Mig-17 cruise missile

[finsrin]

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.

[FAAMAN]

Nice and different, well done  :)

[Brian da Basher]

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

[Volkodav]

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.

[Tophe]

Interesting, thanks! (but very secret, ssht: don't say this was Real)

[Jeffry Fontaine]

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?

[kitnut617]

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=_

[The Big Gimper]

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.

[finsrin]

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.

[Tophe]

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?

[finsrin]

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.

[The Big Gimper]

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.