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I-200 prototypes colors and paintingupdated on August 16, 2005 file name: colors0.html

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I-200 no.01 (march 1940) I-200 no.01 (may 1940) I-200 no. 02

I-200 no.03 I-200 no.04, the prototype of MiG-3 MiG-3 AM-38F

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I-200 no.01File updated on August 16, 2005 file name: i200-01.html

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These profiles represent the I-200 no.01, the first prototype of the MiG family, in different times.

in March 1940

in May 1940
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This was the first configuration of No.01 in March 1940. We see the silver overall finish. On the other side, the oil

cooler was slightly smaller than the later configuration. The canopy was removed for easier bailing out.

The no.01 in its configuration after May 1940 with grey finish, a red lightning and the canopy, that was openable

The aircraft differs from early type MiG-

3 for:

the length was still 8,15 m; the canopy conformation was

different; an one-piece

windshield, a rightward opening

shield, a short clear rear part; bulges and intakes over the nose

were absent; only the lower bulge

under the nose, containing the

cooler and lubrification pumps,

was present;

there was a predisposition forguns installations with recessed

outlets (instead than partially

protruding as on MiG-1 and 3);

the small inlets for ignitors andthe one on the low-left part of thenose were absent, as the cooling

slots in front of the windshield;

the central one under the nose

was particularly small; the small

intake in right-low position was

present;

there are some minor differencesin panels division, particularly

the exhaust shields and the panels

with 6 slots;

the tail wheel door had not anybulge nor window;

the underwing removable panelsfor guns pods ammo were absent;

the supercharger intakes at thewingroots were different than

those of MiG-3, particularly for

having a shorter upper lip;


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from outside only.

A detail of the nose. This configuration of the oil cooler on the left side only has already been enlarged, but it was

replaced by a cooler on each side in August 1940..

the water radiator fairing wasdifferent to those of MiG-3, and

apparently smaller than those of

no.02 and 03;

the main landing gear weredifferent from MiG-3; they had

smaller wheels, different doors

shape, and foldable wheel flapsas on I-16, instead of the wheel

doors as on MiG-3;

the oil cooler was installed onlyon the left side of nose, and the

shutter is on his air inlet rather

than on the outlet; it was the only

I-200 with this configuration;

the aircraft was painted silver,and it had a red lightning painted

on both his sides (not for his

whole life, in fact it doesn'tappear on one photo);

the prop blades were unpaintedalumimium.

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I-200 no.02File updated on March 25, 2005 file name: i200-02.html

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This profile represents the I-200 no.02, the second prototype of the MiG family.


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The no.01 in its standard configuration with a red lightning and the canopy, that was openable from outside only.

The aircraft differs from early type

MiG-3 for:

the length was still 8,15 m; the canopy conformation was

different; an one-piece

windshield, a rightward

opening shield, a short clear

rear part;

bulges and intakes over thenose were absent; only the

lower bulge under the nose,

containing the cooler and

lubrification pumps, was

present;

there was a predisposition forguns installations with

recessed outlets (instead than

partially protruding as onMiG-1 and 3);

the central air inlet under thenose was smaller than on MiG-

3;

there were some minordifferences in panels division,

particularly the exhaust shields

and the panels with 7 slots;

the tail wheel door had not anybulge nor window;

the underwing removablepanels for guns pods ammo

were absent;

the supercharger intakes at thewingroots were different than

those of MiG-3, particularly

for having a shorter upper lip;

the water radiator fairing was


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A detail of the nose. This configuration of the oil cooler was on both sides as on all series aircraft, but with sharper

shape. Note the asymmetrical inlet shapes, chosen to optimize the access of air moved by the propeller.

different to those of MiG-3;

the main landing gear weredifferent from MiG-3; they

had smaller wheels, different

doors shape, and foldablewheel flaps as on I-16, instead

of the wheel doors as on MiG-

3;

the oil cooler was installed onboth sides, but its inlet lip was

shorter and sharper than on

MiG-3;

the aircraft looks painted lightgrey overall;

the prop blades were unpaintedalumimium.


