Mig-23 MLA. 1/32 trumpeter (red-39)

Post by **millolucian** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 9:50 am

My new project is Trumpeter MiG 32 ml, with its many glaring defects corrected with the Aires resin - cockpit plus drive bays and inlet separator plates Zactomodels, very few pieces of kit Eduard exterior and lots of buildings zero!

Drawings scaled-up to 1:32nd from a russian book "MiG 32 ML P MLD" by S. Burdin, published in Minsk, 1994, Pages 21- 28. Also of great help were "MiG-23 fighter variants MF,ML", bilingual Czech/English, from 4+ publications and "MiG-23/27 Flogger. Soviet Swing-Wing Fighter/Strike Arcraft", by Yefim Gordon and Keith Dexter, published by Aerofax.

The shape and length of the nose are wrong, as confirmed by placing the parts over 1:32 line drawings (the red lines represent the outline of the kit parts)

Post by **millolucian** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 9:57 am

Profile nose too sharp, had to be replaced. I looked for an alternative and found that another Trumpeter kit. The point is that the nose has a wrong profile for aircraft came. The nose cone MiG 29!

On the left you can see the original MiG 23 con, shortened and MiG 29 a dry fit half the fuselage.

Pinocchio nose had set. This is how it looked:

Compare it to his new cone, the one modified from the MiG 29. It makes a huge difference

We also took the opportunity to further strengthen the area, or by adding styrene ...

Post by **millolucian** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 10:01 am

reproduction cone

Post by **Coen** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:10 am

Whoa! Very cool!!

Post by **millolucian** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 4:50 pm

Thanks Coen !

Post by **millolucian** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 4:53 pm

riveting and re-engraving:

Post by **billlarisa** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 10:10 am

amazing work!!!

Post by **Fran** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 1:20 pm

Yeah!.. looks nice! well done with the resin copy. It's a very clean work!!

Post by **millolucian** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 4:46 pm

Cockpit all done, ready to be installed in the front half of the fuselage

The gear bays were first painted with a gloss enamel, mixed to match the Russian colors. The wires were done with Vallejo Model Color and sealed with Future. Flat acrylic paint, a combination of 95% grey (60% black + 40% white) and brown 5% was gassed with the airbrush, and then wiped off. A finishing touch, the wash was a mixture of ocher and black pigments.
wheel bay Aires

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Post by **patrickroos** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 7:25 pm

Amazing work so far!

Post by **millolucian** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 7:58 pm

Thanks Patrick!

Post by **millolucian** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 5:32 pm

The cockpit canopy now follows the fuselage spine outline instead of bulging out. It took a lot of filing to achieve this and then the lower frame had to be reconstructed with white styrene.

Post by **millolucian** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 5:37 pm

Yet another thing that the Trumpeter guys have done wrong is the shape of the jet intakes, symmetrical, when the top corner should have been more rounded...

No big deal really, cut offending pieces:

add thick, triangular sections of styrene:

Post by **millolucian** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 5:40 pm

Family MiG 23 is the most complex landing on aircraft of all timpurile.Kit does not miserably in rendering this complexity and all angles are wrong. In ML gear front is too wide, so soil orientation is nothing like it should be (MF version is even worse). had to address the problems and I finished rebuilding the entire assembly from the wheels up.
You can see here I built a simple bracket, which shows how the aircraft should stand their ground.

For the correct ground stance the front landing leg in 1:32nd should extend to 42 millimeters from the bottom of the fuselage (as opposed to 47 provided by the kit), while the lowest point of the burner can should be at 26 millimeters from the ground. The legs as provided in the kit are in the extended position as if the aircraft would be airborne, coming in for a landing.

Post by **millolucian** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 5:45 pm

The kit has the rubber that is beautifully detailed but sadly are too thick. The hub has shallow details for the front, while the main ones are fictitious.
They had to be replaced.
The front wheels: to the left is the accurate version of the hub as opposed to what is provided in the kit. The shallow details of the kit were improved by making the necessary cutouts in one hub and overlapping them over another that was left as is. A styrene circle was then added.

For the tires a 1:48th Hasegawa F-4 Phantom main wheel was used, with the hub removed.

