In case you've been wondering what I've been up to...
He's been making a steel rule, Cool
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nice plane BTW
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Hey Tom
do you leave the top off the toothpaste as well
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QuoteHey Tom
do you leave the top off the toothpaste as well
:unsure: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r:
:cheers:
First thing I noticed
QuoteHe's been making a steel rule, Cool
Yes, my scratchbuilding skills are supreme.
Quotedo you leave the top off the toothpaste as well
Lost the bloody cap. It got gunked up anyway.
A good start, but wheres the Jelly Babies ?
Is this as per box or the Operational variant ?
Cheers
Geoff B B)
Ok, stupid question time, but WHAT is it??
MiG 1.44 Lancer boy.
B)
Zvezda Mig 1.44 Kit @ Hannants (http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=ZVE7252)
Hi Lancer
Its this one
Cheers
Geoff B B)
But this is What-If. That means it's not a MiG 1-44, it's a MiG-37! :P
If built, it would have been MiG-33.
It would also have a nose radar, modified intakes, new canopy, and revised wing shape. Plus it would have been generally "cleaned up" for RCS reasons.
This is to be built as a prototype so I know how the kit builds up. When this one's done, I'll start on the other one as a MiG-33. I'm not sure about redoing the canopy, but I do intend to redo the wings and clean up the shape a little. I'm also working on giving the intakes a different profile.
And I ran out of Jelly Babies.
Looking good Tom.
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Guys, in the latest "Air International", they call the 1.44 a MiG 37...
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Sure thing. I mentioned the canopy because, as might be obvious, the 1.44 demonstrator used a standard MiG-29 canopy. Its like the EAP; a hack machine put together to prove a basic layout. Imagine trying to mod an EAP kit into a production Typhoon- or the YF-22 into the production FA-22 - thats the scale of the task, coupled with the fact that the actual finished design has never been revealed ;)
MiG-xx series names were allocated sequentially (odd numbers only) by the Soviet Air Force. So, as the MiG-31 was the last model made, the next machine to be built would have been (and still would be, in the Russian Air Force) the MiG-33. There were no other projects further advanced to fill the -33 and -35 slots to make the 1.42 into MiG-37.
Mikoyan touted the MiG-29M (official name) as MiG-33 at one point, but it wasn't official- just a way of emphasising it was a new machine.
Likewise, Sukhoi called the Su-27M the Su-35, and then Su-37, and the Su-27IB has been called Su-32 and Su-34. The Su-25TM has also been Su-34 and seems to be Su-39 currently.
So thats cleared that up ;)
I concur a 100%, I'm just reporting what I read!
Isn't the Su-39 the carrier version? In LOMAC that's what it is.
QuoteMiG-xx series names were allocated sequentially (odd numbers only) by the Soviet Air Force. So, as the MiG-31 was the last model made, the next machine to be built would have been (and still would be, in the Russian Air Force) the MiG-33. There were no other projects further advanced to fill the -33 and -35 slots to make the 1.42 into MiG-37.
Mikoyan touted the MiG-29M (official name) as MiG-33 at one point, but it wasn't official- just a way of emphasising it was a new machine.
Likewise, Sukhoi called the Su-27M the Su-35, and then Su-37, and the Su-27IB has been called Su-32 and Su-34. The Su-25TM has also been Su-34 and seems to be Su-39 currently.
So thats cleared that up ;)
LOL..I think the Russians do it just to confuse the hell out of us Westerners....
Ok, I did say that it was a stupid question didn't I??
Well partly it is due to an internal war between two parts of Sukhoi, the Su-27 designers under Simonov and the Su-25 designers under Babak.
Babak designated the Rafale-alike S-37 (internal designation) as "Su-37" for marketing purposes, so Simonov renamed the Su-27M with vectoring nozzles "Su-37". For good measure Simonov's S-32 (internal designation) Berkut became the S-37, forcing Babak's Rafale-alike to become "237", and right now Berkut is the totally out of sequence "Su-47" I believe.
Babak named the Su-25TM Su-34, and then Simonov renamed the Su27IB Su-34 to spite him.
IIRC the MiG-29M is called "MiG-35", "MiG-33" is the carrier Fulcrum... :wacko:
So Mikoyan might well call the 1.42/1.44 "MiG-37"! B)
QuoteThere were no other projects further advanced to fill the -33 and -35 slots to make the 1.42 into MiG-37.
Hmmm ??? ... And what's about the MiG-AT ???
Why did this plane never get a MiG-number ???
Deino :D
Mikoyan MiG-AT started design as an L-39 replacement in the late 1980s.
Different models were designated 815 (T-tail) and 821, 821 being the design selected in 1992 along with the Yak-130 as a finalist. If selected, it would have been given a "MiG-" designation, perhaps an even number like MiG-32, but the USSR dissolved before that point. As Yak-130 is now the favoured program, the MiG-AT is going for export sales only.