Revell + Academy 1/144 - MiG-29 Fulcrum "Polish Air Force" - Completed -

Heres the MiG-29 Fulcrum i really like, a more modern version the Fulcrum in the cool light grey, dark grey camo of the Polish Air Force or Air Forces of the Polish Republic in their native tongue.

Nose i fell is still not right from certain angles but overall this one i like. Got some cool weapons on there from the Dragon kit, most of the cockpit is from the Academy kit with my favorite ejection seat done so far and an upgraded engines. Might be crazy enough to redo the the nose and make this into a small dio.



Top view show the camo pattern, also see quite abit of panel scribing i did.



All the very nice DML Dragon weapons with pylons from the same kit are very accurate. For some reason the underneath of the Revell kit is really detail?


Canopy not glue, so you can see the computer behind the ejection seat.



The more modern tail design using the DML Dragon kit i think, can't quite remember know, really tried to paint the engines in different shades of silver/chrome.



Polish decals came form a Attack MiG-21 kit i had in my stash for a while, got to remember to have the red square always to the right.



Now i need a good Su-27 Flanker, best Russian jet ever!
Ian

Revell + Academy 1/144 - MiG-29 Fulcrum " Soviet Air Force" - Completed

In all honesty this recently completed MiG-29 Fulcrum to me just does not look right, maybe its the lack of undershading, weathering or maybe i just got the colour wrong, that green is far too bright.

Followed building this model quite a few other modelers attempt at updating this kit but alot of mine just does not look right, especially the nose cone from certain angle. Wonder why there is a total lack of decent Russian / Soviet aircraft kits available, at least for the latter cool aircraft.

Put this one down to learn from ones mistakes,  decided to try and only build newer more accurate kit from now on like Revell, Platz, Sweet and maybe buy a few of the newer smaller company who are releasing some nice looking aircraft.



Favorite part of this build it the snow guard on behind the rear of the front landing gear wheel.

 



Got the Polish Fulcrum coming next which i think is a improvement on this one.
 Ian

Revell + Academy 1/144 - MiG-29 Fulcrum - Wip Built and painted.

Did put quite a bit of work into these 2 but all the photo i took are really bad, think because it was mostly white plastic. Used most of the parts from the revell kit and academy and only the pylon from the DML Dragon, will also be some weapons and landing gear from that.

The green/grey will be a Russian/Soviet early type Fulcrum while the Grey/Dark Grey will be a Polish later type after communism.

My favorite cockpit so far in in the the Polish MiG, decided to have the canopy open on that one now.

Still not sure if i got the nose cone correct.
Ian

1/144 MiG-29 - Wanting to build 1, bought 3

Been wanting to build a Russian aircraft and there seams to be a real lack of good kits for the old soviet jet. Bought these 3 MiG 29's from DML Dragon, Revell and Academy one after the other hoping to get a better kit but alas all are so-so.

Best of the bunch is the Revell kit will be using the entire fuselage from that, the Dragon in Italeri for the European market boxing and Academy are on about the same level of detail, was expecting the Dragon to be the best but strangely not as good as the other Dragon kits i have.
Going to be using the landing gear, tails and weapons from the Dragon, they are the best and the Dragon does have a great selection of weapons which both the Revell and Academy lack.
Lastly the Academy, i will be using the canopy and decals, might also us the wheels.

Turns out to be a good thing i bought all 3 so that i can build maybe 1 or 2 decent MiG's got another Revell on the way.

Ian