Kopro 94152: 1/72 MiG-21UM Fishbed

Units: See review

Price

80 Karuna (about $4.45) from www.hobbyshop.cz

Reviewer:

Scott Van Aken

This Kopro sheet is for their MiG-21UM, which may also be an Eastern Express or perhaps Zvezda kit. Regardless there are 1/72 MiG-21 UMs being kitted and this will fit all of them. You can tell it is a kit sheet from one of Kopro's boxings because it has instrument panel decals and a kit number on it.

The sheet allows you to do four different aircraft. There are stencils for one, but you can use kit stencils if you wish to do others. There are two Czech aircraft provided. One is a three tone grey plane based as Caslav AFB in 2004. Note that this has green radomes. The other is an unpainted metal version, also from Caslav AFB, but in 2005. This one has some additional markings on the rudder and nose. For this one, the lower radome is a brownish shade.

A Slovak aircraft from Sliac AFB in 1993 is also provided. This one is camouflaged in earth and green with a light blue underside. As some of you may know, when Czechoslovakia peacefully divided in the Slovakia and the Czech Republich, their military was divided according to population giving both countries pretty much the same equipment.

The last is a Libyan plane based at Tobruk in 2007. It is sand, brown and dark green on the upper surfaces with light blue underside. Markings are rather minimal on this one, but it is rather colorful as things go.

The decals themselves are superbly printed and the instructions come with a range of painting options. 

August 2012

My thanks to www.hobbyshop.cz for the review sample. You can get yours direct from the hyperlink.

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