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  1. eclipse
    Nice model!! The printed S530s look great! But I would have remarks : - it seems one yellow antenna is missing in the middle of the FLG door, - under the outer wing stations, it should have Magic launcher rails and missiles, not MICAs... - Why have you choose blue strips around the missiles? This colour represents their training version, not "war ready" missiles.
  2. eclipse
    The Mirage 2000C s/n 59 should have an 'I' marking for RDI radar ('M' for Mirage 2000C with RDM radar). Indeed, 'RDY' has nothing to do in this boxing. Export versions have RDM radar, but there is no marking on their noses.
  3. eclipse
    On the contrary of what the mention 'RDY' present on the nose of this model let think, Mirage 2000C was actually equipped with RDM or RDI radar (RDI here, in the s/n 59 during Daguet) which has never been able to use Mica. RDY is the radar of dash 5 versions, which are indeed able to use Mica.
  4. eclipse
    And yet, F1CR never used flat aluminium... unlike Mirage F1B/C, as this image with Mirage F1B and CR taking off shows it: same light, same angle, but the underside colours in the red circles are different. By the way, underside colour of Mirage 2000N is NormDEF 2625 "gris bleu moyen clair" ref PPG Coating 5461-2182 similar to underside colour of Mirage 2000C/B or dash 5F.
  5. eclipse
    1625 is indeed the underside color of Mirage 2000N, which livery is very similar to the Mirage F1CR's one. I think it can match! Unfortunately, no...
  6. eclipse
    According to French Air Force documents, underside color of Mirage F1CR is not aluminium, but "gris-bleu clair", light blue grey. Aluminium grey is the underside color of Mirage F1C and B.
  7. eclipse
    I don't know. What I know is the seats are adjustable by the pilots according to their own height in order to have sight on the same level of the HUD. This setting is enabled by an electric engine only when the jet engine is running... and the latter is stopped before the crew goes out of the cockpit.
  8. eclipse
    Very nice work, the pictures with the background are very realistic! And the choice of this rare immatriculation, used only for six months is a very good one! 🤩 But I have just one question : maybe the position of the front seat seems too high, I'm not sure the canopy can be closed... 🤨
  9. eclipse
    Very nice! But... No loads? Yet it was fully loaded during the first days of operation Harmattan over Libya!
  10. eclipse
    yep RWR, chaffs/flares dispenser, location of the VHF antenna, by comparison with French version, location of the nav lights on the end of the wings, antenna underbelly in front of the keels, and if loads are envisaged, Sidewinder instead of Magic with the appropriate pylon... and no S530F. 😉
  11. eclipse
    No way!!!!! not a grey Mirage F1, or... maybe Mirage F1DJ!😉 Lagarto (?) scheme is better or one of the two BE painted in 1990-91 in French blue scheme, or... 😁 A French F1B overpainted with Spanish markings! Be careful, front place instrument panel of the grey Spanish two seaters are very particuliar, not modernized as single seaters, but neither the same configuration of other Mirage F1B... 😉
  12. eclipse
    It was exactly what I said! 😉😁 All the sheet needs in fact replacement... not only roundels! 😅
  13. eclipse
    WTF!!! 😱 What are these chubby storks? 😶 And where is the "E" of ARMEE D(E) L'AIR tail fin inscription? 😁 And where are the english RESCUE yellow arrows for all the export versions proposed in this sheet? 🤔
  14. eclipse
    Little comparison Every Mirage 2000's nose cones are identical in shape due to aerodynamic constraints. D and N versions are shorter cone than C, B and -5 but D and N fuselages are longer so, B, N and D have the exact same lenght without considering the pitot tube. So that C and N have same cone, -5 also but without pitot tube. D and N have same cone but D hasn't pitot tube.
  15. eclipse
    Sorry, I did it in French several weeks ago... 😅 https://www.master194.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1618263#p1618263
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