1/48  KP MiG-21bis

by Vjekoslav Ranec

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This is my MiG-21 model from KP.  I bought this model sometime in 1994.  I was just a child, and I painted a Croatian scheme on it.  That was my first airbrush project. It was fully unsuccessfully done.  A few years later I overpainted it with some kind of Russian camo scheme.  Very bad again.  It was on my dusty closet for almost 6 years from then.  Finally, I decided to make something from that thing.  I broke every little detail apart, and I started from the beginning.  I needed tons of putty and sanding, and about two months to finish it. Many details were scratchbuilt, some are from Academy kit - including decals.

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Now, this is the final product.  Indian camo MiG-21bis with braking a parachute made from scratch.  I have used aluminium foil, copper wire, and steel wire for it. Like I said - decals are from Academy kit, Pilot is from one of the old Hobbycraft kits and some details are from academy "MF" kit. I cut a piece of the tail and then replaced the standard MF spline on the kit a "bis" spline to create the "bis" version.

I had very few reference materials for this one. The only pictures exist on www.bharat-rakshak.com, but only few are good.

I think that now I have very unique model in my collection.

Vjekoslav

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Photos and text © by Vjekoslav Ranec  www.vrdesign.tk