Kinetic 1/48 Dassault Mirage V BR RECCE version

Started by Yann Bertholet · 42 · 2 years ago
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    John vd Biggelaar said 2 years, 5 months ago:

    Absolutely nice progress, Yann @yann

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    Yann Bertholet said 2 years, 5 months ago:

    For those who know me I always find funny way to hang my model in order to work on them, remember:
    On the vice with a cardboard of Coke:


    With cloth pegs:

    But since we are slowly approaching 25th Dec, I replace the star on the Xmas tree by this...

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    John vd Biggelaar said 2 years, 4 months ago:

    An amazing star it is, Yann @yann

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    Yann Bertholet said 2 years, 4 months ago:

    Latest progress: Upper and lower wing assembled, air intakes fixed to the fuselage and the 2 halves fuselage assembled. Everything went smoothly, I'm just worried when I will be assembling all those parts and the air intakes cover. That gave me some challenge last time with the BD.



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    Yann Bertholet said 2 years, 4 months ago:

    Many thanks for the comments Spiros @fiveten and John @johnb , that's keep the motivation up. By the way John, my wife does not have the same opinion about the star...

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 2 years, 4 months ago:

    This is really nice progress, my friend @yann!
    Yep, this is a nice (seasonal) Christmas hanger!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 2 years, 4 months ago:

    The delta looks great, Yann @yann.
    Better to see it on the workbench istead of in the tree I have to admit.
    On the bench you can at least make some progress.

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    Yann Bertholet said 2 years, 4 months ago:

    Thanks John @johnb and Spiros @fiveten, I didn't make a lot of progress, but succeed to assemble the wings and fuselage.


    The result was not what I excepted, I got a huge difference between the fuselage and wings, filling and sanding will be unavoidable in this area.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 2 years, 4 months ago:

    That is a huge step, Yann @yann
    Heavy sanding is definitely required.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 2 years, 4 months ago:

    Nice step, my friend @yann!
    yep, some filling and sanding is ahead of you...

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    Yann Bertholet said 2 years, 4 months ago:

    Fully agree with you guys @fiveten, @johnb. I started the filling and sanding of the wings. So far I'm happy with the result.

    Bottom side had the same with the keel and hook which is not yet there (to be make from scratch build)

    And today I started the nose. As usual µi didn't want to take any chance, so I glued 2 fishing leads to make sure he will stand on his 3 gears.

    Then again filling and later sanding are necessary.

    Thanks for passing by.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 2 years, 4 months ago:

    Lots of improvements, Yann @yann
    This is becoming a sort of putty monster.
    But it will improve the end results for sure.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 2 years, 4 months ago:

    That's some good amount of filling, my friend @yann!
    Looking forward to see this Putty Queen sanded!

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    Yann Bertholet said 2 years, 4 months ago:

    Hello mates, you are fully right on the 'putty monster' and the 'putty queen' @johnb, @fiveten but really it was needed. After using a lot, but a lot of sanding paper (400, 600, 1000, 3000 pad) Here is the result.

    In the mean time I succeed to assemble the plexi on the nose for the reco and the flaps.

    And eventually masking the canopy and assembling the 1700ltr tanks

    Thanks for passing by.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 2 years, 4 months ago:

    That's some serious and effective sanding, my friend @yann!
    And a great overall progress, too!