Subject: Re: The "starry blue bird"
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: Róbert Serfőző <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:51:03 -0700

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
ARC Air - Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.arcair.com

Live like there is no tomorrow;
Love like you've never been hurt.
Work like you don't need the money.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Róbert Serfőző 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:15 AM
  Subject: The "starry blue bird"

  1/72 Italeri Mig-29

  by Robert Serfőző 

  The "starry blue bird"

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  The airplane MÍG-29 is taken on the palette of several manufacturers with more or less success. The kit of Italian Italeri is popular among the Hungarian mock-up builders because it's relatively simplicity and shape fidelity. I obtained the above mentioned kit with barter.

  The Hungarian Air Force in 1998, celebrated its 60th anniversary. A Fly Day was held on that occasion on the air base of Kecskemet where I could see the No. 22 MIG-29 with gala painting on it. I built the mock-up without upgrade I rather focused on the look.

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  After a few weeks of work, I begun to prepare the mock-up for painting with titillation. At first the entire surface of it was mopped up with slight alcohol swabs. After comparing the photos it was blue blown. This blue color was a mixture of Humbrol 25 and some white paint. At the tricolor of fin and the large national symbol on the back a pattern made from painter tape is used (white H34, red H174, green H131 in this order). To paint the yellow 60 numbers I used thin brush. The numbers were followed by the white stars, there are three kind of white stars can be found on the mock-up rotated to each-other plus the big four uneven-pointed star on the front side. The patterns are made from projector film and were blown off one by one. After every third one I had to clean the patterns from the paint. This made my work slower, but the mock-up began to resemble to the airplane on the Fly Day.

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  The pictures from the original showed that some places the original colors were visible. These places were masked before painting therefore I did the same. After matt lacquering the antennas and other sensors took their place. The Pitot-tube is made from an injection needle, the IFF and knife antennas from plastic butter box-top, the angle measurement from cooper plate and the discharger from pulled thread.

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  I delighted much in it after it became ready, as I do today also. It got a perpetual parking place on a main location of my cabinet.

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  Best regards, Robi from Hungary

                                                                                photos and text by Robert Serfőző