Gary West Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 (edited) Thats the Mirage IV............... Aside from our beloved Air arms, Ive long had a deep seated affection for French Military aviation, and whilst that interest is more than represented in my stash, its never come through to my builds............time to change that and build one of my all time favourites, Dassaults Mirage IV. By todays standards, the kit is pretty basic, raised panel lines being the biggest down side. I'll be adding Neomegas cockpit, weapons from my FAF Jaguar A and would realy love to model a recce version, but as no one makes the CT52 pod in this scale, she will carry the ASMP missile under the fuselage. The starting point wasn't to good...................... both front fuselage sections are badly warped, but when its secured, it sems to look ok! A complete re-scribe, luckily mostly straight panel lines Edited April 30, 2015 by Gary West 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary West Posted August 15, 2014 Author Share Posted August 15, 2014 Got the cockpit painted this evening and will try and have it assmebled and fitted by tonight.... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dads203 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Very nice painting Gary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filler Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Excellent 'off the beaten track' choice. What's the overall length of the model? It's quite a hefty delta isn't it? I shall keep an eye on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary West Posted August 15, 2014 Author Share Posted August 15, 2014 (edited) What's the overall length of the model? It's quite a hefty delta isn't it? I shall keep an eye on this one. The kit is 48cm in length and 24cm in width - I'll struggle to fit her into the display case lets put it that way Edited August 15, 2014 by Gary West Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary West Posted August 16, 2014 Author Share Posted August 16, 2014 I suddenly realised (after having read the instruction sheet ) that the nose wheel bay needs to be fitted at the same time as the cockpit......it was just a empty rectangle. Made a nice early start today and Ive added some cabling - Im sure this looks nothing like the real thing but its better than empty! Gave it a quick blow over with Flat Alumnium will add a wash later and pick out some colour in there somewhere - not my comfort zone this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary West Posted August 16, 2014 Author Share Posted August 16, 2014 Typically Mirage control surfaces are "off centre" so I've removed them and started to make good the mssile shaped hole in the centre of the fuselage The Mirage IV sits quite high from the ground and not being heavily laden with weapons underneath, I want to open up the main u/c doors so there's a bit more going on.......... So out with the drill............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troffa Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Nice work Gary, I've got a 72nd scale one of these to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troffa Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Are the French Armee De L'air camouflage colours the same as the RAF dark green and grey scheme? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avgas Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Nice start. I got halfway through a rescribe and put it back in it's box a few years back. I'll be watching how you get on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary West Posted August 16, 2014 Author Share Posted August 16, 2014 Are the French Armee De L'air camouflage colours the same as the RAF dark green and grey scheme? The instructions call out for Matt Sea Gray & Matt Army Green - Im going RAF Green, Grey which were pretty Nato standard across the Dutch, Italians, French etc. We have some wheel wells and they've had a quick blow over in flat aluminium - will get some additional detail in there later If I'm lucky, I'l be able to save the doors after some cleaning up.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 very nice start, or progress already! SMDS once had some (quite expensive) resin updates in case you look for more detail! http://www.smds.ws/proddetail.php?prod=SMDS48030 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Nice start! Mirage IVs are seriously cool so I shall certainly be following this thread. Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary West Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 I think I got away with saving the wheel bay doors, adding a little detail inside based on a couple of images......... will give them a wash and add some stencil data later......... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles87 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Nice start from me too, I don't think I've ever seen more than a handful of those built. I didn't know that there was a Neomega cockpit available, perhaps I'll look for mine, although I'm not sure it came to France with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary West Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 With impendiong holidays, trying to keep this flowing Thinking ahead to over come any fit issues later on......... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Nice start on this ! I've built the same kit years ago and the fit was... interesting ! Still, the finished model is well worth the work, it's a very elegant aircraft. Speaking of paints, they are not exactly the same as the RAF ones, but in scale it would be hard to tell the difference. I'd use a bluer grey than DSG though. The green too is a bit different, greyer than RAF dark grey. Again, with the usual pre/post-shading, washes and so on, it would be hard to tell the difference.. Just don't use RAF colours for the Italian or Dutch aircrafts ! Both used their own colours on most cold war subjects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 very nice! I would recommend you the AML exhaust nozzles if you can invest a little more: http://eshop.aml.cz/lang-en/pur-set-1-48/750-purexhaustnozzletailpartsheller.html best wishes, Werner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary West Posted April 23, 2015 Author Share Posted April 23, 2015 Holy topic ressurection! Just finished a couple of jets for the French Fancy GB and still very much in a French mood, so I decided to get this one finished. Pulled it out at the weekend and hated the previous re-scribing so I basically filled all those lines in, and re-scribed once again, hopefully this time using much more refined! Almost at the paint stage finally......... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBC Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Very nice, Gary. I've got a bunch of aftermarket for mine, so I'll be watching this. Too bad that CT52 isn't currently available. I figured L'Arsensal would make it as they do the BOZ 103 chaff dispenser and BARAX ECM pod. I see that you are using the latter in your build. Still, there is a bunch of aftermarket available to help the kit out. Cheers, Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilfish Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Nice to see another one being built. I rescribed mine, scratch built the cockpit, oh and of course, fitted Speys and stretched the forward section a scale 2 feet, to make the Mirage IVS, that was offered to the RAF after the TSR2 cancellation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary West Posted April 23, 2015 Author Share Posted April 23, 2015 Very nice, Gary. I've got a bunch of aftermarket for mine, so I'll be watching this. Too bad that CT52 isn't currently available. I figured L'Arsensal would make it as they do the BOZ 103 chaff dispenser and BARAX ECM pod. I see that you are using the latter in your build. Still, there is a bunch of aftermarket available to help the kit out. Cheers, Tom Yes Tom agree re the CT52, seems they dont scale up! The Boz need to be cut about because the FAF model is somewhat different from the Tornado force, but its a good starting point and yes had a Barax floating around doing nothing thankfully :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rom1 Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 great work! my turn to agree for the CT52 pod.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary West Posted April 23, 2015 Author Share Posted April 23, 2015 (edited) Thanks Rom.... Because of the kits origins and age, its a little sparse in many places, so just a little couple of bits to lift the large fuel tanks around the weld seams...... Will stand out niceley when pre-shaded too Edited April 23, 2015 by Gary West 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary West Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 A quick visit to the local hobby store and managed to pick up the paints - gave it a quick pre shade too...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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