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The 01 after the spinning tests; the lightning was deleted; the canopy was removed for easy bailing out.

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I-200 no.03File updated on August 7, 2005 file name: i200-03.html


This profile represents the I-200 no.03.


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The aircraft differs from early type MiG-3 for:

the length was still 8,15 m (as one candeduct from the fact that the last exhaust

stack is overposed to the rear side plate);

the canopy conformation was different; anone-piece windshield, the predisposition for

a rightward rotating shield, a short rear part;

there are 7 ventilation slots on each side (ason I-200 No. 02 and 04, instead than 6 as on

early series MiG-3);

some bulges and intakes over the nose wereabsent, and a small air intake under the nose

was smaller;

the radio device, absent in photos, wasinstalled later, as the radio mast; they wereidentical to that of MiG-3;

the underwing removable panels for gunspods ammo were absent;

the aircraft was unmarked, and painted witha dark gloss color (possibly the same green

as the I-15bis);

the water radiator fairing and main landinggear were different from MiG-3; they had

smaller wheels, different doors shape, and

foldable wheel flaps as on I-16, instead of

the wheel doors as on MiG-3;

the intakes for side oil cooler tunnels had adifferent shape than those of MiG-3; they

were identical to those of I-200 No.02; the supercharger intakes at the wingroots had

shorter lips, particularly the upper ones;

metallic outer wing panels (it is the onlymember of the family to have this);

the aircraft was unmarked, and painted witha dark gloss color (possibly the same green


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as the I-15bis) with silver undersurfaces.


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Images from "Mikoyan's piston-engined fighters" of Gordon and Dexter



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I-200 no.04 (MiG-3 prototype)File updated on August 16, 2005 file name: i200-04.html


This profile represents the I-200 no.04, the MiG-3 prototype.


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The aircraft differs from early type MiG-3 for:

the length was still 8,15 m (as one candeduct from the fact that the last exhaust

stack is overposed to the rear side plate);

there are 7 ventilation slots on each side (ason I-200 No. 02 and 03, instead than 6 as on

early series MiG-3);

some bulges over the nose were absent, andsmall air intakes over and under the nose

were smaller;

the tail wheel door had no bulge norwindow; probably the wheel was slightly

smaller, as on series MiG-1s.

there were not radio devices; the underwing removable panels for guns

pods ammo were absent;

the aircraft was unmarked, and painted witha dark gloss color (possibly the same greenas the I-15bis).

The main undercarriage and ventral water

cooler/tank fairing were as on standard MiG-3s;

apart for this the aircraft was similar to a series

MiG-1.


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MiG-3 AM-38updated on April 10, 2005 file name: mig3am38.html

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This aircraft is the only MiG-3 fitted with the AM-38 engine in factory in August 1941. This engine gave higher power but less altitudecapability than the AM-35A. The aircraft had a significant improvement in its low-altitude performance, and outclassed even the Bf-109F.

The trials showed the necessity to redesign the oil and water radiators because of the higher heat generation of the new engine, and as well,the Il-2 program was prioritary for the use of the AM-38 engine. Because of these factors, the program was halted.A pair of other MiG-3s were re-engined in such way in operative units.

The characteristics look to be:

late type with slats; a small pipe on the left side, collecting inert exhast from the 2nd and 3rd stacks of the exhaust pipes for anti-flame inert gas system of

the fuel tanks;

exhaust pipes similar (if not identical) to the series examples; the aircraft carried two different configurations for exhaust stacks, I don'tknow if this is the early or the late one;

green and dark green camouflage; slightly oblique fuselage star, with black outline; particularly large stars under the wings;


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a (probably) red band on the top of the fin; "95" roughly painted (or drawn with chalk) on the fin; propeller blades with aluminium forward surface and black rear surface.


