Mirage 5BA - Heller

1
November 7, 2014
Using some templates the panel lines were done.
2
November 7, 2014
The same for the rivets
3
November 7, 2014
The vallejo wash is used here in order to show the lines I have just done.
4
November 7, 2014
Here after the wash is easy to see the lines and rivets.
5
November 7, 2014
To install the resin parts I had to erase the original wheel whells details.
6
November 7, 2014
I sarted using a X-acto blade
7
November 7, 2014
And to find a better fit I used a flex pad.
8
November 7, 2014
Resin parts were glued using CA glue.
9
November 7, 2014
In order to close the wings I had to sand the delimited area in black.
10
November 7, 2014
Much better than the original parts I think.
11
November 7, 2014
Again I had to erase original details and sand a lot to have place to insert the resin parts.
12
November 7, 2014
Using a blade is faster.....
13
November 7, 2014
14
November 7, 2014
To have place to insert the resin I had again to remove some zones of the fuselage.
15
November 7, 2014
16
November 7, 2014
17
November 7, 2014
18
November 7, 2014
19
November 7, 2014
20
November 7, 2014
21
November 7, 2014
22
November 7, 2014
23
November 7, 2014
24
November 7, 2014
25
November 7, 2014
26
November 7, 2014
27
November 7, 2014
28
November 7, 2014
29
November 7, 2014
30
November 7, 2014
31
November 7, 2014
32
November 7, 2014
This color os primer was used in order to have a light coat as a base before to paint the model. Also, that's the real color prime for some parts of the Dassault aircrafts.
33
November 7, 2014
For exemple, to paint the white on the air intakes, a light base is better than a dark one.
34
November 7, 2014
Engraved panel lines were done after the primer coat.
35
November 7, 2014
The same for the rivets. Its easyer to see them on a primer coat than on the plastic without any coat.
36
November 7, 2014
37
November 7, 2014
38
November 7, 2014
39
November 8, 2014
Engraved pane lines almost done
40
November 8, 2014
Rivets almost done too
41
November 8, 2014
Prier coat fixed (humbrol H74)
42
November 10, 2014
Maskol application before the black coat
43
November 10, 2014
Rubber black tamiya applied
44
November 11, 2014
Weathering starts on the cockpit
45
November 11, 2014
Weathering starts on the cockpit
46
November 11, 2014
Redo engraved panel lines on the undersurfaces
47
November 12, 2014
Engraved panel lines almost ready on the belly.
48
November 12, 2014
Some pigments MUD were apllied in the cockpit.
49
November 12, 2014
With these dark pigments you can have something adapted to the 72nd scale.
50
November 12, 2014
Note that the initial effects with aluminium and white are now adapted to the scale.
51
November 12, 2014
Some white color was applied.
52
November 14, 2014
Some more access panels were done
53
November 14, 2014
The position light were drilled
54
November 14, 2014
The right aileron was glued once again
55
November 14, 2014
I will use the PJ external fuel tanks.
56
November 20, 2014
I will apply some decals to represent the instruments
57
November 20, 2014
Here they are applied.
58
November 20, 2014
59
November 20, 2014
Wind shield is protected
60
November 20, 2014
HUD is ready
61
December 8, 2014
The air scoops were done one by one.
62
December 8, 2014
And placed using CA glue.
63
December 8, 2014
Structutures were added too on the belly
64
December 8, 2014
And small holes were done to receive after painting very small spheres (lights ?)
65
December 11, 2014
Light grey was applied.
66
December 11, 2014
White applied on the air intakes
67
December 11, 2014
White applied on the tail antennas
68
December 18, 2014
Here the ModelWorld colors I will use.
69
December 18, 2014
First test, I think the color is too dark.
70
December 18, 2014
First color applied. Now I need to mask it and start to paint the llight green.
71
December 21, 2014
I have just applied the light green.
72
December 21, 2014
73
December 31, 2014
Masking to paint the dark green.
74
December 31, 2014
Applying a wash on the belly.
75
December 31, 2014
Also a wash on the upper surfaces.
76
December 31, 2014
Adding extra details on the main wheel wells.
77
December 31, 2014
Improving the resin wheels using plastic rods.
78
January 6, 2015
I added a new actuator arm in the left wheel well.
79
January 6, 2015
Adding some cables in the wheel wells
80
January 6, 2015
81
January 6, 2015
82
January 7, 2015
I have replaced the aluminium stripes because they were not in scale (see previous picture to check). I did better ones and here they are in place.
83
January 8, 2015
The wheel wells are painted using Tamiya Flat Aluminium
84
January 8, 2015
Wash done but still need to paint small details and apply pigments and new wash
85
January 19, 2015
Front landing gear ready to be painted
86
January 19, 2015
87
January 19, 2015
Decals were applied on the under surfaces
88
January 27, 2015
Some more decals were placed.
89
January 27, 2015
90
February 6, 2015
Front landing gear dry-fit
91
February 6, 2015
Landing gear parts ready to be painted
92
February 6, 2015
All decals were applied and setted using DACO STRONG
93
February 6, 2015
94
February 6, 2015
95
February 6, 2015
Resin exhaust part from AML
96
February 6, 2015
97
May 8, 2015
98
May 8, 2015
99
May 8, 2015
100
May 8, 2015
101
May 8, 2015
102
January 8, 2016
103
January 8, 2016
104
January 8, 2016
105
January 8, 2016
106
January 8, 2016

