MiG-20

[Aircav]

Bet if you did a 1/32 version it would really have them going at a model show.
She looks great          

[lancer]

I love it, she looks amazing. That is a hell of a build you've done there. Oh, like you I like Russian aircraft as well.

[gooberliberation]

 Kinda reminds me of the "new and upcoming" soviet fighters that can be found in copies of Janes from back in the early to mid 1950s. With all these migs and sukhois coming out, they had trouble figuring out which is which, and often featured illustrations with mixed up details.

I love it!

I take it by the even numbered designation and weapons load that the mig-20 is primarily a bomber? Have you figured out a NATO reporting name yet?

[BlackOps]

Completely FREAKIN' AWESOME!     Very cool idea

Beautifully executed I might add.

[Archibald]

 Kinda reminds me of the "new and upcoming" soviet fighters that can be found in copies of Janes from back in the early to mid 1950s. With all these migs and sukhois coming out, they had trouble figuring out which is which, and often featured illustrations with mixed up details.

I love it!

I take it by the even numbered designation and weapons load that the mig-20 is primarily a bomber? Have you figured out a NATO reporting name yet?

Great work! Congratulaions for this hybrid...
The transition from the MiG-19 to the MiG-21 (and the MiG-21 derivatives) give me headache. There was really a huge bunch of prototypes at the time (I-75 and the like).  

[gooberliberation]

Well, the swept-wing preMiG-21 prototype E-2A was designated the "Faceplate." Perhaps it could be reused for this one.

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Completely believeable. Just like the P-36/DB601 you posted last week. Great work, looking forward to seeing many more !

Ian

[elmayerle]

This reminds me of some of the early guesstimates (circa-1972) of what the Shenyang A-5 looked like.  An Italian magazine did a drawing of a Mig-19/-21 hybrid that looked quite similar.

[cthulhu77]

Here you can see warload, RATO and special devices in undercarriage, like in Su-7 BKL

Fantastic. Simply fantastic.  Love those Soviet craft designs, yours fits right in.

                greg

[ysi_maniac]

I take it by the even numbered designation and weapons load that the mig-20 is primarily a bomber? Have you figured out a NATO reporting name yet?

You are right: I envisaged it as a tactical biomber to fit the even number. But I did not think about the NATO reporting name.

Good point!
I INVITE ALL OF YOU TO FIND ONE.

In my opinion, "Faceplate" is not a good choice as it was a much lighter and sleeker plane: a pure fighter. By the way, I am working in a model of this plane, from the Airfix MiG-21 and the wings of a Heller MiG-19.

[wolfik]

full cool!  
any pictures made during the building?
peter

[ysi_maniac]

any pictures made during the building?

 
I did it some years ago, before I got a digital camera and before this forum existed.

Carlos.

[Archibald]

I take it by the even numbered designation and weapons load that the mig-20 is primarily a bomber? Have you figured out a NATO reporting name yet?

You are right: I envisaged it as a tactical biomber to fit the even number. But I did not think about the NATO reporting name.

Good point!
I INVITE ALL OF YOU TO FIND ONE.

In my opinion, "Faceplate" is not a good choice as it was a much lighter and sleeker plane: a pure fighter. By the way, I am working in a model of this plane, from the Airfix MiG-21 and the wings of a Heller MiG-19.

Ok let's go...
Finger
Fantail
Firelock
Feaster
Feather
Fiddle
Flake

B)  

[SPINNERS]

Cooler than cool.

[waynos]

Given its origins how about 'Fishfarm'  

Or, if you find that too trite, maybe 'Fingerbob'? or Fallback?

Beeeeeautiful model, it looks close to one of the prototypes in 'Russian Secret Projects - Fighters' but not too close to spoil its whiftasticness.