RAAF
Mirage IIIO No 75 Sqn RAAF Butterworth,
Malaysia
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RAAF’s
Mirages were based in RAAF Butterworth,
Malaysia
between 1967-1988 as part of the Australian’s government commitment to the
defense of the region, At the peak, 40 RAAF Mirage IIIOs from 2 squadrons were
present in Malaysia.
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This
kit was built OOB, some modification done include, I rescribed all
the panel line, the kit's instrument panel came in blank and Heller did not
provide any decal for the panel, so I added some dials with plastic cards and. I
also added detail on the ejection seat with Miliput.
I
choose to paint this kit with the 3 colors lizard scheme with temporary
yellow bands for aerial combat training. The colors used were from Gunze RAF
Color set, Ocean Grey, Dark Green and Off White, the camo was done free hand.
Decal
used from Microscale, the yellow triangle on the wings was taken from Microscale
decal but the yellow tail was painted. white serial taken from my spare since
Microscale do not provide them. The R530 Missile was taken from Hasegawa Mirage
F1 kit
Many
thanks to Amzari, Andrew and Gokart for their assistance in this build.
Thomas Ng
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