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Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: finsrin on March 15, 2015, 02:51:48 PM

Title: Mig-17 cruise missile
Post by: finsrin on March 15, 2015, 02:51:48 PM
Attached picture is of 1/152 Malka Bros. Mig-17PF built as 1/72 cruise missile.
Sanded off canopy.  No landing gear.  Painted camo.
Raw kit on sprue and finished.  1/72 Sherman and SBDJ Dauntless II included for size comparison.
Can set up V-1 style rail launcher and/or be air launched.
Title: Re: Mig-17 cruise missile
Post by: FAAMAN on March 15, 2015, 04:19:04 PM
Nice and different, well done  :)
Title: Re: Mig-17 cruise missile
Post by: Brian da Basher on March 15, 2015, 06:42:29 PM
Wow that's really cool, Bill!

I'd have never thought to turn a small MiG into a cruise missile. You've got a wicked imagination!

I especially like the snaky camo pattern!

Brian da Basher
Title: Re: Mig-17 cruise missile
Post by: Volkodav on March 15, 2015, 06:49:06 PM
Cool, really cool!  The Raduga KS-1 Komet or NATO AS1 Kennel apparently had aerodynamics derived from the MIG 15 so a MIG 17 derived cruise missile follows quite well.
Title: Re: Mig-17 cruise missile
Post by: Tophe on March 15, 2015, 07:56:08 PM
Interesting, thanks! :D (but very secret, ssht: don't say this was Real) ;)
Title: Re: Mig-17 cruise missile
Post by: Jeffry Fontaine on March 16, 2015, 02:26:01 AM
That is definitely a small model that you started with Bill.  Nice easy conversion to a missile but what are you going to have carrying the thing?
Title: Re: Mig-17 cruise missile
Post by: kitnut617 on March 16, 2015, 04:35:28 AM
Well it's not that far off a real thing --

https://www.google.ca/search?q=Mig-17+like+cruise+missile&biw=1389&bih=842&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=nuwFVdKdIc-eoQSp3ILoCA&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&tbs=rimg%3ACQDCiStmxCNdIjghwnAsI8kW9lgb8nOG5jS0_1z1x0VlpYyoiUMh4rZ15uYsl-pR1s_1iCo_15TXqbaKiXYylnpAXOojioSCSHCcCwjyRb2Ed-wimWzahKtKhIJWBvyc4bmNLQRtGxgYlwGOpsqEgn_1PXHRWWljKhHt9wbUXh3ajCoSCSJQyHitnXm5EXCoqXllRUSIKhIJiyX6lHWz-IIR37CKZbNqEq0qEgmj_1lNeptoqJREeBxSFnqaIpioSCdjKWekBc6iOEWVbXYSanaS6&q=Mig-17%20like%20cruise%20missile&imgdii=_ (https://www.google.ca/search?q=Mig-17+like+cruise+missile&biw=1389&bih=842&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=nuwFVdKdIc-eoQSp3ILoCA&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&tbs=rimg%3ACQDCiStmxCNdIjghwnAsI8kW9lgb8nOG5jS0_1z1x0VlpYyoiUMh4rZ15uYsl-pR1s_1iCo_15TXqbaKiXYylnpAXOojioSCSHCcCwjyRb2Ed-wimWzahKtKhIJWBvyc4bmNLQRtGxgYlwGOpsqEgn_1PXHRWWljKhHt9wbUXh3ajCoSCSJQyHitnXm5EXCoqXllRUSIKhIJiyX6lHWz-IIR37CKZbNqEq0qEgmj_1lNeptoqJREeBxSFnqaIpioSCdjKWekBc6iOEWVbXYSanaS6&q=Mig-17%20like%20cruise%20missile&imgdii=_)
Title: Re: Mig-17 cruise missile
Post by: The Big Gimper on March 16, 2015, 04:53:23 AM
Who knew that 1/156 would be the perfect scale for VVS cruise missiles.

A Tu-16 could carry at least three.

Excellent demonstration of non-linear thinking Bill.
Title: Re: Mig-17 cruise missile
Post by: finsrin on March 16, 2015, 10:23:40 AM
Thanks for comments.  Yes, is much like that RW cruise missile.  Since I build all to be 1/72 this was obvious thing to try.  Have 23 left to build same cept try different color schemes.  The "kits" are more toy than model.  Styrene glue does not work.  Material is more a Tupperware than anything else. 
Archipelago diorama can have ground launcher site while some are under bomber wings like unfinished B-201.
Couple can be on trucks being transported to launch site.
Kits have drop tanks.  Can include those on missiles doing longer range strikes.
Title: Re: Mig-17 cruise missile
Post by: Tophe on March 16, 2015, 12:51:32 PM
but what are you going to have carrying the thing?
I was hoping an answer like "obviously, with this central tall fin on the missile, the carrier must be twin-boom...". No?
Title: Re: Mig-17 cruise missile
Post by: finsrin on March 16, 2015, 01:59:43 PM
but what are you going to have carrying the thing?
I was hoping an answer like "obviously, with this central tall fin on the missile, the carrier must be twin-boom...". No?

Hmmmmm,,,   Perhaps C-119 with cockpit-cargo section shaved off 1-2ft down.  Cockpit-crew section on top of wing.
CM-17 (Cruise Missile 17) pylons below running length of center section.  At least one pylon under each outer wing.
Ya know --- am on to something here !
Thanks for twin boom mental push.
Title: Re: Mig-17 cruise missile
Post by: The Big Gimper on March 16, 2015, 06:32:35 PM
but what are you going to have carrying the thing?
I was hoping an answer like "obviously, with this central tall fin on the missile, the carrier must be twin-boom...". No?

Hmmmmm,,,   Perhaps C-119 with cockpit-cargo section shaved off 1-2ft down.  Cockpit-crew section on top of wing.
CM-17 (Cruise Missile 17) pylons below running length of center section.  At least one pylon under each outer wing.
Ya know --- am on to something here !
Thanks for twin boom mental push.

A zwilling made up of two C-119s or two Noratlas's. Three CM-17s. One on each outboard with and one between the fuselages.  The Noratlas has a more Soviet Bloc look to it and from the images of the kit, It looks to be an easier zwilling build. Give one side a big nose treatment with Yak-25 Flashlight schnoz.