Mirage G building...

[Brian da Basher]

Wow those look great, Archie! I think you've done some magnificent work on that VG wing! The addition of decals (or "deckles" as some call them) really brings these projects together.

Brian da Basher

[Archibald]

You say that it's impossible to find styrens sheets in France? Bloody hell, with Heller bankrupcy, this fact reveal the poor state of the models in France today...
Hope your hepatitis will be cured (poor english) soon...
For the cardboard, I use super Glue 3 from Loctite and it works well. Well I have to try this famous putty, it could help for some holes in some models
I have model remains everywhere after this difficult building (MiG-27 air intakes, cockpit, Mirage 2000 rear part, plenty of wheels, missiles, decals... !!!)
I think I'll try assembling this small parts into a new model...
cheers,
Archie

[Eddie M.]

Very good looking aircraft! B) I admire that you use what you have to work with and do a very good job. Thanks for sharing!
    Eddie

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

You say that it's impossible to find styrens sheets in France? Bloody hell, with Heller bankrupcy, this fact reveal the poor state of the models in France today...

Not in France, but in Lyon... But well, it's the second or third city in France, with more than a million inhabitants, and impossible to find a good hobby shop!!
Incredible!  

I asked for some styrene in a shop few months ago, and they even didn't know what styrene is!! I explained to them, and they answered that "those strange "styrene sheets" your talking about are only good for thoses guys in the movie special effects or for thoses crazy whiffers"...
Well, what can I add to that??

So yes, I agree with you, except some really good shops in Paris (I think about "Flight 66" for example) and maybe in other cities, the modelers' hobby is in a pity state.  


For the moment, I have no other choice than cannibalize some models in order to "whif" the others. My Mirage F1's horizontal tails were used to creat the F-117's canards, the Alpha Jet wings will be used on the rhomboïdal winged Mirage F1 etc etc...

There's also this Mirage-3000 (a Mirage 2000 with Tornado rear end ?)

Oh, I forgot: I just checked this with my model and now I could confirm that the better solution to do the Mirage 3000 is not to use theTornado rear end but... the Typhoon one!!
I explain: the Tornado rear part is very straight and big, very difficult to adapt on the Mirage 2000...
But the Typhoon end is largely more usefull!!
First, the Typhoon is a Delta winged plane and the position of its wings are quite the same than the Mirage's...
Second, the Typhoon rear fuselage has more curves than the Tornado's... And if you cut the Typhoon's and the Mirage's fuselages at the right place, you could have a new fuselage that respect the Area Rule... A good point, right?
Third and last, the Typhoon was initially powered with the Tornado engines... In the Revell box, there were the RB.199 exhaust, but you could use some exhaust from a Tornado box, of course...

Well, in my opinion, that's the best way to have a Mirage 3000... Better tan using a Tornado or a Rafale rear part...

And well, you really have to try the putty!! it could replace cardbroad for many uses (particulary in the fuselage jonctions) with a result far better! For me, it was a revoution...
I bought a Testors Putty tube for 4€ last year, I think its quite easy to find.

[Brian da Basher]

Here's a tip for finding sheet styrene: I'm told those "House for Sale", "Beware of Dog", etc. signs you see in home improvement stores are made of sheet styrene.

Brian da Basher

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

Oh, thank you for the info Brian!!

And it's probably cheaper than real sheet styrene (saw once in Paris a 10€ sheet... 10€ for a 8X12cm sheet, I find that too costly!!)

[John Howling Mouse]

and well, Mr JHM, I want to try the styrene sheet.

Please check your Inbox, Archibald.

 

[Archibald]

Here's a tip for finding sheet styrene: I'm told those "House for Sale", "Beware of Dog", etc. signs you see in home improvement stores are made of sheet styrene.

Brian da Basher

Lol! I just can imagine the evening news opening
"the police arrested a man yesterday in the street because of its strange behaviour. It seemed to the policemen that the guy was preparing house breaking. In fact it entered in the private gardens and properties, but stoled nothing. Intrigued, the policemen followed the men to its own house, arrested him and carefully scanned the place. In the basement they found no less than 853... signs. The man justified that by "those signs are perfect for making models, you know they are made of styren"  
 

[ysi_maniac]

You can buy Evergreen styrene by internet: www.greatmodels.comm, www.squadron.com, ...

[Archibald]

ah, le chant des Styrenes...  





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(Styren look likes Sirenes AkA mermaids. Mermaids song...)  



Gracias por el veinculo amigo  

[NARSES2]

Great stuff Archie - love the photo of your's under the real thing

[Archibald]

I've just discovered that a digital camera can replace a scanner - if you take the photo carefully-
Thanks, Narses and all!!!  

[devil505]

I like the concept.  Nice job!

[John Howling Mouse]

Here's a tip for finding sheet styrene: I'm told those "House for Sale", "Beware of Dog", etc. signs you see in home improvement stores are made of sheet styrene.

Brian da Basher

NON!  When building my giant hangar backdrop diorama a few years back, I found out that corrugated plastic is nearly always made out of polyethylene, not styrene.

You CAN get it in polystyrene but test it first.

All the stuff I built and painted with the stuff I had thought was styrene-based eventually fell apart by its own (light) weight!  While they can thermal-print signs on it very easily, you'll find paint and glue slips off it the way it does on a plastic food container lid.

Yikes!

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

Wow! That seems to be a very big scratchbuild!!