[Nockers]

Hawkone Has listed a Mig 21-from Egypt for May release
I would like to see one a quarter
A few to consider

Photo by Stuart Freer
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MF-75 Lancer C Romanian Air Force

Image originally posted on Airliners.net

Photo by Alex Waning
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Air Force of the Czech Republic

Image originally posted on Airliners.net

Photo by Alister Bridges
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MF Air Force of the Czech Republic Splinter camouflage ? Experimental

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[Celtic]

Check this out. There are samples of over 400 camo schemes from over 60 different countries for the MiG-21.

[Nockers]

One of my favorites was this one/
I perfer the photos over drawings



Or the one and only

[Raven]

All I can say is please focus on OPERATIONAL SCHEMES and avoid the glitzy, one-off, airshow planes. Just give us some down and dirty, workhorse MiG-21's from the Soviet Union, Warsaw Pac, Middle East, SEA, and maybe a few other 3rd world nations. I'll buy a lot of them, I promise!

[Kiwi Dave]

Originally Posted by Raven

All I can say is please focus on OPERATIONAL SCHEMES and avoid the glitzy, one-off, airshow planes. Just give us some down and dirty, workhorse MiG-21's from the Soviet Union, Warsaw Pac, Middle East, SEA, and maybe a few other 3rd world nations. I'll buy a lot of them, I promise!

Couldn't agree more! Glitzy, one-off, airshow planes are non sellers.

[FormerViperDriver]

Originally Posted by Kiwi Dave

Couldn't agree more! Glitzy, one-off, airshow planes are non sellers.

Kiwi Dave,

I don't think that's true in general. They may be non-sellers to you, but other collectors actually like them. Matter of personal preferrence. I, like you, would rather see operational liveries, but I'm not beyond buying one-off schemes if it's special enough and well executed. My collection is probably about 90% "operational" (I include liveries of specific pilots/aces, etc.. in that category) and 10% "specials," but I can see why someone would skew their percentages more towards the latter.

Some of the special "airshow" liveries produced by certain companies have sold very well. I do agree that the first release of a subject should not be an airshow scheme, though.

FVD

[hawkonevoodoo]

Originally Posted by FormerViperDriver

Kiwi Dave,

I don't think that's true in general. They may be non-sellers to you, but other collectors actually like them. Matter of personal preferrence. I, like you, would rather see operational liveries, but I'm not beyond buying one-off schemes if it's special enough and well executed. My collection is probably about 90% "operational" (I include liveries of specific pilots/aces, etc.. in that category) and 10% "specials," but I can see why someone would skew their percentages more towards the latter.

Some of the special "airshow" liveries produced by certain companies have sold very well. I do agree that the first release of a subject should not be an airshow scheme, though.

FVD

I think Hobby Master has been doing a pretty good job with diversity, like KD said, some people like show planes but the majority like operational themes. I feel Hobby Master has a good blend of both but they have to get their timing down for show plane releases and I'm working on that so they are released later in the schedule.

[Kiwi Dave]

I don't mind show planes, but would prefer operational schemes were done first. I don't only want British and US schemes in my collection, but most other nations aircraft that we get are of show planes such as:
Greek F-104
Belgian F-16
Dutch F-16
German AF Tornado
Belgian Hunter
Aussie Sea King
Venezuelan F-16s
Dutch Meteor
etc

We then get told by the manufacturers that foreign aircraft shemes are not popular and don't sell, so they are reluctant to do anymore. If these aircraft were produced in operational schemes I'm sure they would sell much better.

[FormerViperDriver]

Just goes to show it's hard to please everyone.

In the case of the HM MiG-21, I waited until the Russian Air Force version came out to buy one, because I didn't want a one-off scheme (Big Fish), or the Luftwaffe version either (it was only in service with them for a very short time and in very low numbers) even though they both looked good. I'm still pondering the Iraqi one.

But the Russian one was so obvious that I really wonder why it wasn't made first.

FVD

[admin]

How about the Iraqi defector? The same plane could effectively be produced in three schemes

• Iraqi
• US
• Israeli

A MiG-21 operated by the Israel Air Force?
Repoted to have defected (ex Iraqi AF) this MiG spent some time in the U.S.A. for evaluation before it returned to Israel. The serial '007' has been allocated by someone with a sense of humuor. It has recently been repainted keeping the James Bond serial number.