Balancing Revell MiG-31

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Can anyone out there help me out, please?

I have a 1/72 scale Revell MiG-31 under construction, but even without stores on the underwing pylons, it's tail-heavy, so the nose wheel comes off the ground by about 1cm.

I only have two options for adding some weight: through the small hole left in the nose (where the pitot tube or similar will go) or inside the air intakes.

I'd prefer the nose, as I'll need less weight and it'll be hidden.

Anyone know anything suitable that will add weight without deforming the plastic?

Thanks in advance - Teech:thinking:

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Teech,

Try some fishing weights..epoxied inside the nose cone.

5 minute epoxy will work. Temporarly tape the weights to the outside to get the correct amount of weight. Then epoxy inside nosecone.

Stan

Can anyone out there help me out, please?I have a 1/72 scale Revell MiG-31 under construction, but even without stores on the underwing pylons, it's tail-heavy, so the nose wheel comes off the ground by about 1cm.

I only have two options for adding some weight: through the small hole left in the nose (where the pitot tube or similar will go) or inside the air intakes.

I'd prefer the nose, as I'll need less weight and it'll be hidden.

Anyone know anything suitable that will add weight without deforming the plastic?

Thanks in advance - Teech:thinking:

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Howdy Teech,

First, welcome to the forum, we're glad to have you here.

Stan has a good suggestion, but i would like to take it one step further. Instead of using epoxy, use modelling clay with the fishing sinkers. The clay has more weight than the epoxy and still holds the weights in place...so you actually get more weight in the same space.

If that fails, I use a little trick where-in I take a small piece of steel wire (like you would find in a bread tie twist), strip all the paper or plastic off the wire, heat the end of it and insert the heated wire into the lower area of the back side of the back wheel.....making a "prop" for the wheel so to speak. It can then be trimmed so as that its hardly noticible.

Another method might be to create some small "wheel chocks" that you could glue infront of and behind each wheel, thereby giving the model a "flat base" to rest on rather than round wheels. (The wheels are still there, it just appears that the aircraft is chocked on the runway.

again, welcome to the forum, i hope this has been of some help to you.

have a good day,

Greg aka GEEDUBBYA (gw)