Lord Riot Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 A change from all the RAF stuff, following a trip to Taiwan I'm going to make a Mirage and an F-16 in their colours. The Mirage came with Taiwanese roundels, and I've got some Bestfong F-16 decals with enough numbers to use some on the Mirage too. The colours translated to Humbrol 127 and 144, though the latter seems a bit dark compared to photos of the real jet, so I might use a different medium grey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 great subject! but take care, these planes are Mirage 2000-5DIs, not classical french Ds! different radom and spine, apart from being only air to air capabale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vultures1 Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 20 hours ago, exdraken said: but take care, these planes are Mirage 2000-5DIs, not classical french Ds! different radom and spine, apart from being only air to air capabale And the Italeri kit isn't a classical French D either ... as it doesn't have the changed spine! Not sure about the radome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Don't worry, AFAIK none of any existing plastic model supplies the right Antilope V nose cone for French N/D versions... It's not a shape (every nose cone whatever the Mirage 2000 version has the same shape !) but paneling issue because nobody seems to know about the added frame in front of the classical frame 1 of the Mirage 2000 cell... The Mirage 2000-5Di is like a B version (I'm talking about missions...) : a training two-seater, not a mud mover ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 3 hours ago, eclipse said: Don't worry, AFAIK none of any existing plastic model supplies the right Antilope V nose cone for French N/D versions... It's not a shape (every nose cone whatever the Mirage 2000 version has the same shape !) but paneling issue because nobody seems to know about the added frame in front of the classical frame 1 of the Mirage 2000 cell... The Mirage 2000-5Di is like a B version (I'm talking about missions...) : a training two-seater, not a mud mover ! yeah... but it is about different colors for the longer radome! a short radome Mirage 2000-5(DI) would look strange after all! regarding the rest, in 1/48, the Heller 2000N has a short (Antilope) radar, whereas the Airfix 2000B (same basic mould) has the longer fighter radar cone. Kinetic did not get it right in their more recent release though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Riot Posted December 21, 2017 Author Share Posted December 21, 2017 The camo pattern suggested for the Taiwanese colours were completely different to photos of real Taiwanese Mirages. This is the pattern copied from photos. It's a nice kit though, goes together well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Riot Posted December 22, 2017 Author Share Posted December 22, 2017 Almost ready for the decals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulT 876 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Hi I think they did not have Pitot tubes on there a/c all the photos I have seen do not show any. Hope this helps. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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