PREPARATION:
A time unpacked the parts, start the evaluation of what it will be made. I detached everything, verifying if it also lacked something and the quality them parts. For a 1994 kit it was good excessively. I believe that the partnership of the MONOGRAM with the Revell gave one " fôlego" of quality in the kit. My objective will be to use the kit Revell as base for an improvement, adding diverse details in aluminum, cutting here, substituting there, etc. The first step is spoon all necessary information of the airplane using specialized literature, magazines, and mainly the photos found in the Internet (the Walkarounds"). Valley everything to inquire itself thus on the airplane and, to be able to move (or to improve) in the model, what it will be necessary. Evaluating the parts, the rabbets were good, little thing to correct in terms of warping of the parts (grateful surprise for a kit Revell 1:32 of this time). The Egyptian version that I intend to mount is of the unknown squadron of "Red Demon's Head" that they had defended Egypt against Israel in the end of years 70. At this time, Egypt worked with dispersed squadrons and exists references to this aerial unit (look book: "ARAB MIG-19 AND MIG-21 UNITS IN COMBAT"). In this assembly the model will have the GSh-23 cannon, two missiles ATOLL AA-2-2 “Advanced Atoll” (the AA-2 is guided by the heat, the AA-2-2 is guided by radar), Soviet a central tank of 490 liters and two throwers of rockets UV-16-57 that will be gotten of the modification of two throwers of rockets SNEB of another kit 1:32 (This kit of the MIG-21 does not have this type of armament). One is about the standard for ground attack Egyptian (with armament supplied for the Soviet Union).
"TECHNIQUE OF the ALUMINUM":
Many plastimodelistas work with kits of detailing in resin, photo-etchs, plates of acetado, etc. Amongst the traditional techniques and not traditional, I work with aluminum of cans of beer. He functions? Yes, I have a kit 1:32 of converted MIRAGE 5 for the KFIR Israeli C7 where I used this technique and was very good. The aluminum is easy to cut, to sandpaper, to fold, to mold and to paint. E also is very pleasant of if getting! (It buys a dozen of cans of beer - of the mark that to prefer - consummates "with moderation" e later cut the empty cans getting aluminum plates that well fine and are adjusted for works in any scale). I obtain to make almost everything with them: photo-etchs, plates, parts, pipes, etc. the glue can be made with glues of the type "isocianoacrilato" or even though with "white glue". It is enough to have patience.
STAGE 01: "INITIAL MODIFICATIONS":
To cut a kit leaves any one " of hair in top". But already I got used. When I finish to cut, of that impression of that "he was bad" but the first impression is alone. Nothing that good putty, sandpaper and adaptation it does not decide.
The fuselage of the MIG-21 has four doors destined to the air bleed (for inside and for it are) helping in the feeding of the turbine. These entrances are closed in the kit and its opening with real positioning of the doors, improves the final quality of the model.