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MiG-1 and MiG-3 pre-war colors and paintingupdated on October 16, 2009 file name: colors1.html

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All the early series production MiG-1s and MiG-3s were painted with:

AII green uppersurfaces, light blue undersurfaces; six red stars (often contoured in black) on fuselage sides, wing upper and undersurfaces. propeller blades were left unpainted aluminium, with partially black painted rear surface, often very worn off by air abrasion. The pitot probe was light, probably light blue, with unpainted aluminium end.

This scheme was common for MiG-1s and early MiG-3s, till the war outbreak.The metal surfaces (aft fuselage, horizontal tail surfaces, central wing plan) appear lighter and worner than the wooden surfaces (rear

fuselage, outer wing panels); this is well visible on nearly all German photos (forthemost representing aircraft captured or wrecked during thefirst days of war), but not on Soviet photos (few of which represent this scheme, and they show forthemost new aircraft from the factory).The difference between green shades on wooden and metallic surfaces is very marked in aircrafts abandoned for a long time. It was probably

due to different painting techniques on separed sub-assemblies before the final assembly, that led paint on metal parts to fade quickly ifexposed to the sunlight.The green/blue demarcation line was sharp on the nose and metallic parts of the wing and tail, while it was soft on wooden parts; besides,wooden and metallic parts were painted before the final assembling, and this can be understood because demarcation lines are oftendiscontinued on junctions.This way to paint MiG-3s was abandoned more or less contemporarily to the war outbreak, and to the introduction of late type MiG-3.

MiG-1 yellow 5, 31 IAP MiG-1 red 6, 31 IAP MiG-1 red 8
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Kaunas, Lithuania, June 1941 Kaunas, Lithuania, June 1941 possibly 31 IAP, June 1941

MiG-1 white 7

June 1941

white 1, 31 IAP,

Kaunas, Lithuania June 1941

rough 1,

Lithuania June 1941

white 17, unknown unit,

June 1941

3 digit 220,

unknown unit, June 1941

3 digit 564,

unknown unit, June 1941

yellow 3, 31 IAP,Kaunas, Lithuania June 1941

azure 8, unknown unit,June 1941

red 14, 31 IAP,Kaunas, Lithuania June 1941

MiG-3 of unknown unit, June 1941 MiG-3 of 401 IAP, July 1941 MiG-3 of 401 IAP, July 1941

MiG-3 of 401 IAP, July 1940 MiG-3 of 401 IAP, July 1940red 1, lt.Estyen, 5 IAP KBF,

Finland July 1941

MiG-3 that defectioned in Rumania, MiG-3 n.2115
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Melitopol, December 1941 NII-VVS, January/February 1941

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MiG-3 colors: standard bands schemesupdated on April 3, 2009 file name: colors2.html

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The introduction of bands camouflage painted on in factory looks to have been more or less contemporary to the war outbreak and to the

introduction of the late type MiG-3.While the aircraft were probably painted AII green and light blue when still disassembled, the darker bands were painted on alreadyassembled planes, and don't show interruptions on panel lines; the quick fading of the AII green visible on German photos of solid-greenpainted aircraft is not visible on camouflaged aircraft, perhaps because it is covered by camo bands, and/or because few operative MiG-3s hada life long enough to fade.Two colors are known to be used to paint darker bands:

AII dark green (low contrast on bw photos) AII black (higher contrast on bw photos).

It is difficult to distinguish black bands from dark green bands on bw wartime photos; this is probably due to the quick fading of the black, todust or to the use of thinned black paint over green background.Some wrecks (not of MiG-3s) in Finnish museums seem to show the use of black green paint, unknown on Soviet sources and possibly made

by mixing black with green paint.The use of dark green looks to have been more common during the summer of 1941, while the use of black looks more common during falland winter 1941.The camo bands on the wings appear forthemost longitudinal from the leading to the back edge; few images show different, Spitfire-likeoblique and interrupted bands.The red stars were forthemost in six positions: fuselage sides, tail, wing undersurfaces.

Originally the red stars were plain or with a thin black outline; occasionally white outlines were seen in 1941/42; the use of wide whiteoutlines was generalized in 1943/44, when MiG-3s were no longer used on first line units.

