1/72 Hobbyboss Mig-15

frank2056 · August 08, 2009, 12:28:43 PM

It's a nice kit; don't know (or care) how accurate it is, but it looks more like a Mig-15 than the DML Mig-15/Jian-5 but obviously not as fiddly as the "gold standard" KP Mig-15.

I don't want to build it as a Chinese Borg or Russian or any other standard operator. Any suggestions on colors or nationalities?

I'm leaning towards a full or partial NMF (maybe just the undersides in metal) but other than that, I'm drawing a blank. Literally. All I see is a Mig with aluminum underside and no colors or markings. Help a brother out with some ideas?

Frank

Barry Krell · August 08, 2009, 12:51:29 PM

The RAF had one supposedly. Luftwaffe? If the Germans had captured the RR Nene and adapted it to a Ta 183? Indian?

Aircav · August 08, 2009, 12:56:26 PM

What about a Japanese version captured from the Chinese

Geoff · August 08, 2009, 01:10:28 PM

Spanish Republican with the red/yellow/purple roundels.
Italian AMI

thedarkmaster · August 08, 2009, 01:11:18 PM

How about one from an Italy that went comunist shortly after WWII, or how about A peoples republis of Persia on the same premis, and finally France that fell to communists after the 1946 civil war

GTX · August 08, 2009, 01:54:49 PM

May I suggest you look here.

regards,

Greg

lancer · August 09, 2009, 05:56:18 AM

I agree with the Italian version - Sand and spinach cammo scheme would look killer!!

Geoff · August 09, 2009, 06:04:45 AM

Quote from: lancer on August 09, 2009, 05:56:18 AM
I agree with the Italian version - Sand and spinach cammo scheme would look killer!!

Yep, seconded!

Captain Canada · August 09, 2009, 09:35:54 AM

I was drawing a blank there.....but now I'm thirding the Italian job !

The Rat · August 09, 2009, 09:45:35 AM

A united ROKAF markings circa 1956, after winning the war the south impressed captured ones into service.

frank2056 · August 10, 2009, 08:12:23 PM

I'll have to think about the sand and spinach Italian Mig-15. Although some of the Mig-15s that Greg posted look great!

JayBee · August 10, 2009, 11:33:17 PM

Russian Aggressor squadron in USAF style SEA camoflage.

The Rat · August 11, 2009, 08:42:40 AM

Quote from: JayBee on August 10, 2009, 11:33:17 PM
Russian Aggressor squadron in USAF style SEA camoflage.

Oooooh, me likey!

frank2056 · October 03, 2009, 07:41:21 PM

I finally finished this kit! It's not a bad model; it went together well and it's nicely detailed where it counts. There are some minor - but easily fixed accuracy issues. My problem was a case of the Mehs; it was very, very difficult to stay motivated and finish this model. I just couldn't get into any of the finishes. I tried an Italian squiggle camo; I did the squiggles with a brown pencil, then later with a brush, but I wasn't happy with the results. Jeff's link to MiG - A Canadian Success Story! had a profile that I liked - Black Op's Honduran MiG:

I used that as an inspiration for my Honduran MiG-15:

I should have taken a picture from the port side, to match Black Op's profile...

The changes to the kit involved modifying the nose gear to more accurately portray a MiG-15 loaded nose gear. I found an Eduard PE set for a 1/48 MiG-15, so i copied the artwork, scaled it down to 1/72 and printed off some of the instrument panels and the seat belts on paper. That came out OK, although you can barely see anything through the canopy. The gunsight is a piece of clear sprue from the kit, cut to shape. The antenna wire is a nylon string pulled from one of my wife's old nylon stockings.

I used a canopy mask made just for this kit, and it really helped, especially since the framework around the windscreen wasn't visible on the kit's canopy. Weathering was done with sepia ink and some Tamiya powders.

The decals are home made, and instead of my ALPS, I used my color laser printer and printed the decals on white decal paper for the color decals and clear for the lettering. The bort # is the date I finished most of the kit 2009-09. The port wing national markings wrap around the wing, similar to a Honduran Corsair. The tail flash was a royal pain in the exhaust pipe - I printed 8 copies and I destroyed 7 before I got the decal to sit where I wanted it. It doesn't quite fit the rudder, but that's a problem for the Hondurans, not me. I'm done with this puppy!

Frank

Allan · October 03, 2009, 09:10:59 PM

Lovely design, the MIG 15, and I think the reason why is the way the tailplanes are high up the tail fin. I with the Americans did that with the Sabre.
I'm with Aircav on this---go Japanese with a number on the fus rising sun and some colorful unit markings.
Allan in Canberra