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"The Mig-17.  I wanted to include something from the Egyptians in this diorama but it was getting too crowded for another large vehicle (originally I thought a T-55 or something like that).  The idea came to me after I looked at a Yom Kippur war photo album showing some Israeli soldiers posing with a MiG-17 tail section.  Interesting thing I noticed in a few other photos of crashed MiG-17 wreckage was the tail section seems to frequently detach, intact, from the rest of the fuselage.  I happened to have bought a couple of Trumpeter MiG-17 models for next to nothing a few years ago and decided to sacrifice the fuselage, engine and tailplanes for the greater good.  It also gave me a chance to try out the \"Nile\" camouflage scheme on this project before I do a full version on another (intact) model.  I chopped, ground, heated and bent and added control cables, reinforcing frames and the end result is definitely a crashed plane.  I'm sure it could be improved but in the end I was happy with the outcome. \n \n \n \n \n \n"
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