MiG-21-F13, Egypt, by Andrew Inwald, 1:33

[Boris]

Thank you all, more updates soon

 

[zathros]

The copper wire for hydraulic lines was perfect. I don't think I've ever seen anyone detail this part of this aircraft to that extent. Awesome!

 

[Boris]

The copper wire for hydraulic lines was perfect. I don't think I've ever seen anyone detail this part of this aircraft to that extent. Awesome!

Thanks!!!

 

[Boris]

Hello all.
One more update.
This time the nose section.
Unfortunately, these segments are almost not shown in the instructions.
The front segment is closed with a glue tab at its front and the landing gear well should act as a positioner and a glue tab and a spacer for landing gear well edges to be parallel. After the closing of the front of the part, need to insert the engine inlet. Mounting the landing gear well took me many attempts untill I made a small paper strip to keep the edges of the landing gear well parallel. Then the well was mounted easily.
The second segment designed excessively cumbersome. The closing of the segment is done by the cover of the collimator/HUD, which has no former beside the top edge of the instrument panel. Then need to mount the well for the gun and then go the glue tabs to which the front segment should be connected. A lot of tries to fit these parts together, but I got it pretty well.
Over cumbersome design. I can think about other ways to design this part, but we got what we got.

 

[Revell-Fan]

Very nice!

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

This is coming together nicely!

 

[mijob]

Perfect, I like the resest parts.

 

[Boris]

Hello all everybody.
Happy Passover to the members of the Jewish community, Happy Easter to the Catholics.

I am back to my build of the MiG-21-F13.
Last time I stopped at the nose pieces. I had to reprint and rebuild everything I built up until now since my three-legged dog stumbled and destroyed the model. Sounds weird, but this is what we've got and will have to win with that.
So I attached the cockpit wrapping to the center part and attached the nose inlet part. To make sure that the nose will be heavier than the tail, I added a 10 grams weight used for tyres balancing.
The idea of the developer to use the Heads-Up display cover as a structural member of the wrapping is questionable. It is buildable, no argue, but need to be very cautious not to cause any deformations while trying to attach the front segments together.
Than I moved to the rear parts. The engine exhaust screen edge acts as a former for the rear parts and also has a former on the front part which is a narrow ring. Not so simple to make this ring, it's 3 mm wide. So, I coarsely cut the outer diameter of the ring and brought it to a needed diameter with 100 grit sanding paper. The second rear ring former was nothing difficult, really.
Next I began with the dorsal spine. The designer proposed to mount a cardboard strips on the edges of the dorsal spine wrapping with gluing tabs between the wrapping and these strips and then to insert the formers that would provide the needed shape. Very good idea, this way the spine sides won't sag inwards. Getting to such a small diameter bend is not simple and I glad I decided to use a pretty thin 145 g/sq.m paper.
I also prepared a stand on which I could lean the plane's body while I work on it...
In all, excellent parts fit untill now. I have a problem with the cockpit wrapping, its design requires too much carefulness, and I have a bump between the first and the second parts. I'll need to find a solution for this, or hide it somehow.

Well, enjoy the pictures

 

[mijob]

Great to see you are still working on this model it looks great.