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Here is one small Mirage III, the O version used by the Royal Australian Air Force.
This is a reconnaissance version, with cameras under the nose cone (barely visible on the photos).
The model is in 72nd scale, made by HPM. A nice kit with [...]
Christmas break build here - an Eduard weekend edition (lol, took much longer than that!) Mirage IIIC kit with the very eye-catching early Armee de l'Air scheme.
Had some serious fit issues requiring a lot of filler, sanding and fuselage [...]
Greetings, gentlemen - and ladies if any present. I'm hoping that, just this once, you'll grant me a fair chunk of bandwidth. You see, I hit the big 80 this year, and next year it will be 40 years since I assumed command of No 3 [...]
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This is a Brazilian Air Force Mirage IIIE, in the air defense color scheme used back in the 90's. These machines were replaced by the Mirage 2000 which, in turn, will be replaced by swedish and locally built Grippens.
The kit is a [...]
I always loved the Mirage and related Kfir jets used by several air forces including the Israeli military. I had not built a 1/48 Delta wing in some time so when the new company AMK released this model it was time to build another. I had [...]
My second South African Air Force build was the Mirage III CZ by Hobby Boss. Not a bad kit!
The aircraft I modelled is no. 800, which is today the last airworthy Mirage IIIC and is operated by the SAAF Museum and stationed at Zwartkops [...]
Eduard 1/48 Mirage IIICJ with some manipulated kit decals. Really nice kit, just needs a few enhancements and careful building. Build WIP link included.
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I AM DONE...I got back from the Congo about 2 weeks ago, it took me three days to get back to normal before I could wander to the work table. I had fun with this kit,it took a lot of work to make up the two seat version of this iconic [...]
I managed to make the molds for the front(Cracked kit part) and rear main canopy, I used my trusty, home made Vac form machine, it worked like a charm. I then did all the canopy framing with lead strip and masked and painted. I am off to [...]
Hi Guys,
I haven't been posting anything for a while, work has been taking up a lot of my time.
I decided a while ago that I would like to build a Mirage III BZ from the South African Airforce, so here are a few pictures of the build so [...]