Another day, and another new project starts. This time it’s an ICM 1/48 MiG-3, the first combat aircraft of the MiG dynasty. I’m adding some Kits World 3-D decal seat harness belts and a Cutting Edge IP to this project, and will be making it in the markings of one of the top Soviet aces, Aleksandr Pokryskhin. Flying first the MiG-3 then later the P-39 Airacobra, he amassed more kills than any western Allied ace.
last night at IPMS, I started construction and built up the gem of the engine that this kit has
I still have a few more projects to wrap up before I go full bore into this one, but I’m really liking it so far.
ICM 1/48 MiG-3
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ICM 1/48 MiG-3
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Nice! Built this one a few many years back...still my favorite box art of any plane I've built. Enjoy it!
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Neat project. Nice engine, too!
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Great looking airplane. Are you going to paint her white like the box art? Seems challenging but I'd really like to see that!
Thanks,
John
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Glad to hear that you guys like this subject choice!
Jeeves, I also think that the box art is pretty nice.
Lyle, the engine is a beauty indeed. ICM is pretty good about the engines that they include on many kits.
John, I’ll be doing this one in a 1941 summer scheme of green over light blue. Pretty mundane…
Jeeves, I also think that the box art is pretty nice.
Lyle, the engine is a beauty indeed. ICM is pretty good about the engines that they include on many kits.
John, I’ll be doing this one in a 1941 summer scheme of green over light blue. Pretty mundane…
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Very nice, Carlos! I don't know much about this aircraft outside of having built the Trumpeter 1/48 version but it is such a hotrod-looking aircraft. Looking forward to the next update!
John aka JKim
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Thanks John. I’m not overly familiar with the type myself, but I agree that it is a very sharp looking design. I know that Trumpeter makes one in 1/32, if you ever feel so inclined…
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The MiG-3 was a good high altitude interceptor, but the Germans didn't bring anything to that fight, it was a low and medium altitude war in the east. The IL-2 used the same engine and that sealed the MiG-3's fate.
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Yup, although in the right hands, like the P-39, it could do well at low to medium altitude as well. The markings I’m doing for Pokryshkin is one of those guys. 59 kills in the Mig-3 and P-39.
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Very nice choice. I love WW2 Russian fighters.
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