Phantom2 Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 (edited) Hi all! I´ll jump in with this..... I know it can be a tough ride, but I just love this Aircraft! Stefan Edited August 14, 2020 by Phantom2 blackbetty, BradG, Mark M and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted April 12, 2020 Author Share Posted April 12, 2020 (edited) Hi All! This aircraft is, and have always been among my top-10, no, top-5 and it has been a favorite as long as I can remember. I usually think of It as the J-35 Draken´s twin sister, both are built for the same job, and they are both born when the Cold War was very hot! The similarities with Draken are many, it´s a high altitude interceptor and like the Draken and E.E. Lightning, it suffers from a very short range. I was lucky and could buy a rather beaten up box from a friend and got it for a very fair price. The box have done it´s job and protected the contents very well and I never save any boxes, it have done it´s job now! OK, so what do we get it the enormous box (very big even for a 32nd scale kit….)? In the box are several big grey sprues and a smaller clear one, in one end of the box is a big white box. On the box is a small etched fret, no nothing under there, about 20cm (or 10”) is pure air! A thick instruktion book in the now so usual CAD-style,with clear instructions, stencil placement and all Eight(!) possible options. You also get two enormous, colorful and well-printed decal sheets printed by Cartograf. Do you remember the comic strip by Gozinny/D´Underzo.”Les Chevalier du ciel”, (”Jaktfalkarna” in Swedish). These five books are some of my most prized belongings, even today! My dream have always been to build Lt, Michele Tangy´s Mirage IIIC with those red markings on a natural metal aircraft, of course with the classic stork on the fin. When Italeri released their big Mirage my dream was back and when I found out that Berna decals had issued exactly those decals, I just knew I had to have this kit! Yes, I bought the decals before I even had the kit! Sorry for the lousy pic…. The aircraft you can build from the comics; I´m not sure which aircraft Tangy flew in, but probably they had to use any aircraft. The one I will do; The kit; Not much plastic here, but the parts are nice and well moulded, I´m exited to get building The etched fret, but no Instrument Panel! But the decals, Oh LaLa…. Two really BIG sheets, perfectly printed by Cartograf, one with the individual options… …and a second sheet for the stencils, both aircraft, rails, pylons and weapons… But the blue on the French roundels are too dark(?), here you can see the difference, Berna´s decals on the blue paper… Some other small issues I have with the kit decals are the South African option, the springbook are supposed to be gold, not orange, and the Israeli stars looks a bit too light to me. But take a look at the flowers on the fin flash above the SA markings, the flowers are printed in gold! Some other things I have, a pitot tube from Master, Wheels from Eduard Brassin and a seat from Isracast (I suppose they used the same seat). Stefan Edited April 12, 2020 by Phantom2 mozart, Alain Gadbois, rafju and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikka Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 (edited) i will gladly follow ! i have all the books of the series and i love it ! PS : he flew a lot of planes with different codes , in the book 8 he flew EA , in the 9 he flew EJ and EC (EC crashed IIRC), Book 13 EF , Book 15 EL . i have to look at it later but i think its that Edited April 12, 2020 by kikka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Wonderful Stefan, this should be a very entertaining build! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheetah11 Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Hi Stefan I will follow this closely as the TV series "Les Chevalier du ciel" was my favorite in 1975 and started a life long love for the Mirage. It was a dubbed series for us called 'Mirage'. Unfortunately the knowledge of this series gives our age away. Enjoy the build Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted April 12, 2020 Author Share Posted April 12, 2020 3 hours ago, kikka said: i will gladly follow ! i have all the books of the series and i love it ! PS : he flew a lot of planes with different codes , in the book 8 he flew EA , in the 9 he flew EJ and EC (EC crashed IIRC), Book 13 EF , Book 15 EL . i have to look at it later but i think its that Hi KIkka! I never found any more books in the series, seems there´s a few more! How many books do you have? Cheeers! Stefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted April 12, 2020 Author Share Posted April 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Cheetah11 said: Unfortunately the knowledge of this series gives our age away. It sure does, Nick! Stefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikka Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 2 minutes ago, Phantom2 said: Hi KIkka! I never found any more books in the series, seems there´s a few more! How many books do you have? Cheeers! Stefan around 30 books i think ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheetah11 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Hi Stefan BTW did you see the 2005 movie featuring the Mirage 2000. Incredible flying scenes. Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alain11 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 30 minutes ago, Cheetah11 said: Hi Stefan BTW did you see the 2005 movie featuring the Mirage 2000. Incredible flying scenes. Nick yes indeed , but poor scenario Alain Daniel Leduc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 5 hours ago, Cheetah11 said: Hi Stefan BTW did you see the 2005 movie featuring the Mirage 2000. Incredible flying scenes. Nick No, but I sure want to see it! Stefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted May 2, 2020 Author Share Posted May 2, 2020 (edited) As usual, I glue everything that´s possible before having to paint. ”Mini-builds” as the cockpit, bang-seat (which I will not use) wheels, landing gears, wheel wells, weapons, and all those small subassemblies in a kit. The seat in the kit is… OK, but I always prefer a resin seat with molded seatbelts. The only M.B. Mk.4 I could find was a seat from Isra-Cast, but did Israel use the same seat as France? Anyway, Isracast´s seat is miles ahead of the original…. The wheels did i find in Eduard´s Brassin range, as usual very nice and just enough weighted. The wheel wells are nicely detailed… The seat and wheel hubs painted with Alclad Black Microfiller Primer (ABMP)…. The detail in the wheel wells really pops out under the ABMP…. ....and in the nose wheel well…. …and the cockpit… The detail are OK, but it could have been better…. More to come... Cheers, Stefan Edited May 2, 2020 by Phantom2 mozart, blackbetty, MikeC and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Leduc Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 On 4/12/2020 at 3:27 PM, Cheetah11 said: Hi Stefan I will follow this closely as the TV series "Les Chevalier du ciel" was my favorite in 1975 Nick Oh my my.... Tanguay et Laverdure.... , and for the record, I was very young... lol.. Dan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted August 3, 2020 Author Share Posted August 3, 2020 (edited) Lucky you... The TV-show never aired in Sweden, I only have those pressious few albums... I was quite young too.... The wheels are primed with Alclad Black Microfiller (ABM)… Rear bulkhead too…. …and the instrument panel… Nose wheel bay painted with Alclad Aluminium, now the detail really pops… Main and nose wheels painted with Alclad Aluminium, nice detail…. The big landing light (?) under the nose was just a clear disc over an empty void, that will not do in this scale! A surplus spinner from a 1/48th scale Eduard Albatross that i found in my spares box, fits nicely after a little sanding. I glued some household aluminium foil with CA and polished it carefully with a Q-tip. Much better, but I got a little frosting on the inside, but much better then before. More to come soon…. Stefan Edited August 3, 2020 by Phantom2 Marcel111, Kagemusha, Landrotten Highlander and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 (edited) Intakes assembled…. The wheel bays painted Alclad Aluminium and glued to the bottom fuselage part. The intakes painted Alclad Aluminium…. The rear section of the engine painted Alclad steel…. Front part of the engine painted Alclad Aluminium and the rear part Steel…. All parts were treated with a rich wash made of white spirit and artistic oil paint (lamp black) and then everything was glued together… More to come soon…. Stefan Edited August 9, 2020 by Phantom2 MikeC, Lothar, Landrotten Highlander and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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