Radio Control: Scale
Which came first: the chicken or the egg? That resembles my question for Scale modelers this month. Which comes first: documentation or the Scale model? If your answer was the model, go back to the first question! The documentation should be gathered first, and this is the time of year that many modelers start thinking about that next project. Documenting an aircraft is fun if you take your time, and can accept the fact you may want to document several different aircraft at once. You could keep a file on future projects, and as you collect more material, drop it into the file folder. But by all means, collect three-views, photos, and color chips before building the model of your dreams.
Why Not Model...MiG-15
Growing up in the 1950s, you might have watched Steve Canyon on television, and if you were lucky, you went to the movies and saw John Wayne in Jet Pilot. The MiG was the jet that people loved to hate during the 1950s and 1960s. Since growing a little older, and hopefully a little wiser, many have grown to respect the Russian MiG-15, and later the MiG-17, for the fantastic aircraft they really were.
