Mirage 2000C 5-OP - Operation Daguet
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63 25 February, 13:40
DerMattes YazarNose sanded and first primer test. Fitted the air intakes and did some riveting after rescribing all panel lines. Will check some panels for correct lines and a rough idea where to put rivets.
Thanks for the interest / Danke für das Interesse 🙂
1 25 February, 17:15
DerMattes YazarMore filling and sanding, we will see after priming if the fuselage is smooth now.
14 March, 14:43
DerMattes YazarThank you Laurent and Nicolas for your interest and Laurent for the offer! 🙂
As always I am thinking about the colors. I will use Vallejo Model Air and tend to select 71.327 for the lighter shade and 71.143 for the darker. Both seem a little bit too light, but with thin coats over black primer and a dark brown oil wash, this should work i think.
The weapon loadout will be the one mentionen on dstorm.eu hope that makes sense?
14 March, 18:30
Laurent VILLANUEVA HELLER ForEveryes to DAGUET 1991 = good war armament is MAGIC II , MATRA 530 and ventral reservoir ! for air defens superiority ! on the 2000 under the engine fuselage at the rear, a central decoy box was fitted as a matter of urgency in place of the parachute housing and on both sides!
14 March, 19:25
DerMattes YazarThe files for 3d printing are from cults3d, the engine is linked in the project. The company sells this as STL files on cults or from their own shop as printed resin parts. The missiles are from cults as well, they were free files but the modeler seems to set a price to his models after some time. To be fair, a very reasonable price for the quality! Link: cults3d.com/en/users/Sufa312/3d-models
14 March, 20:33
DerMattes YazarThanks for your interest mates. Got the base colors down, next is detail painting and the nozzle.
30 March, 18:22
DerMattes YazarI am currently doing the decals. Nearly every little bit is wrongly numbered, I am using a picture of Italeri's promo build from the Spielzeugmesse as reference because most is not clear on actual photos of the Mirage. Stay away from this kit if fun is something you want when building a model.
1 4 April, 20:31
DerMattes YazarOil washed the underside, trying longer drying time this time. Hope the wash drys and stays in the panel lines.
1 8 April, 19:32
DerMattes YazarAntennas added, small parts painted and did some additional weathering at the exhaust and overall with the airbrush. I faded the colors a little in some spots and tried to add weathering like in some pictures of this particular aircraft.
1 12 April, 06:55
DerMattes YazarFinally reached the finish line 🙂 I had my ups and downs with this build, the kit itself is kind of weird. The big underside delta wing piece has nice, finely recessed details. Then there is the fuselage underside with fixed gear bay doors for the front gear. The upper side is more rough, the radar cone is famously wrong for a production aircraft because of the panel lines from the prototype. Where the wings meet the fuselage the fit is not good, with huge gaps on both sides. Just filling them leaves a flat area, so I filled and sanded it multiple times. The riveting I tried is barely visible at all, which is a good thing as I clearly need more practice with this. The pictures from the project banner where my references for the weathering and the panels where the unique desert camo paint is missing. I really like the 3d printed exhaust! The fit was simply perfect, including inside the fuselage. The designers surely knew what they were doing, as this addon was one of or the best fitting part on this kit 👍 😉
There are decals provided for the tank and the missiles, but only the placement of the tank and missiles is mentioned in the instructions, the decals for them not at all.
Overall, a challenging kit for me. Thank you all for the likes and the interest! 🙂
2 17 April, 16:15
DerMattes YazarThank you very much @Desert Merlin!
Danke euch, Christian und Neuling! 🙂
2 18 April, 09:50
