This
is my conversion of a Mirage 3 with a resin set for an aircraft in the
South-African military.
The
plane here is a decoration for the 75 years of the SAAF, the aircraft with
painting cheetah named spotty.
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The
first thing, to be done on my plane was I bought the Heller Mirage3 b-c kit
and the spinners conversion
set on ebay for my Cheetah C spotty
The
box set spinners cheetah contains photo-etched, resin parts, decals SAAF two
parts clear. The
resins parts are well moulded.
I cut the the fillet on tail fin,
I removed the exhaust on last panel line and replacing
with a new.
Definitely
follow instructions of spinners for a good conversion of Mirage 3.
For
the painting I used the Humbrol 127 , 128
and white gloss Tamiya, for the rear drift it’s of Revell light blue
number 58.
The
patch 75 years to rear drift is painting
For
the head of the Cheetah on two sides of cockpit, I search how to make it and I finally bought four markers with painting (posca uni), red , white , black ,
brown ....... and here is the result
(
my friendly modellers do not come back !)
I
used
the posca markers for a good job, there was no reaction with the enamel paints and
no other problems.
How
I built the natural African diorama ( savane , savannah)
Because
my wild animal have the right to be in his natural environment and it is better for
him that classical grey
tarmac.
I
look my aircraft during of hours
My
next aircraft to built is the plane Mirage 3 to the ace Israeli giora epstein
A+
ALWAYS-IN-ASCENT
James Petit
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