✈️ MiG-21 (Russia): step-by-step build

The pencil-thin Soviet jet with triangle wings and a nose that looks like a tube.

The MiG-21 is a small, very fast jet with triangle-shaped wings, built in huge numbers in the Soviet Union. This is a Technic-parts model inspired by it, not a real flying plane: silver beams make the long thin body, the wings get shorter towards the tips to make the triangle, and the wheels roll when you push it along.

  • Level 2 of 5 (easy)
  • About 35 minutes
  • 21 steps, 61 parts
  • Powered by: Push
  • Series: Aircraft from 21 Countries

What you will learn

Parts you need

  • 1 × Beam 15
  • 10 × Blue long pin
  • 23 × Black pin (grippy)
  • 1 × Beam 9
  • 5 × Beam 3
  • 3 × L-beam 3×5
  • 4 × L-beam 2×4
  • 1 × Beam 11
  • 1 × Boomerang beam 3×7
  • 4 × Beam 5
  • 2 × Beam 7
  • 1 × Axle 6
  • 3 × Train wheel
  • 1 × Axle 3
  • 1 × Bush

Steps

  1. Lay the floor of the fuselage: take a light grey 15-hole beam, then push 1 black pin and 1 blue long pin in and press a dark grey 9-hole beam onto them.
  2. Lay the floor of the fuselage: push 2 black pins in and press a dark grey 3-hole beam (the pointed nose) onto them.
  3. Lay the floor of the fuselage: push 1 black pin and 1 blue long pin in and press a light grey 3×5 L-beam (short leg down: the nose-wheel leg) onto them.
  4. Add the roots of the wings and tailplanes: push 1 black pin in and press a dark grey 2×4 L-beam (short leg up) onto them.
  5. Add the roots of the wings and tailplanes: push 1 black pin and 1 blue long pin in and press a dark grey 2×4 L-beam (short leg up) onto them.
  6. Add the roots of the wings and tailplanes: push 2 blue long pins in and press a dark grey 3×5 L-beam (short leg down: a landing-gear leg) onto them.
  7. Add the roots of the wings and tailplanes: push 2 blue long pins in and press a dark grey 3×5 L-beam (short leg down: a landing-gear leg) onto them.
  8. Add the roots of the wings and tailplanes: push 1 black pin in and press a dark grey 2×4 L-beam (short leg up) onto them.
  9. Add the roots of the wings and tailplanes: push 1 black pin and 1 blue long pin in and press a dark grey 2×4 L-beam (short leg up) onto them.
  10. Build the spine, the cockpit and the tail: push 2 black pins in and press a light grey 11-hole beam onto them.
  11. Build the spine, the cockpit and the tail: push 2 black pins in and press a light grey boomerang beam (its bent end leans back: the tail fin) onto them.
  12. Build the spine, the cockpit and the tail: push 2 black pins in and press a clear 5-hole beam (the bubble canopy) onto them.
  13. Build the spine, the cockpit and the tail: push 2 black pins in and press a red 5-hole beam leaning back along the fin onto them.
  14. Build the tailplanes: push 2 black pins in and press a light grey 3-hole beam onto them.
  15. Build the tailplanes: push 1 black pin in and press a light grey 3-hole beam onto them.
  16. Build the wings: slide a light grey 7-hole beam onto the blue pins that stick out, then slide a light grey 7-hole beam onto the blue pins that stick out.
  17. Build the wings: push 1 black pin and 1 blue long pin in and press a light grey 5-hole beam onto them.
  18. Build the wings: push 1 black pin and 1 blue long pin in and press a light grey 5-hole beam onto them.
  19. Build the wings: push 1 black pin in and press a red 3-hole beam onto them, then push 1 black pin in and press a red 3-hole beam onto them.
  20. Put on the wheels: push a 6-long axle through both legs and put a wheel on each end.
  21. Put on the wheels: push a 3-long axle through the leg, with a wheel on one side and a bush on the other.

Play time

Push the jet along the floor to taxi it, then swoop it round the room in your hand!

Real-world inspiration

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, the Soviet delta-wing jet fighter (tube nose intake, tailed delta wing, tall swept fin).

Credited demonstrations and component sources