The '325'
MiG-15bis is the plane of Yevgeny Georgievic Pepelyayev---- top Russian ace
of the Korean War 1950-1953. I painted the nose all red at first, then used AutoCAD,
bubble jet printer, the yellow underlay paper of the decal sheet, Tamiya
tape and a knife to create 2 masks of this number, stuck them on the nose and
painted Gunze 159 super silver all over the model finally.
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The kit fits pretty
good. But I strongly recommend anyone who build the plane to enlarge the aft
fuselage inner space and test fit the engine BEFORE gluing the 2 parts of the
aft fuselage together. It's a good place to settle some lead fuse under the nose
avionics bay and in front of the instrument panel to avoid the plane from
becoming a
tail sitter.
The decal is tough, but used both
Mr.Hobby blue cap and green cap softer, and some patience, it will look very
nice when its done.
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The head rest on the ejection
seat is wrong. I acquired a spare one from a friend from his Tamiya kit .
Anyway, Trumpeter has a much better vertical tail and gun bay, avionics
bay......
Weiguang
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