April 1973 Russian Jets Special

In this issue

Inside the April 1973 Russian jets special issue

This 44-page double issue, Volume 3 Numbers 3 and 4, is devoted to Soviet jet aircraft and the kits available to modelers in 1973. It begins with a correction guide for Airfix's MiG-15 and an extensive markings survey for MiG-15 and UTI trainers in Soviet, East German, Chinese, Czechoslovak, Polish, Hungarian, Egyptian, Romanian, Algerian, North Vietnamese, Cambodian, Indonesian, Pakistani, Nigerian, Finnish, and Moroccan service.

The special continues through MiG-17F and PF variants, the MiG-19 Farmer and KP kit, and a broad MiG-21 Fishbed and UTI Mongol section comparing Hasegawa, Airfix, IMC, and Tamiya releases. An Airfix Il-28 Beagle review identifies corrections and international schemes. Drawings, camouflage notes, national insignia, kit-conversion advice, “A MiG by Any Other Name,” and a substantial reference bibliography make the issue a period modeling guide rather than a routine chapter newsletter.