Lightningboy2000 Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Italeri 1/72 Mirage 2000C with Syhart decals To be precise - French Air Force Mirage 2000C 103-LI 2010 Nato Tiger Meet EC 1/12 Cambresis. Had to use the relatively OK Italeri 1/72 kit but its nothing special so it was a slog to build as loads of things need cleaning up on the moulding. Sink marks filled, panel lines on the nose cone needed removing. Other panel lines on the upper wing rescribed, dropped the flaps, used a more accurate ejection seat from the Special Hobby F1 kit That Special Hobby kit is great as a donor for parts for other mirages, comes in handy. Also used a Master brass pitot, drilled out the gun ports & used Albion Alloys tubing to great the gun barrels. For paints I used a paints from a Hataka set & used a pre mixed orange that was color matched for a NTM 2000D that I had built previously. Apart from the Syhart decals that were donated from a member of the Mirage SIG I was also given the oversize supersonic tanks from a Heller Mirage 2000N, for some reason these Italeri 1/72 kits & the Revell 1/72 2000D kits don't supply the extra large area ruled fuel tanks which is annoying. Looking forward to seeing some new mouldings of the 2000's at some point! French Air Force Mirage 2000C 103-LI 2010 Nato Tiger Meet EC 1/12 Cambresis by Martin Laurance, on Flickr French Air Force Mirage 2000C 103-LI 2010 Nato Tiger Meet EC 1/12 Cambresis by Martin Laurance, on Flickr French Air Force Mirage 2000C 103-LI 2010 Nato Tiger Meet EC 1/12 Cambresis by Martin Laurance, on Flickr French Air Force Mirage 2000C 103-LI 2010 Nato Tiger Meet EC 1/12 Cambresis by Martin Laurance, on Flickr French Air Force Mirage 2000C 103-LI 2010 Nato Tiger Meet EC 1/12 Cambresis by Martin Laurance, on Flickr French Air Force Mirage 2000C 103-LI 2010 Nato Tiger Meet EC 1/12 Cambresis by Martin Laurance, on Flickr French Air Force Mirage 2000C 103-LI 2010 Nato Tiger Meet EC 1/12 Cambresis by Martin Laurance, on Flickr French Air Force Mirage 2000C 103-LI 2010 Nato Tiger Meet EC 1/12 Cambresis by Martin Laurance, on Flickr Thanks for looking! Martin 22 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Delta 210 Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Wow! All the work paid off! You've created a truly beautiful model. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 very nicely finished! I have the Eduard/Italeri 1/48th boxing of this model, and it was probably just as bad! But did it in this scheme as well with the wheels up. It's such an awesome scheme. I agree we are in desperate need of a good modern release of this aircraft! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Love it, that's awesome, what a great scheme! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomLover Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Wonderful, here is the airframe at Volkel (NL), 2010. I see no difference with your model 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 6 hours ago, PhantomLover said: Wonderful, here is the airframe at Volkel (NL), 2010. I see no difference with your model 👍 Excellent photo of it thanks! Cheers! Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 12 hours ago, trickyrich said: very nicely finished! I have the Eduard/Italeri 1/48th boxing of this model, and it was probably just as bad! But did it in this scheme as well with the wheels up. It's such an awesome scheme. I agree we are in desperate need of a good modern release of this aircraft! I'm sure Modelsvit or Special Hobby are doing a new one in 1/72. Has somebody like Kinetic done one in 1/48? Do need some updated kits of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vultures1 Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Wow! Superb work, great attention to detail and fantastic finish. Well done Sir! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattheCat Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 It's a Mirage, it's super nicely built, it's got an outstanding deco applied perfectly ...... I like it all! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Womby Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Fantastic looking scheme. Beautiful. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Wow, what an eye popping schem! Really nicely executed Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolphin38 Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Great looking Scheme, good work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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