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  1. My friend, one question: How are you going to do with the inscription "Le Grand Charles", absent in the decals? Cheers, Paulo.
  2. Thanks for the advice. Your photos will help me in doing a correct nose. Cheers, Paulo.
  3. Hi. Some updates. The tail caused to me some troubles. The left side of the tail have in the upper part the details represented in the kit, but the right side have only bumps. So I have to recriate the details with extra thin plastic, a lot of sanding and the riveting job. So, I assembled the wings, with some plastic strips in the internal side, to allows the airbrakes to be movable, avoiding them to get broke in the plane assembly process, who surely would happens if they was glued in the open position. Then I corrected some molding flaws in the Brakes parts. The Revell's kit not have nothing in the internal part of the airbrakes, who are an error. Then after gluing the wings I added a plastic part to represent the plate observed in this part. Lately I intend to add some tubes to get more accurate. Back to the tail. I made the tail antennas used by the ecuatorian KFIRs. Then I corrected the movable part of the tail, who are shorter than the original. This gave-me more troubles than expected. But its ready. All the tail was recribed nd all the rivets are drilled again, to appears equal to the ones that I needed to made. I also added some rivet lines only present in KFIR, and added too an acess door in the left side of the tail. this door was mounted farther away from the rudder surface, being raised. Then I created the navigation lights with red and white plastic inserted in the rudder and sanded down to shape. The rear light are half red , and half white. And as Revell create a enormous space to this light, I has to cut through the rudder and insert a plastic part to cover the hole. The sides was painted to get the correct shape and size. Here the rudder finished, except by the rwr sensors, still absent. I used some wash to see how was the rivet job. Here, the wings primered, to allows me to see the corrections in the seams. Some small parts: And the nose, primered: That's all for today. Thanks for your comments. Paulo.
  4. First considerations: The Revell's kit have a nice details, and in a dryfit looks good in the junctions of the parts, with a lot of engineering on this. All the joints have recessed shapes to allows a easy gluing and with a little chance to gaps and other gluing troubles. The only issue that I find is some mold flaws in the fuselage parts who will need to be sanded down and removed. this will require some work in re scribe some lines and rivets. Now, the first correction. The set's cone nose is shorter than needs to be, and the circunference of the part is lower than the kit's part. In this picture, posted by Renegade, in his wonderful Cheetah conversion shows this issue. In the picture we have in the middle the Isracast nose, and the CAM nose in the lower positon. Here,we can see the differences between them. I corrected this just adding a ring from the original kit's nse between the kit and the set's nose. This will correct either the size and the connection with the kit. I will to fill the seam line and re sribe some nose's panel lines, but will be corrected. This is the current appearance of the part, even without the primer. I I took the opportunity to correct the shape of the nose and to correct one of the side fins that was broken. I need to appologise with you by the poor quality of the pictures. As I have troubles with my Camera, The pictures are being made with my cell phone. As soon as the camera are repaired, the pictures will be inproved. Now, the Nozzle ring The set's ring are developed to the old kit, who have a round shape, quite different than the new kit, and no fits in all. Besides this, I found that the cut size its wrong. The part is shorted in lenght than will be necessary. To solve this, I used the kit part. First I cut the rear portion to shape the KFIR size, and them I'm rescribing the rivets.. There are a gap in the interior, who are not appears with the mirage nozzle, but it will be visible with the shorter KFIR nose. This need a correction. And the parachute cover is longer and shorter in diameter than the mirage one. I cuted and reshape the part. And some rivets redoed with my rivet tool. This is the tool: It consists in a 0,45mm CNC drll, reinforced by a brass tube glued wit CA glue and another plastic tube to add strenght to the drill. Only 0.5 mm of the drill tip appears, more than necessary to drill the rivet. With the brass tube attached all rivets are of equal depth. more to come. Paulo.
  5. Thanks, Friends. I will try not to disappoint you. Cheers, Paulo.
  6. Mark, firstly the set was developed to the old Revell's Mirage kit. Second, I believe that the set was developed to a child's use, because almost all the parts are wrong, with incorrect sizes and shapes. third, the parts are too simple, with a lack of details. and four, have a lot of errors in some parts. But is a good start to the project. The issues will be corrected with scratch and changes. Later, I will post some pictures showing these issues and the solutions. Thanks, Paulo.
  7. Alain,this will be the first issue. The set's nose is shorter a bit thhhhan the correct size and with a lower circunference than the kit',s nose. I intend to do a surgery in the cone adding a ring between the nose and the kit, to correct this. I hope that this will correct the two issues. Thanks, Paulo
  8. Hi, folks. I'm Starting a new project using the New tool Revell/Italeri Mirage IIIE. On these project I will use the Fisher Cockpit, the horrible CAM conversion set, and some more improvements, some in scratch. The object of this work will be an C2 KFIR in Ecuador markings. This is the desired object: Soon the updates. Cheers, Paulo.
  9. For personal reasons, I need to inform that Scale-pro Masks is being closed permanently. I'm having some troubles to send some masks ordered, and I decided that if I could not satisfy all the customers, is better to quit. My thanks to all the person that buyed from me, and my appologies to some friends that was not satisfied. All the orders yet maded will be sended. Any questions about the products could be made here, but I will not accept new orders. Thanks for all, Paulo.
  10. I have one 1/32 trumpeter MiG 3 in my stash. But I intend to made a "naked" plane, representing the state of plane when it getting out of the assembly line, still without any paint. This shows the metal parts and the wood parts. This kind of plane would be elegible for the GB? Thanks, Paulo.
  11. Hi, Kev. Unfortunately I could not fiish my F-5Es, at time. so I wis to request to you to move the topic to WIP foruns. Its poste here: Thanks, and My wishes of a Happy new year for all members!
  12. hello chuck I can smell another Masterpiece being born. So I'll take a seat in the 1st row and follow up from the beginning. I wish you a nice work! Cheers, Paulo.
  13. Congratulations, my friend! another masterpiece! I hope that soon I would conclude mines. But if I could do a half good as your is, it will be fabulous! Cheers, Paulo.
  14. I'm using Imgur for some years, without troubles. Try it. Paulo.
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