Mirage IV

[McColm]

Hi Guys,
I'm on holiday for two weeks and I've found 'neOmega Logo' a Russian resin company do a 1:48 cockpit. Code is C64 costing £17.
I'm waiting for the Spey exhaust pipes to be delivered, seems most places are sold out.

[Jeffry Fontaine]

I am looking for drawings and or images of the seldom seen stores pylons for the Mirage IV.  In particular, the stores pylons that are used on the wings for carrying the ECM and Chaff pods and the stores pylons that were mounted under the fuselage for carrying general purpose bombs.  I believe these particular stores pylons were mounted along the wing to fuselage join line and there were perhaps four or six all total.  So if anyone has been holding back on this information I would really appreciate your sharing the details with the rest of us.

[Sauragnmon]

Call me crazy, but am I the only one who could imagine seeing a Mirage IV with a Russian style nine-piece MER on that centerline and maybe a TER on the tank points, maybe a six-bomb MER?  The conventional loading on that picture is just so... anticlimactic from the carriage of that nuke.

[Sauragnmon]

Just wondering - anybody who has them or has pictures/links, what difference are there between the Mirage IVA and IVP?  Presumably the P lacks the indentation for the missile payload?  I'd love to see it, as I've got a concept clunking in my head on the "Eventually" pile.

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Some Mirage IV models and discussion topics that I have found on-line. 

From Hyperscale

1/48th scale Heller Mirage IV built by Andreas Greim


1/48th scale Heller Mirage IV built by Paul Coudeyrette



From Aircraft Resource Center

1/48th scale Heller Mirage IV discussion topic started by Aigore from Sweden contains images of 1kit contents and WIP.

1/48th scale Heller Mirage IV built by Colin Whitehouse
 

1/48th scale Heller Mirage IVP built by Eric Fauré


1/48th scale Heller Mirage IV built by Darius Aibara



From Modellversium.de

1/48th scale Heller Mirage IV built by Andreas Greim


1/48th scale Heller Mirage IV guilt by Andreas Slota


1/72nd scale Heller Mirage IV built by Maik Jacobsen



From guide.supereva.it/modellismo_statico Guide to static models  (Italian language page).  1/48th scale Heller Mirage IV P built by Enrico Bianchi browse at your own risk.  I could not get the images to load on this page. 

The ARC discussion contains several images of the kit contents, one of which answers the question on the differences between the Mirage IVA and Mirage IVP as it shows the contents of the later IVP boxing which contains all of the original IVA parts plus the additional sprue for the ASMP and pylon.

[Sauragnmon]

Thanks, Jeffry - that answers the questions with regards to 1/48, and if I can assume it's the same story in 1/72, then I'm cooking with gas.  IVP is supposed to have the flat body, answers the differential question, and makes it more understanding with regards to my options on how to load the plan.

[Jeffry Fontaine]

The Heller 1/72nd scale Mirage IVA is all you get, no upgrade to the IVP unless you make your own modifications with the blanking plate and sourcing the pylon and ASMP from another kit.

[Sauragnmon]

Could have sworn I'd seen a 1/72 IVP out there in box form when I searched the other day, but now that I know either way, I can just slice some styrene into the shape of that plate if I have to.  The ASMP is in this instance moot, as I have the bomber plan in my head instead of the missile platform - the thought of MERs hanging on that beast is caught in my head.

[Jschmus]

I know they're on here somewhere, but I couldn't run them down.  From Secret Projects, Sentinel Chicken's Mirage IVK thread, with profiles:

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,299.0.html

[McColm]

The exhausts pipes from the F-4E/EJ/N & S fit the Heller 1/48. Hasegawa do a weapons set range in 1/72 and 1/48 scale.

[rickshaw]

Not sure if this has been posted before.  I found it while looking for something completely different!



http://media.photobucket.com/image/f-111c%20fully%20loaded/OPEX-Afghanistan/MirageIVK.jpg

[Sauragnmon]

Mmmmmmmm Bomber Mirage Sexy....

[rickshaw]

I'm thinking about building a Mirage IV with Spey engines.  Does anybody know what the exact differences between the original and it were going to be?

[Thorvic]

Hi Brian

Email sent which should help out the project 

Cheers

Geoff

[PR19_Kit]

I'd forgotten this thread. What a cracking looking aeroplane the Mirage IV is, every schoolboy's idea of what a Mach 2 bomber should look like, especially from above the rear quarters. 

I must get on do my RW recce IVP......