Graham T

Nice job!!

Wow! Tbh I've always wanted to build one of these properly (I did knock one together many years ago when I was a kid!) but have always been put off by the lack of cockpit/seat detail (I'm no scratchbuilder sadly). The kit has been around for a long time so it's surprising that no one has stepped up with some detail/improvemnt sets.

Wow that's fantastic!!!

This is a great kit but not the easiest to put together. Mind you, the Kinetic Mirages, one of which I'm building at the moment, are far from a walk in the park either!

Lovely job. I LOVE this model & you've done a great job plus added some interesting (& scary) information!

Can't find a 3 view that shows the spinners projecting beyond the nose on the B/FB Mossies, at least with the single stage Merlins.

Beautiful. Just got mine & will be very happy if it turns out like yours. Also happy memories of building the Hasegawa kit in those markings 30 odd years ago!!

Some do (the F-4E, EJ, F & G as I recall) but others - including the F-4C/D have raised lines but all nice kits with some work!

That looks like a beautiful kit & your build is terrific!

I build this a year or so & yes it goes together quite nicely but tbh apart from the recessed panel lines, I didn't find it a huge improvement over the old Hasegawa kits! The seats & cockpit are rather poor too.

Xtracolour from Hannants include "Desert Pink". https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/X032?result-token=My7Oy

Hmmmm I'm finding their Mirage IIIRD similarly challenging!

I drove past her many, many, many times. Poor thing but great that someone is taking care of her.

Thats Fantastic!!!!

Sorry, is is 2021 or 1981?

Blimey, must be 0ver 50 years since I built this! In those days it came in a box with frameable box art!!

I used the Flightpath cockpit & if I'm honest it is not a huge improvement over the kit parts. Bit of a waste of effort & not a brilliant fit either!

I don't do ships but that's a beauty!!

If I'D been the pilot, I'd have refused to fly that!

My youngest daughter (now 23) vividly recalls that when I played Don Henley's "Down at the Sunset Grill" in the car, he was singing "Down at the SAUSAGE grill"!

The Hunter really was a beautiful piece of aeronautical design.

The Gnat looks like 1/72 even in 1/48!

News to me but Anglia Aircraft Restorations are just waiting a few Centaurus parts before Tempest II MW763 G-TEMT takes to the air at Sywell. I had no idea that a Tempest existed ANYwhere let alone a flying example! https://www.facebook.com/SywellAviationMuseum/

I've used cotton buds in the past - no good for small detail work but fine for larger areas!

Not exactly "backdating" but I WAS going to use the gun bay from an Airfix F8 on my CA F4. I did some jiggling about (before cutting away the panel in the F4 fuselage side!) and decided that with a bit of surgery on the Airfix part it WOULD fit. However I decided that given the thickness of the CA plastic it probably wouldn't look good so abandoned the idea!