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NII-VVS test aircraft MiG-3 AM-38F white 04, Cap. Polyakov, 7 IAP, Leningrad front June 1941

yellow 5 with UB pods,possibly fall 1941

yellow 32possibly summer 1941

rough 28 captured by Germans,unknown unit

Za Rodinu, unknown unit,

summer 1941silver 46, 6 IAK Moscow PVO

MiG-3 of captain A.A. Lipilin,

41 IAP, July 1941, Moscow front

blue 19 of 162 IAP,

Leningrad front, summer 1942

cutten 76

Moscow front, summer 1941

white 67, 7IAK/PVO

Leningrad 1941

"smert nemetskim okkupantam!" ,

Moscow front

red 17,

Moscow front, winter 1941/42

2 GSAP/VVS-SF, Vayenga

spring 1942

red 47, 12 GIAP

Vnukovo, March 1942

yellow 21 of 7 IAP

Black Sea Fleet, Kuban, 1943.

white 28 of 7 IAP

Black Sea Fleet, Kuban, 1943.
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blue 1

Moscow fronttail ski

white 1 of Black Sea Fleet

62 IAP VVS ChF

White 5, outlined

unknown unit

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25/98

White TailLast Updated on April 15, 2005 file name: whitail.html


This short-nosed example features a white rudder and forward spinner worn on a standard low-contrast green and dark green camouflage.

Two photos of this example are available: the first one (from MiG OKB) shows clearly the neat demarcation line between the camouflage and

the light blue undersurfaces on the nose, the second one (found on the Web) shows the camo on the fuselage. The white bands on the wingsand horizontail tail surface is the sky's light reflection on the wet surfaces.

The demarcation line between camouflage and light blue undersurfaces is not visible on the rear fuselage behind the radiator cowling;probably it is oblique, as usual.

The white rudder and the left wing root appear worn; the black band on the blade's rear surface has nearly all disappeared.
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28/98

a (probably) red band on the top of the fin; "95" roughly painted (or drawn with chalk) on the fin; propeller blades with aluminium forward surface and black rear surface.


29/98

This plan view is hypothetical, based on the similarity of the profile camo scheme with the

example "white 04".



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Shotdown Yellow 5updated on April 5, 2005 file name: shotdown5..html


This profile represents an example of an unknown unit, that made a forced landing.The photo has a very low contrast, and at first glance it looks an overall green aircraft without stars. This would be odd. Besides, the aircraft is

a late production MiG-3, so the photo is probably taken in autumn 1941, when MiGs were always camouflaged.Observing carefully the photo, one can see (or think to see):

it is a long-nosed example, with slats; it is armed with underwing gun pods; low contrast green/dark green camouflage, with reasonable concordance with usual scheme; a medium size red star on the fuselage, and a small size star on the tail, behind the yellow 5; the hypothetic tail star is very uncertain,

but the strong displacement of the 5 digit looks to confirm its presence. it looks without radio devices; ther mast is not visible, but it could have been removed with the nose panels; the radio boxes behind the

seat look absent too;

there is the small pipe for inert gas anti-fire fuel tanks system over the left side exhaust stacks; the tail wheel looks extracted in spite of being the main undercarriage retracted; probably it was locked fixed in low position; the propeller blades look unusually painted, probably black or green.


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These details with enhanced contrast are to evidence where I think to see traces of

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Za RodinuUpdated on October 13, 2005 file name: zarodinu.html


This aircraft was captured by Germans in the first period of war, probably in fall 1941.


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This image allows to see that the plane had the

sliding hood and the antenna mast.

from barbarossa Victims


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This image shows part of the camo.

Note the early type tail wheel doors.

The star looks deleted on this image, but further

documents demonstate that it was present, even if in

bit unusual position and size.

from barbarossa Victims

The image below shows clearly the tail star, and

hides strangely the fuselage one. This could be due

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Silver 46updated on August 16, 2005 file name: silver46.html


This aircraft is believed to be from the 6 IAD, Moscow PVO, spring 1942.

