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

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)

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 ...

reproduction cone

riveting and engraving detail

great work millo , its always frustrating when kit makers get it so wrong . tony

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

Hi Milo

Very,very good work. The correction to the nose is excellent and the detail in the cockpit and ejection seats is exceptional.

Looking forward to seeing this progress.

Cheers

Paul

Thanks Paul!

Great stuff. I could spend an hour just looking at the seat.

Excellent work and detailing on the cockpit and seat, so much detail, looking forward to seeing more Millo

Great work on the modifications Millo and the seat and cockpit look fantastic stunning work so far

Superb work on the corrections especially Millo

Great work Millo!! Amazing job so far

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

Nice detailing Millo, looking forward to the next update

Wow, amazing work Millo, your attention to detail is awesome!!

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.

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:

This is getting better and better Millo great work looking forward to more

Great work Millo, Amazing job so far,so much added detailing very well done,