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New 1/32 Mig-23BN conversion set from HpH


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Trying to resist as well. Keep focusing on my previous 23MF build where the undercarriage is now slowly collapsing under the weight of the kit. I think it's down to the funky design but it may just be my building skills!

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I'm really surprised to see HpH missed another characteristic (and basic) feature of the MiG-23BN: the bulged NLG doors.

Pretty atypical for HpH standards. Sloppiness? Haste? Ignorance? Tunnel vision?  :wtf:

On the one hand, the HpH MiG-23BN conversion positively comprises a new and fairly accurately reproduced pair of MiG-23BN NLG wheels, but on the other hand it lacks the characteristic bulged MiG-23BN nose landing gear doors.  :wallbash:

 

MiG-23BN NLG doors:

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NLG door wheel bulge (exterior):

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NLG door wheel bulge (interior):

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(Just for the record, the baseline Trumpeter MiG-23MF kit comes with the original "smooth" NLG doors)

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So...  If a guy wants to build accurate 1/32 Soviet Cold War era aircraft without replacing half of the plane with aftermarket....  What kit's out there would you recommend?  It looks like slim pickings to me.

 

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Excluding anything kitted by Trumpeter and injection-moulded kits in general, I'd recommend HpH's 32nd scale renditions of the MiG-15bis and the Aero L-39. Reasonably accurate kits. 

LEM Su-17 boxings - not so...

LEM Su-7BM/BMK - not too bad...

LEM MiG-9 - looks quite nice...

LEM MIG-27 - go away!!

 

If you're a real sucker for Soviet Cold War stuff, you'd better resort to 48th scale...

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Just now, Ivan Ivanovich said:

 

If you're a real sucker for Soviet Cold War stuff, you'd better resort to 48th scale...

Thanks for the quick response.  I feared as much.  

Checked Ebay...  The HPH MiG 15 would cost me 400bucks AU. 

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HpH has rightfully gained an excellent reputation for high quality kits with great attention to detail, but their MiG-23BN conversion is sorta half-baked by HpH standards. Comparatively small details by their size, but characteristic and unique features of a MiG-23BN. It's like offering a Seafire conversion and deliberately omitting the arresting gear.

Mirek stated they might "do another set with such details" in the future.  :huh:

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I don't understand HPH. They break their backs to make world class sailplanes for the real world, yet they struggle with sometimes the simplest of details such as this.  Why go through all the trouble for a half baked product?  Yet I will buy and do what I need to do, I suppose. It fixes many of the ills, and I have the Zacto stuff to fix the rest.

I'll basically end up with full a resin kit with some IM add ons.

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This will, in one swoop, correct many of the base kit’s deficiencies.

YES!

Martin, exactly.  We know that if we want to play the Russian jet game in 1/32, we need to get creative.  Letting party poopers come and mess with our minds is counterproductive. We have ICM, AMK, KHM, GWH and others giving us SUPERB Russian jets in 1/48, of which you and I each own several, but 1/32 has always been where fools or brave folks go. You, Ivan, me, and a few others have the willingness (and need) to go, no matter the cost.

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