Thanks guys. 
It's true Shaun, this is an excellent kit. There are some issues but they are very minor and it would be unduly harsh of me to criticise Eduard. This has to be the best Mig-21 in this scale by a country mile.
Today has seen a fair bit of work done to the house in preparation for the upcoming central heating replacement next week. On the bright side it has given me the opportunity to get Mrs Dazzled onside with my plans for a dedicated modelling set-up in the box room 
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Despite the busy day I have been a busy boy at the bench for a couple of hours. It's been mostly prep work and niggly little bits to do. Time consuming but necessary.
I unmasked the windscreen and attached it, rather nervously, with a small amount of superglue.
I say "nervously" because I normally use Clearfix for transparencies and I feared that I might cloud the component. The problem with Clearfix is that it doesn't always give a strong bond, particularly on windscreens which can get bashed about a bit at the mask/paint stage so, after seeing some "proper" modellers use cyano glue in magazines I thought I'd give it a try. Happily, it all seems to have gone well. While I was there I fixed one of the extra canopies in place with a lump of Blu-tak. Eduard provide 3 in the kit and this one will be sacrificed as a paintproof cover for the cockpit.
Another thing that occurred to me was that I'd like to model the Mig with it's flaps dropped as they are normally seen while parked. Actuator covers are provided but they are only suitable for an aircraft with flaps straight. So I made a little modification.
Once the flaps are in place I'll insert the reworked triangles in the gaps.
Another task achieved today was the pitot tube. This is why I thought it was a good idea to get a new one...
Half an hour of surgery made things a lot better
And that's pretty much it so far. I've started masking and I also attached the intake ring. Looking at it, I may have to do a little reshaping at the front. But that decision can wait until tomorrow when the liquid glue has had a good chance to set.
Darryl
Statistics: Posted by Dazzled — May 23rd, 2014, 8:20 pm