Trumpeter 1/32 MiG-19PM Farmer
By Ted Taylor
This is one of the latest releases from Trumpeter and it comes with 3 sets of markings all with overall silver finish, Russian, East German and Chinese but, as usual, I wanted something different. I found a whole lot of markings for MiGs on the Internet at http://www.geocities.com/alvmaia/Mig/19pm/ [Editor's Note: This link is now dead].
The model is well detailed with loads of doors open to show the interior parts including these two lovely engines which are made up from plastic parts and resin mouldings plus loads of pipe work on two separate frames.
The cockpit is nicely detailed with separate side walls and an instrument panel with film backing, a detailed HUD and control stick, the seat while nicely done has no seat belts at all so you will need pics to add these.
The cockpit tub links up with the intake splitter and the nose instrument bay where there is a removable Panel to view the interior detail and this unit fits nicely into the front fuselage halves and nose ring.
If you are going to fit the engines then there are removable panels on either side of the front fuselage to view these detailed items, if you want to you can display them on the two stand/trolleys provided.
The two halves of the fuselage fit together like a dream with no filler at all and the wings just slide into the slot on the fuselage side as though they were built for it, blanking plates are provided if you want to display the complete engines or you can put the ends of the engines on at the tail pipe end.
The rear fuselage halves carries the air brakes at the rear sides while a third is on the underside centre line of the front half. The wheels are nicely detailed with separate hubs and the wing missile pylons are the best fit I have ever seen yet the tank pylons need a bit of sorting to get them level.
The canopy is very clear and is built to be movable but I have glued mine shut as with the display panels, there are a number of alternative parts to build the Chinese F-6B. My decal sheet was a problem as the first item I wetted broke up and I had to cover the whole sheet with Microscale liquid decal film. On the whole an excellent kit, easy to build and fits together so easily.
© Ted Taylor
This article was published on Wednesday, July 20 2011; Last modified on Saturday, June 09 2018