**** DONE: MiG 21 PF 'Fishbed D', Moscow District PVO Aviation Fighter Regiment, 1967
- Thread starter Airframes
- Start date
Ad: This forum contains affiliate links to products on Amazon and eBay. More information in Terms and rules
B-17engineer
Colonel
Bye bye Terry!
T Bolt
Colonel
My Dad always said that alcohol was the best pain killer for Arthritis!
- Thread starter
- #244
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Echs libe dad orcectt! Ruffy translatedish - he's right! Can't feel a thing nowl! Ev'thing's numb, 'cluding me brain!
Think I lash og ot deb now...er..go to back now,,,er bed now! B*ll*cks, think i be drinker than I drunk i was.....
Where's the clutch to stop the bl**dy room from spinning? Shheeet, uncontrolled flat spin....eject, eject!
B*ll*cks! Seat doesn't arm until 125 meters.... I'm only at 0.5 metres!!!!
Think I lash og ot deb now...er..go to back now,,,er bed now! B*ll*cks, think i be drinker than I drunk i was.....
Where's the clutch to stop the bl**dy room from spinning? Shheeet, uncontrolled flat spin....eject, eject!
B*ll*cks! Seat doesn't arm until 125 meters.... I'm only at 0.5 metres!!!!
T Bolt
Colonel
Take 4 aspirin and drink a lot of water to avoid the hangover!!! 
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Take 4 aspirin and drink a lot of water to avoid the hangover!!!
Better still, hair of the dog.............that'll fix you.
- Thread starter
- #247
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Never suffer from hangovers -- slow moving for a few hours, maybe !!
- Thread starter
- #248
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
And back to work!
Got the gun sight and slave unit painted, and one of the side screens fitted. This was made from a piece of thin transparent packaging material. It only took three attempts to cut the shape, and four attempts to fit it !
The SK ejection seat has now completed Stage Three of its preparation, having had the basic paint work done.
PIC 1. Shows the painted gun sight, mounting bracket and slave unit. Some retouching will be done when work in this area is complete.
PIC 2. The first side screen in place. The small gaps are partly filled with PVA, some of which is visible here, still drying. More will be added when the firsat lot has hardened and, once done, and the screen fitted to the other side, the bottoms and forward edges will be painted to blend in with the armoured glass screen and instrument coaming.
PIC 3. The ejection seat so far. The seat squab was cut from the kit back rest, and the moulded belts filed off, and has been fitted into the seat pan to represent the PSP. On the right of the seat, some copper and lead wire has been fitted to represent the hoses and wires from the PEC, and these will be bent into place and retouched later, along with those areas to be retouched after handling. Next stage here is to make and fit the combined seat / parachute harness, using thick foil, copper and lead wire.
Thanks again for your interest.
Got the gun sight and slave unit painted, and one of the side screens fitted. This was made from a piece of thin transparent packaging material. It only took three attempts to cut the shape, and four attempts to fit it !
The SK ejection seat has now completed Stage Three of its preparation, having had the basic paint work done.
PIC 1. Shows the painted gun sight, mounting bracket and slave unit. Some retouching will be done when work in this area is complete.
PIC 2. The first side screen in place. The small gaps are partly filled with PVA, some of which is visible here, still drying. More will be added when the firsat lot has hardened and, once done, and the screen fitted to the other side, the bottoms and forward edges will be painted to blend in with the armoured glass screen and instrument coaming.
PIC 3. The ejection seat so far. The seat squab was cut from the kit back rest, and the moulded belts filed off, and has been fitted into the seat pan to represent the PSP. On the right of the seat, some copper and lead wire has been fitted to represent the hoses and wires from the PEC, and these will be bent into place and retouched later, along with those areas to be retouched after handling. Next stage here is to make and fit the combined seat / parachute harness, using thick foil, copper and lead wire.
Thanks again for your interest.
Attachments
B-17engineer
Colonel
Great work Terry!! Seat turned out great!
- Thread starter
- #251
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Thanks very much Tony and H. More pics tomorrow, hopefully.
Crimea_River
Marshal
Superb work Terry!
very neat Dogsbody, well done mate
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Lovely job T.
kgambit
Tech Sergeant
Great job Terry.
- Thread starter
- #257
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Thanks very much guys.
BB, it's not bare metal - I wish it was, it would have been easier to do! The finish is supposed to be the metallised dope coating of aluminium powder and clear dope varnish. The earlier, first generation MiG 21's were bare metal though.
BB, it's not bare metal - I wish it was, it would have been easier to do! The finish is supposed to be the metallised dope coating of aluminium powder and clear dope varnish. The earlier, first generation MiG 21's were bare metal though.
Nicely done there Terry!
- Thread starter
- #259
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Thanks very much Wayne.
Users who are viewing this thread
Similar threads
