Hello.
Back again to try to make you feel building nice rare French aircrafts, as I
think I would have no added value to present you a F16 for example. This one is
one of my preferred 60's jets, the first Mach 1 class French fighter.
Well
on the above photo you can see it's a quite big aircraft, bigger than a Mirage
2000, surprising no?
This
is short run multi material kit. When you buy it, you know that you will have
more work to do than on a Tamigawa kit, this is the price to pay for something
unusual. Nothing difficult, just take your time and be relax.
Plastic
parts are not very clean and are to be polished (looks like an orange skin
effect if you see what I mean). Cockpit on the picture is 4.5 cm long, this
should give you a correct idea of the engraving.
Other
parts are:
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And
finally a transparent canopy which aspect is not perfect
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The
mounting notice is very clear
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As
usual I started by mounting the cockpit, adding wires where necessary. Note that
once the cockpit mounted, it looks very difficult for the engine to receive
fresh air. The only solution I have found was to paint in black the end part of
the air intake.
Seat
is grey, cockpit is dark grey (real colour is black).
Then
I continued in trying to make something clean and realist, so engine exhaust has
been drilled as it is in real life, thick tank winglet were replaced by plastic
card, and a lot of putty was used. Note that I suffered a problem with the
plastic which "delaminated", so I had to use putty again, polish,
re-delaminating phenomena, and so on....
My
"technic" for painting is the following one:
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Red and black zones hand painted with Humbrol colors
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Masking
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Tamiya X11 air brushed
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Then hand paint some panels with very diluted aluminium Humbrol paints.
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Finally use a paper pen in the engraving line (here applied on the right
wing only).
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Paint
scheme is the one of those in the box, I have not found a better one. So this
the n°148 from 1/12 Cambrésis in the early sisties . n°148 du 1/12 Cambrésis
dans les années 60hen I continued in trying to make something clean and
realist, so engine exhaust has been drilled as it is in real life, thick tank
winglet were replaced by plastic card.
Angus
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