T Bolt
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MiG-3 White 5 Alexander Pokryshkin Winter 1941 /1942 VVS/Eastern Front 1941-44 Group Build
User name: T Bolt
Name: Glenn
Category: 2, Intermediate
Kit: Classic Airframes MiG-3
Scale: 1/48th.
Accessories: None. The kit comes with resin and photo etched parts.
This is my entry for the VVS/Eastern Front 1941-45 Group Build. Alexander Pokryshkin was the Soviet Union's second scoring ace with 59 confirmed victories behind only Ivan Kozhedub with 62. He was three time Hero of the Soviet Union and was awarded four Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, four Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of Suvorov (2nd class), two Orders of the Red Star, and the United States Army Air Forces Distinguished Service Medal.
Pokryshkin flew the MiG-3 scoring almost 20 victories from the beginning of the German invasion in late June 1941 to March of 1942 at which time he started flying the Yak-1. The Mig-3 I'm going to build is White 5 which was one of the MiG-3s he flew (apparently he went through a few). I have several profiles of it, but haven't been able to locate any pictures other than a portion of the nose in one of the pictures of Pokryshkin shown below. I'm not sure this is White 5, but I will try to duplicate the heavy weathering shown on it in the picture. Any further information would be welcomed.
The kit looks simple at first inspection with a limited number of parts, but this is an early example of Classic Airframes work and the injected molded sprues defiantly have that "limited run" look to them, so I'm not expecting the whole thing to just fall together. There are also resin and PE parts included as well as two vacuformed canopies. At some time in the past I had made a false start building this kit, but all it amounted to was spraying a base color cote on some of the interior and landing gear parts. I won't really get started with it until my Commonwealth Group Build project is complete, but I might do a little fiddling around with it before then.
User name: T Bolt
Name: Glenn
Category: 2, Intermediate
Kit: Classic Airframes MiG-3
Scale: 1/48th.
Accessories: None. The kit comes with resin and photo etched parts.
This is my entry for the VVS/Eastern Front 1941-45 Group Build. Alexander Pokryshkin was the Soviet Union's second scoring ace with 59 confirmed victories behind only Ivan Kozhedub with 62. He was three time Hero of the Soviet Union and was awarded four Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, four Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of Suvorov (2nd class), two Orders of the Red Star, and the United States Army Air Forces Distinguished Service Medal.
Pokryshkin flew the MiG-3 scoring almost 20 victories from the beginning of the German invasion in late June 1941 to March of 1942 at which time he started flying the Yak-1. The Mig-3 I'm going to build is White 5 which was one of the MiG-3s he flew (apparently he went through a few). I have several profiles of it, but haven't been able to locate any pictures other than a portion of the nose in one of the pictures of Pokryshkin shown below. I'm not sure this is White 5, but I will try to duplicate the heavy weathering shown on it in the picture. Any further information would be welcomed.
The kit looks simple at first inspection with a limited number of parts, but this is an early example of Classic Airframes work and the injected molded sprues defiantly have that "limited run" look to them, so I'm not expecting the whole thing to just fall together. There are also resin and PE parts included as well as two vacuformed canopies. At some time in the past I had made a false start building this kit, but all it amounted to was spraying a base color cote on some of the interior and landing gear parts. I won't really get started with it until my Commonwealth Group Build project is complete, but I might do a little fiddling around with it before then.
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