Banjo's Sketch and Model Blog

Just some guy that likes to build model airplanes and occasionally puts pencil to paper. I'm an equestrian, a professional slacker, and a history dork at heart.

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The MiG-17 “Fresco” - WTF Is This Model?

Okay, that’s it. From now on the MiG-17 build posts are going to just be roasting the hell out of this model, because it HAS to easily be the most vague, contradicting, confusing, flimsy model I’ve ever built. I’ve been whipping out these bad boys since 3rd grade, so that says a lot.

Anyway, today I decided to build the wings. As usual, construction was very flimsy- I could break this non-reinforced wing just by looking at it.

This model is weird. This is the actual placement for these wing fillets. Nutty.

Here’s to having to reinforce these wings with more stringers from other models, because... Jesus, I really know this will snap like a twig. Anyway, stand by for more “greatness”, if you want to call it that.

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The MiG-17 “Fresco” - A Very Odd Build

So what else are we supposed to do when you’re confined to your own home? Get into old hobbies, of course!

Today I started work on the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17, a Russian fighter aircraft built in the early 50′s. In my attempt to expand my horizons, I found this interesting non-Guillows model that I wanted to give a try, and maybe get more of if this one was any good.

So right off the bat, this got really weird to me really quick. Usually there’s a way to cut the plans in half without ruining the blueprints, however it’s not a possibility with this model. It’s a much bigger pain in the neck to have to fold them up and build the model on top of extra layers of paper.

Today I built the elevator, and one thing became apparent immediately- there weren’t any numbers on the parts! That was a real shocker, and it turns out there’s a separate paper with a parts list followed by their number, and you sort of have to figure out which parts are which from there, which was pretty inconvenient. Shown below is the completed stabilizer, with my own written-on pieces:

Notice that I had to add additional support to the structure, this is due to the elevator being very thin and fragile with this model. I had to use a lot of stringers to reinforce it so it wouldn’t break on me.

But that’s all for now friendos, stand by for more!

-Hog

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lmao imagine volunteering to fly for the Royal Air Force to help defend your homeland during WWII, just to be told you’re assigned to fly the Boulton Paul Defiant

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I always liked to imagine that GLaDOS composed “Still Alive” in the very last seconds of her running before she was destroyed. There’s no doubt that an Aperture Science super-computer has the processing power to pump out a simplistic music box-backed song like that.

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Fallout's bloody mess perk be like:

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