Someone in here must know this,
Aircraft such as the Mig 21, 17, 19 are they NMF or painted, from alot of pictures I have seen of them sitting around they appear to be peeling(?)
I doubt they are a shiny aluminium so I am going to guess they are at least unpolished.
Any help would be appreciated.
Like many other aircraft, the post WW-II Migs come in many different flavors. Some were NMF, many others were painted. Paints run the gamut from basic silver to any color of the rainbow, one single color or several camouflage combinations. You have to get references for a particular plane, time and place to be accurate. [alien]
…but mostly they were unpainted and unpolished. The Reds considered cosmetic touches for bourgeois capitalists. Remember, even though they had Russian pilots flying in Korea, they were in Chinese machines, with their red paint applied here and there, and the North Koreans used lizard-type disruptive camo, probably because many of the North Korean pilots flew for the Japanese in WW II and copied it the idea from them.
TOM
I’ve noticed that MiG’s in foreign service recieved paint more often than in Russian units. Some in North Korea an North Vietnam had a tiger stripe scheme, maybe even middleeastern.