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Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: perttime on October 26, 2013, 12:36:58 AM

Title: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
Post by: perttime on October 26, 2013, 12:36:58 AM

I didn't see an inspiration thread for MiG-3 (or MiG-1, and other close relatives)...

It seems to me, that a DB605 engine (with Motorkanone?) would fit on a MiG 3.
It might require a taller landing gear, though? Or just shorter prop blades and more of them.

Here's a couple of 1942 aircraft recognition pages on MiG-1. Notice the open cockpit used in the drawings:

Title: Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
Post by: Daryl J. on October 26, 2013, 12:52:26 AM

1 word: Batplane

Title: Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
Post by: GTX_Admin on October 26, 2013, 03:48:33 AM

(http://www.doomisland2.com/images/profiles/rcaf_mig-3_mohawk_.jpg)

More here:   MiG - A Canadian Success Story!  (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=64.0)

Title: Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
Post by: Cliffy B on October 26, 2013, 07:38:33 AM

Is it wrong to think that that MiG looks sooooo right in those colors and markings?  8)

Title: Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
Post by: elmayerle on October 26, 2013, 07:44:34 AM

I wonder how an ALiison-powered MiG-3 would look?  Either Lend-lease engines or an after-war, after fall of Soviet Union, more likely, version for warbird enthusiasts, much like the Allison-powered Yaks that appeared.

Title: Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
Post by: GTX_Admin on October 26, 2013, 09:25:00 AM

I suspect it would look very similar.

Title: Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
Post by: GTX_Admin on October 26, 2013, 09:29:45 AM

I have long thought the MiG-3 looks like a Sovietized YP-37 (which had an Allison V-1710) :

(http://www.jitterbuzz.com/manreal/curtiss_yp37.jpg)

Title: Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
Post by: perttime on October 26, 2013, 03:40:18 PM

Quote from: elmayerle on October 26, 2013, 07:44:34 AM

I wonder how an ALiison-powered MiG-3 would look?

I'm pretty sure that at least some of the few currently flying MiG-3s were built with Allisons. Does this look like an Allison to you?

MIG-3 (Allison V-1710 powered) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/planephotography/2616368079/#)

Oh, for lots of material on the MiG-3 family, you've got to browse http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/mig3/mig3.html (http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/mig3/mig3.html)

Title: Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
Post by: GTX_Admin on October 27, 2013, 03:13:41 AM

I like the MiG-3-82:

(http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/mig3/i210.jpg)

Which you can get a kit of...if you are into such scales:

(http://www.pmilona.cz/937-1044-thickbox/mikojan-mig-3-s-motorem-m-82-i-210.jpg)

Title: Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
Post by: GTX_Admin on October 27, 2013, 03:15:40 AM

Random idea:  MiG-3 with rocket booster in tail.

Title: Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
Post by: GTX_Admin on October 27, 2013, 03:18:43 AM

Another random idea:  do a MiG-3 up in USAAC/USAAF scheme and see how many people you can fool into thinking it was really an American fighter prototype... :icon_ninja:

Title: Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
Post by: perttime on October 27, 2013, 06:15:44 PM

A Finnish MiG-3 would be a might-have-been...
In 1942, Germany was selling 20+ captured ones. They were never delivered, apparently because they were destroyed in an air raid.

... as if VL and the other factories needed to cope with another aircraft and engine type without any manuals...

Title: Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
Post by: GTX_Admin on October 28, 2013, 02:45:30 PM

You were saying...

(http://airshowsamerica.biz/cart/images/Yat%20Ming%20MiG-3%20Finland.jpg)

Title: Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
Post by: perttime on October 28, 2013, 03:30:58 PM

Somebody needs to find correct Finnish wartime "roundels"  :o  ;D