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HET-RC and RC-wardbrids have finished their development of the retract modification kit for this Mig-29 with their Mini Air retracts which reckon to hold up weight up to 3kg.

I am glad to get my hands on this MIG 29 with their prototype retract modification kit. BTW, mounts and retracts are being installed by RC-warbirds.

Specifications:
Wing Span.....................: 960 mm (37.8'')
Weight...........................: 2500 grams (88 oz)
Length...........................: 1380 mm (54.3'')
EDF unit.........................: 2x HET-RC 690
Motor.............................: 2x HET-RC Typhoon 2W-20

Great details

Front retract. Mounts and retracts are being installed by RC-warbirds.

Steering

Main retract

Powered by 2 coke cans. LOL.. haha..

OK, let's get it started with the wings installation. Sand down the surface of the joining section to have a better bonding with epoxy.

Next, trail fitted with the supplied hardwood wing joint into to the pre-cut slot on fuselage to see if it fits nicely before applying epoxy.

Epoxy the wing onto the main fuselage and ensure that the LE and TE are align with the fuselage. Hold the wing in position with some masking tapes while waiting for the epoxy to cure.

There you go, port side wing is done and now I will have to do the same for the starboard wing.

I have installed the control horns and secured them with screw just behind the pivot hole.

To get rid of those ulgy joining lines on the fuselage, putty was being applied before sanding it down.

Drill a 3mm hole for the pivot rod on 55mm from the end of the fuselage and 6mm from the bottom. Next ,insert and epoxy the pivot rod in place.

Mmmm.. looks more like a Jet now.

I had drilled holes on the air vents for better ventilation and also make it more scale looking.

Servo mount

Estimated AUW of this MIG is 2.5-2.6kg. Therefore, I had decided to use higher torque servos on the elevon which required to cut some areas on the bottom of the fuselage inoder to sit in the servo.

I did a trail fit on those vertical fins before epoxy them with mixture of mirco ballons and it also did some minor trimming on the edge of the vertical fins to have a better fit. Once I had confirmed the alignment is correct, I applied 30mins epoxy along the inside edge of the vertical fins and clamped them in place with clamps as shown in the picture above.