Israeli Mirages: colour of wheelwells and landing-gear doors

[Doc72]

Hi everybody,

I am at the moment more or less finishing the Mirage IIICJ from Modelsvit (1:72). Following the kit's instructions I painted the wheelwells, the interior of the landing-gear doors and the landing-gear legs aluminium. I guess that is basically correct for French jets of this era. However, now I have seconds thoughts. Is this correct for a camouflaged Israeli Mirage? More specifically, I am building a post-1973 aircraft with the large black/yellow triangles on wings and tail.

Photos of IDF Neshers from the same time frame seem to show landing-gear doors painted in a white colour. On Youtube I found a walkaround  of a Mirage IIICJ in the Israeli Air Force Museum where these parts also look white or even light blue like the underside of the aircraft (so much dirt and dust that it is hard to tell).

So what do you think? Are Modelsvit's instructions wrong or not?

Thanks in advance!

Ole

[dov]

Oh,oh, the camo was standard in and after 73. Kerp in mind, the a/c hat just training value after the war. The Kfir and Nesher were there. These Kfirs started to become grey! 

The aircraft in the museum in Hatzerim are nice, but often in a poor condition due to lack of money and harsh climate. 

Many paintings there are compositions from parts of several different a/c too! 

Photos in color of this time are seldom. The cencorship was 100% operating too!

The Mirage was outdated at this time.

Therefore we did our model in the early 67 years, where it was publicly photographed for propaganda issues.

Happy modelling