Mirage 4000

[nev]

My first resin kit!!

Lesson number one - don't use slow setting superglue to glue slightly warped fuselage parts together! I spent half an hour last night holding them together!

Lesson number two - don't photograph cream pieces of resing on a beige table! Excellent camo!    

[nev]

I've just place the main components together here to give you a size of this beastie - for a single seat fighter she's BIG!

[Ollie]

Looking good, but how can you afford such a kit?

   

[NARSES2]

My first resin kit!!

Lesson number one - don't use slow setting superglue to glue slightly warped fuselage parts together! I spent half an hour last night holding them together!

Either that or get some accelerator Nev

I use the medium strength glue - gives me some time to fiddle

What's the quality of the kit like - up to Arnold's usual standard ?

Chris

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

Mirage 4000        


Do you have an idea of the country, the camo or the weapons she will have??    

[nev]

Looking good, but how can you afford such a kit?

 

It was "only" £32...

I can afford one, its affording the second that will be the problem  

What's the quality of the kit like - up to Arnold's usual standard ?

Dunno.  Like I said, my first resin kit.  I do know the seat and instrument panel are exact copies of said items in the Italeri Mirage 2000 kit - looks like Lee isn't the only one who drops bits of other peoples models in resin  

Do you have an idea of the country, the camo or the weapons she will have??

Yep, I know exactly what the country, camo and weapons loadout will be  

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

Yep, I know exactly what the country, camo and weapons loadout will be

Tell me more, pleaaaaaaase!!!  



For the weapons, it's obvious that you have a lot of choice!!  

[nev]

Country - antipodean

Camo - classic

Weapons - French




Hey, I can't give it all away now, eh?    

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

That's clearly enough!!... for the moment!!

And I am already sure I'll love it!  

[nev]

BTW PD7, whats the translation of that Charlemagne quote?  My French stops at "je mapelle Neil, jai douze ans" (apologies for poor spelling and grammar, I learnt that 22 years ago   )

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

Charlemagne: "Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky"

I'm not sure of the translation, but this sentence is said by Sean Conery in "Indiana Jones, Last Cruisade"...


Oh! By the way, I don't know if it interests you, but I have some documents about the different configuration a Mirage 4000 and Super Mirage 4000 could carry...
Ask me if you want it

[nev]

PD7, did you get my PM?

I would post in-progress pictures showing main construction complete and 3 rounds of filling and sanding and priming, but I can only get on the internet at work and am not allowed to upload pictures from here.

Got 3 days off now, should be able to get really stuck in, maybe even solve my PC problems    

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

Yep, I just read your PM.

I could post here part of my answer: a link to a web site with good pictures and information (in French, but the caracteristics of the plane are easily comprehensible).

http://aircraftstories.free.fr/mono/4000/m.../mirage4000.htm

This site is very interesting and there are a lot of pictures with the underfuselage pylons... I think it could interrest other people.

I'm writting a board with a more complete sumary of what a Mirage 4000 could carry and where. I will PM this tomorrow or the day after I think...

Good night

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

Hello!!

Nev actually have some Internet problems...

So, he send me the pictures and I post them for him





HQ pics here and here.


Oh! I just notice the fly-refueling system!! Does it come from a Mirage 2000?  

[Ollie]

Nice work!

Anglo-French cooperation, eh?