photo coloured by Massimo Tessitori
"Under a skilful rider it rushed along like an arrow, but when you
lost control you could end up beneath its hoofs"
Alexander Pokryshkin, top
ace of VVS during the Great Patrioctic War
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photo coloured by Massimo Tessitori
"Under a skilful rider it rushed along like an arrow, but when you
lost control you could end up beneath its hoofs"
Alexander Pokryshkin, top
ace of VVS during the Great Patrioctic War
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| Project X (or K) | I-200 prototypes | modified I-200s | MiG-1 series |
| early MiG-3s | late type MiG-3s | modified MiG-3s | Moving to Kuybyshev |
| MiG-9 (I-210) | MiG-9E (I-211) | MiG-3U (I-230) | I-231 |
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in Novosibirsk |
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by Rusavia |
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a research of Alexey Matvienko translation by Alexander Ruchkovsky |
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green uppersurfaces |
green/dark green uppersurfaces. |
green/black uppersurfaces
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blotched uppersurfaces
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white blotches
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white uppersurfaces
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white overall |
captured
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| detail colors | color chips |
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| 1/72 model kits | Cap Croix De Sud
Italeri, Zvezda and Encore |
Red Star and Emhar | RPM
Maquette |
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| 1/48 model kits | Classic Airframes
Flashback |
ICM | Pomk | AModel |
| 1/32 model kits | Trumpeter | |||
| 1/72 accessories | photoetched set by Parts | resin wheels by Equipage | vacuform canopy from Falcon | decal sheet from
Travers |
| 1/48 accessories | decals for 1/48 kits from Aeromaster | resin wheels by Equipage | cockpit detail sheet by
Cutting Edge |
resin propeller by
Fusion |
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The best kit available in 1/72 scale is commercialized from Polish
firm RPM and from Russian Maquette firm; it is moulded in grey plastic,
and gives contrasting impressions: if compared with the best drawings available,
it is highly accurate and detailed, with engraved details. But, it has
an 'artisanal' look, with wide sprues, mold flash and some too thick pieces,
some with out-of-register moulding.
The panels aren't sharp and they should be improved. The fitting of pieces is poor and requires work, particularly on the fuselage and behind the canopy. The kit represents correctly the late version of the aircraft; the reproduction of early variant is possible with little modification. |
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Thanks to the following persons that have contributed to this work:
Audrius Nairanauskas for many
informations, traslations and images from Russian sources, and for having
kindly sent to me the book "Istrebitel MiG-3" of Medvedv, Hazanov,
Maslov as a kind gift; thank you Audrius.
Erik Pilawskii for his
consultancy about colors, camouflage schemes and some photos;
Jouni Ronkko for having
sent to me his collection of digital images and links;
Robert Peczkowski,
editor of Barbarossa Victims, for having sent to me informations and images
from the book;
Giovanni Carlassare for
having sent to me some photostats;
Kovalsky Alexey of the
firm "Avion" for his excellent photos of the aircraft restored in Novosibirsk;
Matthias Erben for some informations,
traslations and images;
Ilya Grimberg
for some informations and images;
Gianpiero Manca for some
images;
Stephane Wrobel
for some images, magazines and informations;
Andi Szekeres for some images
of the Rumanian captured aircraft;
Lee Jong Tae for some images;
Hannu Valtonen,
Director of the Tikkakoski FinnAF Museum, for some informations;
Dmitriy Sribny of
www.airforce.ru
for the photos of the MiG-3 replica in Monino;
Thomas Siepert for
photos of the wreckages of Tikkanoski Museum;
Rostislav Bardokin
for the photos of the wreckages from the Black Sea;
Aleksej Ilic of Gremlinmodels
for some scans;
Jan Koennig of www.Jetmodell.de,
www.rote-sterne.de
for some scans from his original photos;
Kai Mecklin,
Director of the Central Finland Aviation
Museum, for a lot of images;
Liuzimin for some scans;
Alexey Matvienko for
his research on the lenght of different versions of MiG-3 and for some
other help;
Alexander Ruchkovsky
for his help with traslations and other informations;
John Myers for his help
with bw photos interpretation;
István Vadász
for some scans and suggestions.
This work collects also a lot of photos and drawings from many sources, not always identified and mentioned.
If someone has some rights on the images here reproduced, please email to me and I shall provide to remove or to credit them.
While the historical photos are of public domain, my color profiles and coloured photos are copyrighted. If someone is interested in any use of them, please email me; higher resolution version is available for printing purposes.
If someone has questions, critiques or corrections, or some further
images to show, please email to me.
Massimo Tessitori
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