Mirage 2000D -- Armée de l'Air
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April 5, 2024The cockpit tub is a little bit to small for the Reedoak French Air Force Pilot figure. So I had to make some space for his feet 🙂2
April 5, 2024The figure is awesome. I haven't seen so many details on a 1/48 scale figure before.3
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April 5, 2024Dry fitted the cockpit tub with figure into the the two fuselage halves.6
April 5, 2024Now he has some company! 😉7
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April 5, 2024I dry fitted the fuselage halves together with some masking tape to see if they fit snuggly into the wing section. Unfortunately that wasn't the case at all and I'll have to reinforce them with some sprue to keep the correct width for the wing section.9
April 5, 2024Same for the wings themselves. I placed some sprue under the wings, so they have the correct height to have an even connection between fuselage and the wings. I also reinforced the connection with the lower front section with some styrene.10
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April 11, 2024I handpainted the cockpit's control panels. Slightly drybrushed and holographic tape as operating screens. Glass surfaces (gauges) are replicated with Tamiya X-22. Next steps: seats and crew.12
April 24, 2024Both figures are painted and given a wash with oil colours.13
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April 24, 2024The WSO has a map of 3x2mm map of Brittany on his right leg. This is a DIY-decal I printed. On his left leg he has some notes I „wrote“ with a whiskers sponsored by the cat! ?16
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April 24, 2024Pilot and WSO in their new home18
April 24, 2024Do you see the Mirage? It’s a patch on the figures arm I only noticed with magnifying glasses on and after about 5hrs of painting. The details of the figures are stunning!19
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April 24, 2024In order to get the wing root flush with the wings, I‘ve spread the fuselage halves with some sprues. The halves tend to bow inwards, what I prevent with the sprues. The front one is 40,5mm and the stern one is 38,1mm.21
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April 27, 2024This part doesn’t fit at all. It should be flush with the rest of the fuselage. I sanded it down and will rescribe the details.24
April 27, 2024Although the sprues make the wing-fuselage-fit better, there are still „trenches“ between the parts. I filled the gaps with Mr. Surfacer 500.25
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April 27, 2024One side sanded flush.28
April 27, 2024Both sides done! Much better!!! But I have to rescribe some panel lines and rivets now.29
April 28, 2024I rescribed every single rivet on the upper surfaces. After all the sanding, a lot of them were gone.30
April 28, 2024In order to fit the Aires exhaust later, rough sanding was necessary.31
April 28, 2024Inside painted and glued together32
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May 6, 20244 hours of masking later!34
May 18, 2024Primed and painted on the inside.35
May 18, 2024The kit‘s HUDs is unusable, so I made some from a yoghurt container lit.36
May 26, 2024Finally some colour on the model. Mr. Surfacer 1500 black as primer37
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May 26, 2024This grey was a little bit too light for me, so I changed it to XF-66 Light Grey39
May 26, 2024THis was the first time for me working with AK Camouflage Elastic Putty. Tbh I'm not a fan. it shrinks after a short while and isn't sticky enough for my purposes. I'll stick with Blu Tack! But the AK stuff is great as an elastic filler.40
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May 26, 2024This was the first result. I wasn't happy with it.42
May 26, 2024I repainted the camouflage with Blu Tack as mask. Better!43
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May 26, 2024Radome painted.45
June 20, 2024Gloss clear on46
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