Early Hasegawa Russian Mig-21 Fishbed C

Cleanup begins. 

Found an ersatz 'burner can'. Going to replace the anemic pilot. 

Wings mostly cleaned up. Will need to fix a small sink mark on the port aileron. 

One fuselage half will need the short-shot starboard MLG wheel bay fixed, the other has several small sinkholes. 

Had to cut the ends off the stab actuator connector. Probably would not have been as much of a PINA if I had a way to clamp it into a small miter box! 

The outer stab - fuselage join area is going to need to be filled. 

Got both plugs ground down enough to get my 'burner can' substitute into the tail end. The white block is a support to superglue it into place and hold it. 

Shoot! Wasn't paying as much attention as I should have and the backing I was putting on for the inner Main Landing Gear door shifted!! Well, lucky that I got plenty of scrap plastic but still more work... 

Still difficult to beat Squadron putty for minor sink marks & imperfections! 

A long way to go but the new pilot looks happy enough! ;-D 

Went to put a coat of paint in the cockpit area last night and the batch I mixed up was more an Olive Drab color than Russian Turquoise! That's OK - I'll find an instruction sheet for the Tamiya mix tonight and give it another go. 

This old Revell 1/144 Boeing 747 stand will do fine as a stable mount for this little 1/72 MiG-21F-13! It wasn't until after I was almost done putting it together that I remember the Zvezda kits have a very nice stand that I could have used!! 

Reinforced the area around the fuselage were I put the orifice for the stand. Less chance of it doing the Wibbly Wobbly dance!! ????