There exist three photos showing three apparently identical fighters, numbered 44, 45 and 46; they are late production types, armed withrockets, flying with open canopy and open rear undercarriage with doors open.The spinner looks unusually pointed; probably it has the tooth for the starter.


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Lipilin's AircraftLatest update on 5 April, 2005 file name: lipilin.html



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This profile represents the aircraft of captain A.A. Lipilin, 41 IAP, that shot down a German

reconaissance aircraft at an altitude of 8000 m on July 27, 1941, on the Moscow front.

The photo shows only a small portion of the aircraft; some details are hypothetical.

it is an early model MiG-3 (as one can see from the tail wheel doors), with radio devicesand probably without slats;

there is a white 5 and a small round on the tail; there looks to be a red 11 painted over it;a large 0 is on low position, and the star is unusually small;

there was probably a red star painted on the fuselage (as on nearly all the MiGs) withoutfurther numbers (there are already too many ones on the tail);

the black camo bands look unusually soft, but the overall scheme looks similar to oneseen on photos of many other MiGs; it could be field painted, on the all green

background typical of early MiGs (this could justify the unusually small tail star as

painted on the field too; the first examples had no tail stars; the factory camouflaged

aircrafts had a far larger star); hand brush painting is visible on the fuselage side;

the spinner was probably green, as on most MiG-3s.


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The aircraft bears a green/black camouflage; where not visible on the photo, it was drawn

on the base of a similar scheme drawn by Erik Pilawskii.



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Blue 19updated on April 5, 2005 file name: blue19.html


This profile represents an example of 162 IAP, 43 IAD, Leningrad front, summer 1942.Its characteristics seem to be:

it is a late type aircraft, with radio devices;

a dark gloss number, probably blue 19, can be seen on a side, and is partially superimposed over the fuselage star (I think the number isblue, not black, because it is partially covers a black camo band, and this should obscure the reading of a black number);

the frames of the canopy look green, not in agreement with the black camouflage band;

there is the small pipe for inert gas anti-fire fuel tanks system over the left side exhaust stacks.


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The aircraft bears a green/black camouflage; where not visible on the photo, it was drawn

on the base of a similar aircraft.

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Cutten 76updated on April 5, 2005 file name: cutten76.html


This profile is based on three photos, probably taken during summer or autumn 1941 on the Moscow front.A careful observation of the photos shows some characteristics:

it is an early type MiG-3, with slats; it has the radio mast; it wears what seems a white 0 (sometimes used for unit leaders) on the tail, and a red 76 with thin black outline on the rudder,

overposed to the red star;

it has a green/worn black base camouflage, with fresh black bands hand painted on the tail and rear fuselage; it has particularly large stars with a black outline under the wings; it has modified main undercarriage covers; probably they were cutten after a damaging or to have a better access to the brakes for

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A hypothetic recostruction of the camo scheme, based on the observation of the wing of the

second photo.

Fresh black repaintings look localized on the wingroots and on the junctions of outer wing

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Its characteristics look to be:

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Red 17Updated on April 5, 2005 file name: red17.html


This profile represents an example of an unknown unit, Moscow front, winter 1941/42.

It appears partially dismounted, and this creates some difficulty in drawing the camo scheme, that appears to have been partially fieldrepainted.Its characteristics look to be:

it is a late type aircrafte, with slats, starter tooth and radio devices (the wire looks visible near the stabilizer, even if the mast isdismounted);

the camo scheme looks to have partially repainted on the field, on the base of a standard green/black scheme: we see unusually soft andirregular undersurface demarcation line on the nose and sides;

there looks to be a roughly painted red 17 on the tail, parallel to the ground line; the tail star looks absent; it is armed with underwing rockets; it looks to have regular doors at the tail wheel.


