MiG-21B-141 Asymishbed (finished page 1)

Tophe · February 09, 2022, 12:17:26 PM

During these days without camera card, I have stopped the ongoing model (S-51D') but I have ordered from China another model: 1/144 model of MiG-21PF Fishbed by Mini Hobby Models, cheap! And I always receive these 1/144 kits I order this way (1 or 2 months after ordering).
My project is to make an asymmetric T-tail version MiG-21B-141:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/mig21pf-modif.jpg
+ http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/mig21pf-modif2.jpg
What is the technical advantage of this layout? Providing fun to the "manufacturer."
What is the military advantage of this layout? It does not work so this avoids anger from pacifists.

Tophe · February 10, 2022, 08:38:04 PM

Here is the source I ordered, to modify significantly...

= link https://i.imgur.com/Mbq65nL.jpg

Tophe · February 15, 2022, 03:52:45 AM

Quote from: Tophe on February 09, 2022, 12:17:26 PM
I always receive these 1/144 kits I order this way (1 or 2 months after ordering).

I have received this one just 6 days later! China seems next door from France! Or air transport, fast, would exist!

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5416_bed.jpg

Tophe · February 15, 2022, 03:57:24 AM

Here are the parts I am going to use. I forgot the nose one, that I removed from the sprues but that felt from the table (fortunately I have found it, not lost)...

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5421_bed.jpg

Tophe · February 15, 2022, 04:00:05 AM

First drops of glue, in urgency, not to loose the tiny canopy away...

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5427_bed.jpg

Tophe · February 15, 2022, 04:31:27 AM

When I drew the asymmetric 21B-141 project, I imagined that the nose would be in 3 (or 4) parts: 2 half cylinders, to be around the sharp radar cone (in 1 part or 2 halves). But this was a wrong guess: it is given as a single complex part, and I will have to change a little the shape after whif modification without too much work. $:-\$

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5416nos_bed.jpg

Tophe · February 15, 2022, 05:23:47 AM

Here is the updated project, without separate nose cone:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/mig21-modif3.jpg

Tophe · February 16, 2022, 08:01:56 AM

This bad nose had to become sharp, and I was afraid to need putty/sanding, but from the start, cutting the air intake plastic improved a little than sanding the plastic gave what I wanted, no need of putty!

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5428_bed.jpg

Tophe · February 19, 2022, 02:00:26 AM

I truncated the fuselage and... the jet part has not at all a round hole in the front (the way I expected).
So I will make it solid, round more or less, then put color as a black "hole" (fictive).
I added putty in that direction already.

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5437_bed.jpg