Tag: Mirage
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Mirage 2000C – Part Two – The Gaps
Not a BBC series about a family in the marshes – this is a the business of dealing with Italeri kit fit…that doesn’t. I will be fair – the overall fit of the Italeri Mirage 2000C is superb – most of the panels abut each other perfectly. The only horrors are on the leading edge…
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Mirage 2000C – Part One – Birthday Present No. 1
First box off the new stash shelf. A wonderful sensation. The box art for the new Italeri 2000C fighter is all about the first Gulf War of 1990-91 – all browns and sand colours. The call-out on the back plus the decal sheet promise Armée de l’Air and UAE Air Force of the period. Possibly,…
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Mirage III CJ – Part Five – The Cavalry
That was the phrase used to describe the Mirage IIIC in a recent YouTube story about the Yom Kippur war. Apparently two Israeli F4 Phantoms were engaging a vastly greater number of MiGs that were trying to destroy a desert airfield. The Mirages were touted as the cavalry coming to save the Phantoms, but I…
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Mirage III CJ – Part Four – Who’s Hiding?
And from whom? Where are they lurking? Is it all just nonsense these days? I have no idea – I presume the various air forces have worked out how to hide in the air with grey paint and rubber knobs on every sharp point of an aircraft. The business of greying out national insignia to…
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Mirage III CJ – Part One – The Very Thing
I set myself the task of building Israeli aircraft for a desert museum airfield – this kit was sitting on the shelves of a specialist dealer when I went to look for decals. How could I resist? It shows a horrible modification of a beautiful aircraft on the box top…but the sides promise the original…
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Mirage F.1C – Part Four – I Must Build More
a. More French aircraft. b. More jet aircraft. c. More Hasegawa aircraft. d. More varied operators. The completion of the Moroccan Mirage F.1C has been a real pleasure – a kit that had few flaws to trap me. Of course I made mistakes but I made them early and easy. And this is the point…
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Mirage F.1C – Part Two –
I am not a naturally suspicious person. I do not see conspiracies in every coup, assassination, or Disney movie. I regularly send money to Nigerian princesses. Yet I suspect every tricycle-geared airplane that they build…they are all tail-sitters just waiting for us to have a moment’s lapse of attention. I regularly weigh and balance planes…
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Mirage F.1C – Part One – Stash Build
And it turned out to be part of someone else’s stash. These things come to you. There’ll be a bring and buy sale at a model exhibition or a swap meet at the local club. If you are told of it in time you can prepare yourself by rummaging in the wife’s purse or the…
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