1/48 Academy MiG-21bis

by Vjekoslav Ranec

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  Croatia Independence Day 2006 

 

This Academy MF kit is in fact something between the "bis" and "MF" version. The kit is not so bad, but there are some mistakes... Some are big, and some are small... I decided to correct only the most visible ones.  The Croatian Air force uses only the "bis" version.

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I added an Aires cockpit on this model.  The vertical tail was reshaped with a piece of styrene and putty. The original is too round.  The pitot tube and centerline tank is from the OEZ kit.  Black box panel is fully scratched.

Croatian markings are in fact my own homemade decals.  For painting I used Model Master and Revell enamels.

Vjekoslav

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Photos and text © by Vjekoslav Ranec