Revell 1/72 SE.535 Mistral
Hi everyone!
This is my Armee de l'Air Revell 1/72 SE.535 Mistral.
The SE.535 Mistral (aka Vampire FB.53) was a licensed upgraded Vampire built by French SNCASE, basically utilizing a more powerful Rolls Royce Nene engine and a Martin Baker ejection seat.
The Mistral emerged from the need to power up the somewhat underpowered Vampire.
The required modifications included a slightly wider fuselage and new air inlets, with their prosperous design eliminating the need of the top mounted paired scoops witnessed at British and Australian Nene-powered Vampires.
The first Mistral to see service was the SE.532 using the Nene 102 engine and a fixed seat, of which 97 entered service.
The Mistral operated with the Armee de l'Air from 1952 and was eventually phased out of service in 1961. All Mistrals were built in the SNCASE Marignane plant.
The Revell kit is a reboxed Heller mold with, a nice, sweet (if not at times challenging) build. It was built as a participant to our friend's Erik @airbum very successful de Havilland Aircraft Company 100 years GB.
Should you want to read the full build review, you may do so by visiting my beloved site Modelingmadness:
https://modelingmadness.com/review/korean/french/penmis.htm
Happy modeling!
Jasou Spiros @fiveten, this is a beautiful build of a beautiful plane! I like the smooth metallic finish a lot. That is hard to achieve!
Γεια σου φίλε μου Φέλιξ (hi my friend Felix) @fxrob!
Thanks a lot!
How nice Spiros. I love the scale and results you got with the Metallic finish.
Thanks my friend @bernardbedeur!
Extremely nice looking Mistral, Spiros @fiveten
It was a pleasure to follow your build thread.
Definitely going to read your MM article as well.
Thanks my friend @johnb!
Glad you supported my build!
Nice French Vampire. I wish I could get hold of one of the new 1/48 Airfix kits, but they don’t seem to have made their way to China yet, maybe I’ll have to wait for Halloween.
Thanks my friend @chinesegeorge!
Nice work, Spiros. Vampires are all the rage!
Thanks my friend @j-healy!
Nice looking NMF!
Thanks my friend @lis!
Cool!
Thanks my friend @gwskat!
Beautiful work, Spiros! The Vampire is an elegant design, as are all de Havillands.
Thanks my friend @vacrat and I totally agree with the elegance of the de Havilland designs!
nice little bloodsucker!
Gonna show it´s still British made relative in 1/48 soon 😉
Thanks my friend @grimreaper!
Looking forward to your quarter scale one!
A nice-looking Mistral. Well done!
Thanks my friend @gkittinger!
Nice work with the NMF Spiros, nice looking Mistral.
Thanks my friend @georgeswork!
Another nice one Spiros.
Thanks my friend @dtravis!