Mirage F1P

NARSES2 · April 20, 2020, 06:41:43 AM

I don't mind wheels as long as the hub rim is well delineated. Then I paint the hub and when dry initially run some very heavily thinned RLM 66 onto the tyre which tends to then flow around the hub. I paint the rest of the tyre once that dries.

PR19_Kit · April 20, 2020, 06:44:27 AM

Hm, that's a good idea, I'll try that on the Barracuda. I'm using some resin wheels on that so they should be well moulded.

What colour is RLM 66 please? I don't actually have any here, but I may have an equivalent.

NARSES2 · April 20, 2020, 06:54:19 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 20, 2020, 06:44:27 AM
Hm, that's a good idea, I'll try that on the Barracuda. I'm using some resin wheels on that so they should be well moulded.

What colour is RLM 66 please? I don't actually have any here, but I may have an equivalent.

Sorry Kit, RLM 66 is just a very dark grey the Luftwaffe used for cockpit interiors late on once they switched from 02 the greeny/grey colour. Any dark grey will do, as long as it's grey and not got a hint of blue in as a lot of them have. Especially some of the British ones.

PR19_Kit · April 20, 2020, 08:24:46 AM

OK thanks. I've got some Tamiya ones like that I think.

I'm still getting used to those HUGE pots.

Gondor · April 20, 2020, 09:10:40 AM

Humbrol 92 which I converted from the old Authentic Colour HG 6

or

X201

or

GS H70

That enough?

https://www.ipmsstockholm.se/home/urbans-color-reference-charts-part-i/urbans-colour-reference-charts-germany/

Gondor

PR19_Kit · April 20, 2020, 09:15:31 AM

Looks good Alastair, thanks.

PR19_Kit · April 23, 2020, 03:15:37 AM

A teaser progress pic of the F1P.

Most of the wheels are on, one nosewheel needs its attachment hole re-drilling, but no gear doors yet. All the doors, and stores are painted but the doors have to go on first as the big wing tanks prevent access to attach the doors.

Only the left side is fully decalled so far though.

Dizzyfugu · April 23, 2020, 03:18:11 AM

Uh, pretty! The different, non-radar nose really changes the usual look of the F.1!

Tophe · April 23, 2020, 03:44:07 AM

Oh, what a marvel!

Gondor · April 23, 2020, 03:52:56 AM

The nose section looks a little Alpha Jet to me. Looks dam good so far though.

Gondor

PR19_Kit · April 23, 2020, 04:25:11 AM

It's entirely Etendard IVP actually, I used the entire photo nose from a IVM conversion.

When are manufacturers going to wise up about landing gear axles? It's no good making them scale size, they're made of STYRENE for crying out loud! Are you listening Revell, and others?

I've just had two of the axles on one side pf the F1P snap clean off, they're less than 1 mm dia. so they've got no chance standing up to putting the model down a few times during the build, they just fatigue. It doesn't matter if they're over scale thickness, you can't see the axles anyway, they're INSIDE the wheel hub!

PR19_Kit · April 23, 2020, 05:24:31 AM

And a bit more research on the real subject wouldn't come amiss either Mr. Special Hobby!

The instructions tell you where to put the main and nose gear doors, some of them anyway, but omit the other main doors totally. But I figured out where they went from the shape of them and superglued them in place. Styrene cement won't work due to all the paint in the way.

THEN I find out that the Mirage F1 has most of its doors closed, even when it's on the ground! The large nose gear door and the two smaller main gear doors are always shut unless the gear is cycling, darn it.

So my F1P is modelled in 'maintenance mode' while the matelots set the oleo pressures and damping settings, ok?

Old Wombat · April 23, 2020, 08:11:39 AM

Maybe the Marine Nationale ones don't have the wheels-down gear doors closing programming? (backstory covers, et alia)

Looks really good, Kit!

PR19_Kit · April 23, 2020, 09:06:02 AM

Since I posted that I've found a few pics showing the main nose gear door open, and one showing them ALL open.

But of course you never know what the situation was when the pics were taken.

All the doors, stores and decals are on now, so construction is done. Just some varnishing and a bit of paint touch-up to do and that's it.

Pics this evening probably.

Gondor · April 23, 2020, 09:10:48 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 23, 2020, 05:24:31 AM

And a bit more research on the real subject wouldn't come amiss either Mr. Special Hobby!

The same could be said about the builder assuming that the manufacturer got it right, then again if you want to whiff something it doesn't have to be right.

The number of times I watch people build an Airfix TSR2 with all the undercarriage doors open.....

Gondor