Comments

1 7 November 2014, 11:08

Günther Debiscop
A Belgian one? I'll follow this build then 🙂

7 November 2014, 11:08

Es-haq Khosravi
Great! I'm in!

7 November 2014, 11:21

Bart Goesaert
damn, this looks promising... very nice work on the detailling. From which company is the cockpit?

7 November 2014, 11:50

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Hi guys thanks for your messages. The cockpit is from PAVLA. Be careful using this cockpit because you cannot find a good fit on the front wheel bay if you adjust correctly the cockpit side and vice-versa. That's the reason I have separeted the original part to find a good fit in both sides. Cheers, Pierre.

7 November 2014, 12:11

Łukasz Gliński
Very nice build, hard to believe the old Heller can look like that
I like the springs the most 🙂

7 November 2014, 12:11

Koen Rollé
Nice one.

7 November 2014, 19:20

Nikolajs Negeriss
Interesting project. Will follow!
BTW It would be cool if you add comments (for explanations of what and why you do) to the pics when you add those to the album.
E.g. I didn't get why you put Vallejo wash on the wing before painting. Is it just to test the wash itself? 🙂
And why did you paint it yellow? 🙂
Thanks,
Nik

11 November 2014, 10:05

Pascal GARAT
Stunning!
One of the best job I've ever seen on a 1/72 Mirage. 👍 👍

11 November 2014, 10:31

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Thanks guys, I have just added some comments to some pictures.

11 November 2014, 14:09

Es-haq Khosravi
Great!

11 November 2014, 15:04

Pierre-Christian Baudru
HI guys, help me please ! My projet has disappeared from my list projet. How can I recovery my projet please ? Thanks a lot.

12 November 2014, 08:42

Nikolajs Negeriss
Thanks for comments! Regarding missing project. I guess it is because kit is not assigned to the project. Please double check "Project inventory" and assign kit if it is not there

12 November 2014, 09:35

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Thanks, but when I go to Albums, I can find the project and read this : This album is attached to project MIRAGE 5BA. But when I go to the project list it is not there. For the kit itself, if I do add to a project, the project Mirage 5BA is not on the list of existing projetcs.....

12 November 2014, 11:51

Stefan Rosiers
Stunning work . Curious to see it done .

12 November 2014, 13:46

Philip De Keyser
Looks great so far, looking forward to the next pictures 👍

12 November 2014, 16:10

scalemates
Project restored

13 November 2014, 20:11

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Thanks a lot !