Post by **millolucian** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 5:49 pm

The main wheels were replicated from a Revell MiG 29A wheel copy heavily modified

from left to right:
1. wheel trumpeter
2. wheel Revell
3. wheel modified Revell
4. wheel finals

The end result would look like this:

Post by **patrickroos** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 11:54 pm

You must love this bird...
I love watching this build...

Post by **robertw** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 4:55 am

The level of patience you need to do something like this is insane!

Post by **millolucian** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 4:12 pm

Thank colleagues!:)

Post by **millolucian** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 4:17 pm

For the correct ground stance the front landing leg in 1:32nd should extend to 42 millimeters from the bottom of the fuselage (as opposed to 47 provided by the kit), while the lowest point of the burner can should be at 26 millimeters from the ground. The legs as provided in the kit are in the extended position as if the aircraft would be airborne, coming in for a landing.
The front leg was totally reconstructed, the only kit parts used were the rotation actuator and axle beam assembly.
The axle beam assembly being improved with styrene and the scissors taken from the Trumpeter MiG 29 (the kit has them overly simplified):
Edit: the metal reinforcing part shows the extended position, the angle is wrong.

Here you can see the main axle being fabricated from a missile body:

Post by **millolucian** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 4:21 pm

This would be the end result, the actuator is a resin part provided in the Aires bay set:

Post by **millolucian** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 4:24 pm

Post by **patrickroos** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:19 pm

Aires bling gear on steoroids...
Beautiful work mate!

Post by **millolucian** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 2:07 pm

thanks Patrick !

Post by **millolucian** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 2:21 pm

Thank you all for feedback !

Post by **schweinhund227** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 6:58 pm

Beautiful work !

Master class !

Post by **Nige201980** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 7:15 pm

Stunning work mate.

Post by **millolucian** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 9:04 am

Thank mates, for the nice comments !

Post by **millolucian** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 2:56 pm

The main gear is provided in two versions, both wrong, both too extended: for the ML and for the MF even worse, protrudes to the rear by one third , it cannot be retracted into the bay. The landing gear as is provided is simply unacceptable.

Post by **millolucian** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 2:59 pm

The main gear has two components that need to be modified so that the aircraft sits right. 5 (five) millimeters need to be removed from the axle beam assembly and the piston that actuates the retraction/extension of the gear should be lengthened by 4 millimeters. The gear legs were then improved.

Post by **millolucian** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 3:02 pm

Post by **millolucian** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 3:08 pm

The parts were then primed.

Post by **patrickroos** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:36 pm

Holy....

Post by **Hillbilly** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:57 pm

That landing gear is stunning

Post by **millolucian** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:12 pm

Thank you all for feedback !;)

Post by **millolucian** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:16 pm

The cover is shaped wheel set wrong, too right. A change had to be made of bits and pieces that included an F-4 Phantom auxiliary tank.

Post by **millolucian** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:20 pm

The gear bay doors are improved:

while raised detail was added to the auxiliary fuel tank

Post by **millolucian** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:23 pm

R-60 missile:

preparation for painting

Post by **millolucian** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:29 pm

The masking has begun with lights and probes on the underbelly.

intakes and gear bays were blanked off with sponge. The hole is where the twin guns are located

You can see a close up of the new canopy framing here

And we're good to go!

Post by **TheWeasel** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 8:11 am

This is perfection!

May I ask what the red stuff you're using for masking is?

Post by **m0rce** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 8:31 am

@$$#! Look at that detail work... freaking amazing...
Drooling over the cockpit
Well done Sir!
Regards
Sergio

Post by **FishBowlMan** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 10:23 pm

Just caught up with this thread. Wonderful work you're doing with this kit, picking up on details and issues that most of us would not have noticed, and probably would not have bothered to correct even if we were aware of them.

Looking forward to seeing her in paint.

Post by **millolucian** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:50 am

TheWeasel

masking material called red sticker

Post by **millolucian** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:52 am

Thank you all for feedback !

Post by **millolucian** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 8:06 am

surface treatment was done using acrylic color models Vallejo paints mixed to match the actual Soviet aircraft, and sealed using clear gloss varnish Vallejo.

Mig-23 MLA. red 39.

corps of Moscov air defence.(28 th.guard fighter regiment ) 1983.

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Post by **FishBowlMan** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 9:06 am

Absolutely stunning with just the right amount of weathering. A fine addition to your display case.

Post by **TheWeasel** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 11:57 am

This. This is how it's supposed to be done :O

perfect mig