Tag: MiG 15

• MiG 15 – Part Eight – Is Ready For Uszhitmi Air Show

  

  The Uszhitmi Air Show has always been the premier display of Soviet – and laterally Russian – air power since the early 20’s. Starting as it did with flying tractors and merry peasant dances on the tarmac between crashes, it progressed to formation passes made the giant creations of the 30’s that were ever larger…

  Dick Stein

  June 13, 2019

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, Stein’s Air World, Uncategorized

  MiG 15, Stein’s Air World, Uszhitmi, Zvezda

• MiG 15 – Part Seven – Supercheap To The Rescue

  

  Do you remember my series of tests done to find out which acrylics, enamels, and lacquers would spray best? And the subsequent quest for clear coatings that would let me do decals and then protect the models? Well I looked out my sample tablets today and reassessed them. The local version of a floor polish…

  Dick Stein

  June 12, 2019

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, finances, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, subassembly, Uncategorized

  acrylic lacquer, decal base, MiG 15, Supercheap Auto

• MiG 15 – Part Six – Was That The Mr. Whippy Van?

  

  And was it playing The Internationale? I don’t normally pay attention to conspiracy theories, but there seems something suspicious about this. Normally we get soft serve, sundaes, and double cones with a Flake bar stuck in the middle. This seems to be a new one… I wonder what flavour –  Borscht? Caviar? Fish canned in…

  Dick Stein

  June 10, 2019

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Russian models, Scale Models, Workshop

  Little Workshop, MiG 15, model holding, paint job

• MiG 15 – Part Three – You Have Chosen Wisely, Grasshopper

  

  The MiG 15 is somewhat of an iconic aircraft – albeit Soviet, derived from German research. It lasted well after contemporary Meteors and Sabres were shuffled off to client nations and thence to museums. Indeed aircraft of this era are now only found as museum exhibits – flying or otherwise. Oh, and a Canadian private…

  Dick Stein

  June 7, 2019

  1:72 scale, Model Airplane, research, Russian models, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  Cold War, MiG 15, museum jets

• MiG 15 – Part Two – Bring On The Clowns, Popov

  

  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…

  Dick Stein

  June 6, 2019

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, research, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  aerobatic plane, MiG 15, Soviet

• MiG 15 – Part One – Plunging Off The Cliff

  

  Every one who leaps off the edge of a cliff in the face of a stiff breeze wearing a set of nylon wings exhibits a degree of faith and hope…and wishes sincerely for charity on the way down. They have to risk something valuable…ie their neck…to get a benefit. I am going to have to…

  Dick Stein

  June 5, 2019

  1:72 scale, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  MiG 15, paint experiments, Soviet fighter