1950s Jet Age

One of the projects I was planning to send to Miscellaneous Miniatures to paint was a mid-1950s what-if scenario set over the Baltic Sea, featuring Soviets vs. Swedes and United States Marine aircraft (you can see that post HERE). However, with my increased confidence in my ability to paint 1/285 scale aircraft, I have decided to work on this project myself, and have changed the scenario setting a bit, swapping out the Soviets and bringing in East Germans in their place, while changing the location of the fight - I think the East German national insignia showing on natural metal MiGs would look distinctive, and really, how many of us game the East German air force?

A very simple scheme for this East German MiG-15bis

The project involves four of the Swedish designed and manufactured Saab J 29, known as the Tunnan, or Flying Barrel, facing off against four MiG-15s and a pair of MiG-17s. The scenario I have created, and created it is as the event is hypothetical, adds in a pair of U. S. Marine FJ-4s racing onto the board in to even the odds. 

The planes are all available from Flight Deck Decals, as are the decals I plan to use for both sides. Along with the national markings for the Swedes and East Germans (I have plenty of U. S. national insignia from a Dom's Decals sheet), Flight Deck also has Marine lettering and aircraft numbers. The one thing I potentially need are letter codes for the J 29s, but I am not going to fuss other that. Numbers for the MiGs will be from the World War Two Russian range - not a perfect font fit, but close enough.