**** DONE: GB-46 1:48 MiG-3 - WW2 Eastern Front / Twin Engine A/C, Transports and Gliders

[fubar57]

Username: fubar57
First name: George
Category: Advanced
Manufacturer: Trumpeter
Model: MiG-3 (Late) Kit #02831
Scale: 1:48

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This will be the aircraft of Capt. A.V. Schopov, of 6 IAP, 6 IAK (Fighter Air Corps), IA-PVO (Moscow Air Defence), winter 1941/42. There is no photo of the aircraft. The box top shows gun pods under the wings but none are in the kit so that's how it will be depicted.

 

[fubar57]

Kit innards...

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[rochie]

Nice one Geo.

off to start my thread now !

 

[fubar57]

Added photos to Post #2. I went back and reviewed my build of the MiG-3 early version.....I cried a little

 

[Donivanp]

Super cool Geo!

 

[nsmekanik]

Nifty, should be interesting.

 

[Snautzer01]

One of my fav. planes.

 

[fubar57]

Right....time to get started. I've been over at Massimo's site a lot and checking out other builds. I decided to use a mix of all. Side panels were sprayed with Mr. Hobby (formerly/still Gunze Sangyo(?)) H67-RLM65. The floor was sprayed Tamiya XF58 - Olive Green as on Massimo's site. Boxes were done with a Tamiya dark green though I can't remember which. The site says they could be green or black. Seat armour and IP were painted Tamiya XF69 - Nato Black. Cushions were done with Vallejo Model Color Leather. Leather was also painted on the rectangle on the side panel. I just found out what the patch was for. There's a foot-hole in the fuselage for cockpit access and it opened into the cockpit. This allowed debris to come into the cockpit so they put a patch over it which I left in aluminum. I noticed while editing the photos that I forgot a second coat on the seat. Once that dries I'll start the weathering process.

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I finally read the manual for my big honkin' Canon and figured out the manual aperture setting which is why everything is in focus. Also since January when I fired up my new Laptop with Windows 10, I couldn't upload photos; I'd have to use my old Lenovo. I've been searching the webs since January looking for a solution. Finding no solutions I was going to take it to the Geek Squad in PG on Monday. Yesterday, on a whim, I reformatted one of the three SD cards I use and ta-freakin-da, I can upload photos now. That card will be used exclusively in my big honkin' Canon

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice. Wonder why Windows 10 can be so finicky. Things are supposed to get easier. Oops, sorry, wrong planet.

 

[Snautzer01]

About the gun pods Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG3


from: The legends of aviation Mig 3

 

[Wayne Little]

Cool...!

 

[fubar57]

Good recall. I guess mine will be depicted as, "....the underwing armament was dismounted quite quickly by maintence crews or at field workshops. And this is the reason for not seeing them very often"

 

[Airframes]

Good start Geo - and don't get me going on ******* Windows 10 !!!!

 

[rochie]

Very nice Geo

 

[fubar57]

Weathering in progress, a bit involving Tamiya Panel liner so photos later. In the meantime I once again filled the open holes in the bottom of the wings that Trumpeter thankfully had opened.

 

[dneid]

Geo, nice subject. This will be an interesting build to watch.

And, Terry, don't mean Windoze 10? Sorry, Mac humor.

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Also from the last build, there were small rectangular gaps about midway along the wing root. Knowing this now I checked the upper wing halves and sure enough, very faintly I found these and corrected. A test fit and no more gaps

 

[Wurger]