The last time I posted an update was on April 4th. My apologies. While I have been building on the MiG, I haven’t posted an update. The model has been primed and the flaws revealed have been fixed. I have begun painting the underside blue. I preshaded and then applied a light base coat and a highlight coat. Here is where it stands.
Underside blue
Guys, fair warning. I have fallen down the rabbit hole on the new Airfix MiG-17. I apologize, but a lot of MiG-17 posts are coming, starting with a deep, deep dive on the 400L drop tanks. Feel free to mute this if it gets too obnoxious.
The MiG is ready for primer. However, before that could happen I needed to paint the canopy frames Alclad Dull Aluminium so that you’d see that as the inside frame color. Wiled I was at it, I sprayed a bit of Dull Aluminum in the intake tunnel to cover some minor touch up and also painted the underside of the tail under the burner can. I also assembled the two drop tanks. While I am not going to use them on this model, I know this isn’t the last Airfix MiG-17 I’ll be building and most of them carried the wing tanks, so this will get me ahead of the game in the future. Also, I want to use the opportunity to do a little research and see what I can do to improve the kit parts.
I am just going to “drop” these pictures here for later reference.
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It amazes me how thoroughly the British intelligence serves had been penetrated during the cold war. Story here.
Work on the MiG has been progressing. Finally got it to the point where she is ready for priming. Here is where she sits.
Ready for priming
Kalinin K-7 We modelers are truly living in an incredible time. Info on the real aircraft here.
This is a cool story. Sadly, the young don’t have any knowledge of the aspects of the Cold War, such as this.
