New Omega Resin

NARSES2 · August 05, 2006, 01:28:19 AM

Not my period but nice looking airaplane

Chris

YE-8

Jennings · August 05, 2006, 05:22:36 AM

One of the coolest looking of all Russian fighters IMHO. Had it contintued, I think it would have been a real killer airplane.

Somebody did a 1/48 conversion of the Academy MiG-21PF kit on ARC a few years back.

J

lancer · August 05, 2006, 07:50:57 AM

YES!!!!! Now I don't have to screw up any kits trying, in vain, to scratch build one

Captain Canada · August 05, 2006, 08:40:42 AM

Wow, is that thing ever sexy !

Hubba hubba........

nev · August 05, 2006, 08:48:59 AM

wow, its got the whole retro/5th gen fighter look going on

Any more info on this plane?

GTX · August 05, 2006, 12:45:53 PM

Here are some more pics of the real thing - for those not in the know, it was actually a MiG-21 development intended to carry a larger radar. Look here for more info.

And also a link to the 1/48 scale model built by Jan Mikes and shown on ARC: http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Fea1...ikes/fea917.htm

Regards,

Greg

Madoc · August 05, 2006, 07:14:46 PM

Folks,

That's a smart lookin' machine there - but that's also a mighty expensive bit of resin! 45.99GBP? That's almost $90USD! For but wee 1/72nd scale bird that's a lot of cash for that small an amount of resin!

Madoc

Son of Damian · August 05, 2006, 07:39:54 PM

If somebody is willing to shovel out the cash they could possibly use it in a couple whiffs. Two that pop into my head are the Chengdu J-7MF whichs is a Chinese project for there J-7(Mig-21) that looks an awful lot like the YE-8, flew back in 2001 I believe.

And the Nanchang Q-6, a reverse-engineered Mig-23 with a chin intake, which you can read about here.