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White 57 with ReindeersUpdated on April 5, 2005 file name: white57.html


This profile represents a MiG-3 of 2 GSAP/VVS-SF at Vayenga airport in 1942; only four MiGs of this unit survived at the beginning of

1942, and only one was lost during 1942, set on fire after landing because of combat damages. The remaining 3 MiGs were transferred to 255IAP/VVS-SF where they remained in hardly serviceable conditions until mid 1943, when they were transferred ot the VVS-TOF, the SovietPacific Fleet, putting an end to MiG-3 service in VVS-SF.Particularly noticeable are the Lapps with their reindeer helping the VVS ground crew. Sleighs were used on the unsnowed ground too. Theobjects on the canisters look like bombs, probably for bombers SB that were in the 72 SAP; this SAP got Pe-2 as well since July 1942.


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late type, with radio mast, without slats (as visible for the long pitot); camouflaged with AII green and black uppersurfaces, with light blue undersurfaces; the camouflage scheme of the wings is unusual, and is documented only on this

aircraft; the tail and the left side of the fuselage are not visible on photos;

there is a white number with two digits, probably a 57 (the first digit looks too wideto be a 1; it is surely not a 0, 2,6,8,9; if it should be a 3 or a 7, it should resemble

more to the second digit; it looks not a 4, that is usually open on the top); the number is unusually moved rearwards, so there is not space enough for a red star

with the usual position and size on the fuselage; so probably this was omitted;

if this unusual sceme is the result of a repainting, the demarcation line between lightblue and camouflage colors could be unusually low, to cover the hypothetical

original red star;

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the star) and the inert gas pipe on the exhaust stacks.


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Photos from Soviet Air Force Fighter Colours 1941-1945 of Erik Pilawskii

Another image, from a different source, looks to show the contours of some

camo bands on the rear fuselage.


late model, probably with slats; with radio and radio mast; with inert gas pipe on the left exhaust stacks; camouflaged green and dark green with light blue undersurfaces; yellow number 21, slightly overposed to the fuselage star outline; red stars on six positions, with large white outline;

Here is a camo scheme obtained from what is visible on the photos and from

other similar aircrafts.

spinner with aft cone painted white;


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probably black propeller blades.Back to MiG-3 Main Back to MiG-3 Colors


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white 28updated on April 10, 2005 file name: white28.html


These images show a line of MiG-3s and P-40s of 7

IAP VVS ChF (Black Sea Fleet) in Kuban, 1943.Many versions of this images exist, probably they

are from some movie.

We see five examples of MiG-3: from the left to the

right, white 27 (or 25?), white 28, yellow 21,

another covered one, and finally white 30.

White 28 was the subject of some profiles published

on other sources: it was interpreted as painted with

uniform green uppersurfaces by John Weal, while

n.21 was drawn as camouflaged with dark green

bands on the instructions of a decals sheet ofTravers.

First aircraft has obviously camouflaged wings,

while vague shadows with coherent shapes are

visible on the other aircrafts of the line, so I thinkthey are all almost identical.

Only the third aircraft differs in having a yellow

number (or, at least, darker than the white outline of

the star) and the inert gas pipe on the exhaust stacks.


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Photos from Soviet Air Force Fighter Colours 1941-1945 of Erik Pilawskii


late model, probably with slats; with radio and radio mast; with inert gas pipe on the left exhaust stacks; camouflaged green and dark green with light blue undersurfaces; yellow number 21, slightly overposed to the fuselage star outline; red stars on six positions, with large white outline; spinner with aft cone painted white; probably black propeller blades.

Here is a camo scheme obtained from what is visible on the photos and from other similar

aircrafts.



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blue 1Updated on August 16, 2005 file name: back1.html


This profile represents an aircraft of an unknown unit (perhaps 180 IAP) on the Moscow front, on the background of another onecharacterized by a slogan "smert nemetskim okkupantam!" (death to the German occupants!).