13 November 2014, 20:13

Bill Spargo
Fantastic work, the rivet and panel lines are excellent very well done.

14 November 2014, 22:18

Bart Goesaert
a pleasure to follow this one...

11 December 2014, 13:23

Hanno Kleinecke
Marvellous work on the surfaceses and details! I learn a lot here ! Thanks for showing!

18 December 2014, 18:46

Es-haq Khosravi
Great job Chris! I really love scratch building! The rest is awesome aswell!

19 December 2014, 00:49

soheil moghisi
Really nice and perfect.

22 December 2014, 13:48

Günther Debiscop
Pierre-Christian, It's already looking good 👍. As a side-note I can tell you and every-one else that some (many) of the Belgian Mirages were painted in the wrong order. Meaning that they firstly applied the darkest colors and then the lighters colors. When these planes started to have fainted paints, the lighter colors were showing the darker ones beneath them.

22 December 2014, 19:42

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Thanks for the info Gunther ! Do you have pics of the BA24 maybe ? Cheers.

31 December 2014, 07:33

Philip De Keyser
Ths is gonne be a wonderful mirage and nowing from what a kit this is making. Thumbs up pierre 👍

31 December 2014, 09:59

Es-haq Khosravi
Great job!!!

31 December 2014, 11:42

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Thanks guys ! Happy new year !

6 January 2015, 16:00

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Thanks Guido ! I will check the link. Cheers.

6 January 2015, 16:01

Bill Spargo
Pierre, your work is very inspirational, love watching this model progress.

6 January 2015, 20:21

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Thanks a lot guys. I have just masked the model under surfaces in order to paint the wheel wells with Alclad. Pics soon. Cheers.

7 January 2015, 08:34

Jose Miguel Rodriguez
Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7 January 2015, 13:35

Burkhard D
What a joy to watch this! Excellent work. 👍👍👍

19 January 2015, 10:40

Erik Leijdens
Really impressive! 👍

19 January 2015, 11:48

Koen Rollé
The amount of detail is incredible... I can only dream of that much skill.

19 January 2015, 15:37

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Thanks a lot guys !

27 January 2015, 14:00

Roland Sachsenhofer
Wow, very well done- clean build and spot on!

27 January 2015, 15:54

Jens Valkeneers
Nice model!

27 January 2015, 15:57

Guus
My favourite Mirage !

6 February 2015, 18:07

Günther Debiscop
Fine looking Belgian bird 👍

8 May 2015, 10:00

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Thanks !

8 May 2015, 10:16

Bart Goesaert
very nice build, and fantastic result... Hope to get mine as beautifull as this one...

8 May 2015, 14:10

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Thanks Bart

9 May 2015, 06:33

Paulo Castro
So! This is how you do it. Nice to see you here.

9 May 2015, 11:47

Ekki
Excellent stuff.

9 May 2015, 17:37

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Thanks a lot guys !

9 May 2015, 19:28

Aris Grey
Thas was a serious job, congrats for your patience converting this old kit into a modern standards model! Well done!

9 August 2015, 15:16

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Thanks Aris ! Cheers.

10 August 2015, 06:51

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Thanks Guido.....I need to build another one.....this time a wraparound camo....

14 August 2015, 20:24

Soeren R.
Awesome work!

14 August 2015, 20:25

Philip Avonds
Wow, impressive build! You turned that old kit into something spectacular. Incredible attention to detail, congrats!

1 May 2020, 05:16

Sergej I
Great details! Thanks for posting the whole process 👍

1 May 2020, 06:26

Bernd Korte
Always good to see an old kit turned into a state-of-the-art gem!

1 May 2020, 06:50

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Thanks a lot guys !

2 May 2020, 06:50

Album info

This is my first Mirage build. I will improve this old kit using some resin parts, PE parts and also home made parts. I will do a Belgian Mirage 5BA, before the adding of the ECM antennas, it means, wearing an old camo scheme with light grey on the undersurfaces.

Mirage 5BA

106 images

1:72

Completed

All albums

View all albums »