Thx
Shannon

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Monogram used to make a 1/48 kit if memory serves…

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There are quiet a few kits of the plane out, here are just a few:

Hasegawa 1/72 MiG-29 Fulcrum ‘Hopsten 40th Anniversary’
Hasegawa 1/72 Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum
Hasegawa 1/48 Mig-29 Fulcrum
Hasegawa 1/48 Mig-29 Fulcrum “Striji”
Hasegawa 1/72 Macross Zero: Mig-29
Pit-Road 1/700 MiG-29 Fulcrum
Tamiya 1/72 WB MiG-29 Fulcrum
Dragon 1/144 F-15E vs Mig-29
Fujimi 1/72 Mig-29 Russian/North Korea Air Forc…
Fujimi 1/72 Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum

There will be more offerings by these and other manufacturers.

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Revell/Germany also has a Mig-29 in 1/32 kit #04707. Got one sitting on the shelf along with a CAM cockpit detail set just waiting it’s turn to be built.

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Airfix have a MiG 29 in 1:72 - its a late mold 1990 ish and has had rave reviews. its OOP at present but not hard to find.

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Yessiree. It’s not the greatest kit and the fit is ‘eh’, but if all you want is something that looks like a MiG-29, it’ll do.

The only other decent 48th MiG-29’s out there are the Academy kits which are much nicer than Monogram’s but still not the greatest. They made a Mig-29A and a MiG-29UB. If you’re lookin’ to build a really nice 48th Fulcrum you can use the Academy kits and some resin & brass or good 'ole fashioned scratchbuilding. I wish Hasegawa would come out with a MiG-29 of their own in 48th. (The kit they currently market is actually Monogram’s.)

Speaking of reboxes… Tamiya’s 72nd MiG-29 is the Italeri kit, but it’s dang nice despite anything you hear about Italeri. I dunno how it fits, though, I don’t build little scale.

The Hasegawa 72nd kit is decent but suffers from a lack of accuracy. It’s a helluvalot better than Fujimi’s 72nd kit, though. When the MiG-29 was first seen fairly close up by western eyes in 1986 it seemed that Fujimi and Hasegawa were in a race to release the first kit of this bird. Fujimi won the race but the result was a somewhat poor representation of the Fulcrum. Hasegawa took a little more care and, at the time, theirs was the finest MiG-29 kit out there. It’s now starting to show it’s age and I personally wouldn’t build either, even if I did build little scale.

Revell had a 72nd MiG-29UB which was kinda okay. I dunno if they had a MiG-29A, though.

Uh…lessee… Oh yeah, the 32nd Revell. Nice model, I’ve built a couple of them and they go together fairly well. The only real bad point is the cockpit, not as much detail as you’d expect, but that’s why ___ (insert sacred holy entity of choice) invented resin!

Real little scale… The DML/Dragon 1/144 kits are okay, but there’s a much nicer kit out there; I just can’t think of who made it. LS maybe? I think Tsukuda made one too, but I’m even less in touch with real little scale than with little scale. [:p]

Anyhoo, there’s undoubtedly some others, like that Airfix kit…

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Thanks for your help guys.

I ordered the 1/48 Academy kit tonight.

Shannon

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There are Fulcrums built by Zvezda (Italeri, for sure), Eastern Express and Berkut in 1/72 scale, which are not very good, as I’ve read, but there are Revell’s MiG 29A (Germany reunion) and Condor’s MiG 29A &C in the same scale of which I would be delighted to know something more than the appearance of the box. I know that Condor’s MiG 31 is in some ways better than Zvezda’s.