The Little World

Well, I stared and stared at the colour call-out and decal sheet for the MiG 15 and just couldn’t get excited.

The entire outside of the airplane was aluminium colour – with only a little red or blue on a tail or nose. I am not against aluminium colour per se but I’ve recently built quite a few other aircraft with this finish and I want to use the MiG as an experiment for other colours. So it was on to the net, and fortunately the old Soviets delivered – a 1954 air show plane in brilliant colours. Here’s a screen grab of it:

Here is another screen grab of one preserved in a museum somewhere in Germany.

Other sources show red stars on the underside of the pale blue wings – and as the kit has eight stars, I will put all eight on. It’s not a hard scheme to mask, and I can find out whether the floor polish coating that everyone advocates actually works. If it is horrible, I can spray blast it off with methylated spirits and do a scruffy Egyptian Air Force MiG instead.

Always leave yourself a discreet path to the exit.

If, on the other hand, it is successful, I will have a colourful companion to the Canadair Sabre in RCAF aerobatic team colours of the same period.