Tag: MiG

• MiG 17 – Part Four- The A-Team Moment

  

  I love it when a plan comes together… The Egyptian MiG 17 sitting at Schmattarim Museum Is not the same as the one at Hatzerim Museum. Not at all. There is no Arabic writing on the nose. The wheels are still Soviet Green*. And it has not totally faded out in the Negev sun. But…

  Dick Stein

  July 7, 2021

  1:72 scale, Model Airplane, Museums, Painting, research, Russian models, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, Tabletop Photography

  Egyptian Air Force, MiG, Mr. Color, Schmattarim Museum

• MiG 17 – Part Three – Dam Those Wings

  

  I have always thought that wing dams were an admission of error on the part of an aircraft designer. Yet they feature on any number of Eastern and Western jets – mostly the ones that have swept wings. You may know them as stall fences or barriers. They keep the air moving back past the…

  Dick Stein

  July 6, 2021

  1:72 scale, design, Model Airplane, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, subassembly

  MiG, wing design, Zvezda

• MiG 17 – Part Two – Smarter Than The Average Bear

  

  Look here, Prague. The Russians – crude stumbling peasants that they are…drunken, covered in ice and angst…can make a cockpit tub that fits into the fuselage first time. The tub is a precise moulding and the partitions that hold it in place allow both sides of the fuselage to approximate without gaps. It’s almost as…

  Dick Stein

  July 5, 2021

  1:72 scale, design, Model Airplane, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, subassembly

  centre of gravity, cockpit, MiG, Zvezda

• MiG 17 – Part One – I Buy By Price

  

  And I buy cheap. My trip to the hobby shop was for paint – of course I detoured into the kit aisle, and of course I looked over all the 1:72 offerings there. The shop is one that I rarely get to, so it may contain things not seen before. This was so, but while…

  Dick Stein

  July 4, 2021

  1:72 scale, finances, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Museums, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  MiG, Schmattarim Museum, Zvezda