Heres my offering for the 'That wasnt in the box!' GB. Its going to be a cross kitted conversion , taking a MiG 15 BIS and a Shenyang JJ5 ,splicing them and hopefully coming out with a Mig 15 UTI 2 seat trainer. The victims are the 1/32 Trumpeter JJ5 and the 1/32 Frog MiG 15 BIS (actually a rebox of Trumpeters MiG 15 ) They look similar to anyone not familiar with MiGs but the JJ5 is actually a chinese 2 seat conversion of the MiG 17 , a very different bird to the MiG 15 (more sharply swept wings ,larger tail , longer fuselage, different airbrakes etc.). Mikoyan themselves never made a 2 seat MiG 17 ,so the chinese did the same sort of thing I'm planning- they took the cockpit section of a MiG 15 uti and grafted it into a MiG 17 airframe, the reverse of what my build involves.The Trumpeter (Frog) kit of the 15 has a few issues , mainly the totally bogus canopy shape but the canopy on the JJ5 is spot on for a UTI so thats why I decided to cross them and get an accurate 'Midget' Heres some sprue shots , the white ones are some of the bits I'll be using from the JJ5 , plus the canopies of course , the different colours should also help show up whats been spliced in . So its razor saw and p cutter at the ready , roll on April 1st !!! cheers tony
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