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Title: Trasformation Post by: KIKKO on October 05, 2011, 12:39:02 PM Hi all,excuse me for my ignorance:Can I trasform a Mig-3 Early type in to a later one?Which are the major and more visibily trasformation?Perhaps is a silly question but I know the Russian World very few......be patient!!! ;)
P.S. I've an early 1\48 Trumpeteer Mig-3 but I've seen some interesting camo profiles all late.......... Title: Re: Trasformation Post by: TISO on October 05, 2011, 06:08:16 PM Since there is no such thing as too many MiG-3's buy also late MiG-3 by Trumpeter
Title: Re: Trasformation Post by: marluc on October 05, 2011, 08:20:09 PM Hello KIKKO:
Welcome to de the forum.If you didn?t do it already,take a look here: http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/mig3/mig3.html There some interesting profiles of "early" Mig-3s in the profile gallery.greetings. Martin Title: Re: Trasformation Post by: KIKKO on October 05, 2011, 08:48:38 PM Hi all and thanks for the info.Enrico ;)
Title: Re: Trasformation Post by: John Thompson on October 10, 2011, 07:13:29 PM Hi all,excuse me for my ignorance:Can I trasform a Mig-3 Early type in to a later one?Which are the major and more visibily trasformation?Perhaps is a silly question but I know the Russian World very few......be patient!!! ;) P.S. I've an early 1\48 Trumpeteer Mig-3 but I've seen some interesting camo profiles all late.......... Hey Kikko! There's no such thing as silly questions. Just off the top of my head, the changes required to make an early MiG-3 into a late one are: (1) Add slats to the leading edges of the wings (2) Different style of pitot tube (because of the slats) (3) Slight difference in shape of stabilizers/elevators (probably not noticeable enough to bother with) (4) Louvres (air outlets) on fuselage sides below cockpit (5) Full-length fairings over two outer guns on cowling top (6) Fairing or shield over first exhaust stack on both sides Those are the major ones and a couple of the minor ones; comparison of drawings for early and late types will help guide you. Massimo's "Mushroom Press" book is the best reference available on the MiG-3. Online drawings: This set is probably the easiest to use to determine differences between early and late: http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw2/mig3pol.html This set details the whole history of the MiG-3 family, from prototypes to MiG-1 to MiG-3 to MiG-9/I-210: http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw2/mig3-3.html This is worth reading, and may be helpful; ignore any source which says the early MiG-3 and late MiG-3 had different nose lengths - they were both the same: http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/mig3/lenght.html Massimo's early MiG-3 page: http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/mig3/MiG-3early.html Massimo's late MiG-3 page: http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/mig3/latemig-3.html Have fun! John |