Its characteristic seem to be:

it is a late type aircraft, with slats; green/dark green camouflage and light blue undersurfaces, with unusually low color demarcation; black/white spinner; equipped with radio; the tail wheel is without the doors; a rough 1, painted with a medium color (possibly light blue or yellow), is visible on the stabilizer; it seems that the part of star on the stabilizer, and perhaps the red star on the rigt side of the fuselage, were partially hidden by dark

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thanks to C.F.Geust



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tail skiUpdated on December 20, 2005 file name: tailski.html


This profile represents an aircraft of unknown unit after a forced landing.


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The painting of the plane is uncertain, one can see

some traces of camo, apparently without any

number.

The most interesting characteristic of this plane isthe tail ski replacing the tail wheel.

Probably the main landing gear was equipped with

wheels, as usual.


it is a late type aircraft, probably with slats; it has the inert gas pipe on the left exhaust

stacks;

equipped with full radio equipment.

Images from Istrebitel MiG-3 of Medvedv, Kazanov, Maslov and Mikoyan's Piston-engined fighters 0f Gordon and Dexter



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white 1 of Black Sea FleetUpdated on December 10, 2005 file name: white1bis.html


This profile represents an aircraft of 62 IAP VVS ChF (Black Sea fleet).It is also visible from the left on a videotape.


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image from Aerokosmicheskoe obozreniye


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it is a late type aircraft, with slats; green/black camouflage and light blue undersurfaces; black repaintings on nose (perhaps on its lower surface too), spinner; some small

fresh black repaintings on fuselage; the wingroot fairing and the panel in front of the windshield are all green, and the

camouflage don't continues on them;

tail wheel doors of early type, with recess for the protruding wheel;

equipped with radio receiver only.


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outlined white 5updated on April 3, 2009 file name: white-5-outlined.htm


This profile represents an aircraft flown by a Soviet pilot, possibly in summer 1941


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Its characteristics seems to be:

early type MiG-3, probably without slats; the radio mast is absent, but the radio box

is visible behind the headrest, and the rear

wire aerial is instelled; a white 5, outlined in red, is visible; its

position, strongly moved back, let me

think that it's the only digit of the code;

standard green/black camouflage,possibly added on an overall green base

(the rear band is soft, while the engine

band has hard outline);

standard red stars on six positions(fuselage, tail, wing undersurfaces);

lack of sliding hood; all black-painted prop blades, very worn,

with well visible bare metal;

predominantly black painted interior (butwith a light-painted seat backrest)

Image from Kriylya 2/2008


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MiG-3 winter schemesupdated on July 10, 2007 file name: colors4.html

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During the snow period, many MiG-3 were painted white, both on the factory and on the field.The white cote had a different look depending by the mean of application (spray or brush), of the layer thickness, the wearing, the care etc.

On many examples, it appeared as a very light grey instead that pure white.It is not clear if white distemper or usual white paint was employed; however, the white layer was relatively uniform in winter 1941/42, welldifferent than those seen on LaGG-3s and La-5s in winter 1942/43, when the aircrafts were only partially and irregularly painted by whitedistemper.Besides, a lot of MiG-3s were fully repainted with summer schemes during the spring of 1942, and this let us know that the white layer wasn'ttoo easy to be removed.

The white paint could cover the upper and side surfaces only, or be extended to the lower surfaces too.In photos, on has to check the presence of a white-blue demarcation line on the fuselage, or the shade of wheel covers; the reflexion of snowon wing undersurfaces makes them seem always white, even if they were light blue.

The white paint extends often on propeller spinner and blades, and even on the exhaust stacks (that return quickly dark because of heat andsmoke).

While summer camouflaged MiG-3s wore usually numbers on the fuselage side, in front of the stars, white MiG-3s wore them on thestabilizer, or don't have them at all. Very few exceptions to this rule were seen.By the winter 1941/42, most MiG-3s had their tail wheel locked in extracted position, the doors removed and a tissue cover added to close thebay.RS-82 rockets were a standard equipment for the MiG-3s operating in the front of Moscow.Some rare photos show MiG-3s partially covered with white distemper; they could be of winter 1942, for analogy with similarly painted

LaGG-3s.Some photos on the Kharkov front show the white paint partially covered with temperate camo colors during spring 1942.

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