Wrocław, Poland, 1954. The tenuous relationship between the Soviet Union and their western neighbour has been strained by attempted and successful defections to the West with the new MiG-15 jet, leading to a reluctance to supply MiG-15bis.
Instead, domestic production of the original pattern airframe has been authorised, but with production of the Polish built, licenced copies of the MiG-15 facing production delays, the Polish Air Force sourced 60 of the jet fighters from Czech factories instead to fill out its squadrons, replacing dated Yak-23s.
This was a cheeky quick build that actually didn't take too long to do. I was already finishing up a few builds that needed silver spray paint, so I thought I could just add another airframe into the pile.
The Eduard kit is a few years old but goes together very easily and with really nice detail. The only difficulty comes with the split side seam that takes a lot of work to hide for an unforgiving metallic finish.
I went with Polish scheme after reading about the Polish use of the Czech jets in the excellent Polish Wings book. A few weeks later, Marek of Shelf Oddity announced a decal set that covered a few of these air frames, so I waited until I could get a pack from him at SMW in November.
https://shelfoddity.com/index.php?route ... uct_id=346
These lovely decals go on very easily. As the airframe is quite new I didn't weather, but used a semi-gloss varnish to represent the duller finish on these aluminium powder coated types.
I kept the diorama simple. Reference photos provided the concrete base texture. The truck is a 3d print from Paint and Glue Minatures. Name plate from Name It Plates.
For once a quick build came along smoothly and added a simple but interesting new addition to the display collection which will appear on the SIG144 table at shows nationwide this year. Thanks for reading, comments welcome.
