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

[Guest]

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.

[Guest]

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:

[Guest]

add thick, triangular sections of styrene:

[papa 695]

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

[monica]

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

[Guest]

Thanks everyone for the great comments, it means alot to me

[Guest]

detail works are simply amazing. i love them. looking forward for more

[Guest]

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.

[Guest]

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.

[Guest]

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:

[Guest]

[Guest]

Superb detail work Millo.

[Guest]

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:

[Guest]

[yak face]

Superb work Millo , the front leg looks amazing . The undercarriage of the MiG 23 is such a prominent feature of the aircraft its vitally important that it looks correct or the whole model wont look right , this makes it all the more frustrating that a big maker like Trumpeter can get it so wrong. Keep up the excellent work its going to be a first class build , cheers Tony