Italeri Mirage III E 1:48

Post by **Nige201980** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:01 pm

Here is my entry for this group build.

Quite an old kit with raised panel line and no detail in the cockpit but im hoping to sort all that out by rescribeing the panel lines and scratching some of the cockpit details if i can.

The box.

1st main sprue

2nd main sprue

And the bombs and what have you

A few bits that fell of the sprue

The clear parts

Decals

Instructions

The build ill be doing

And taking a leaf out of wappys book some bits and bobs to do the scratch building

I also did a review of this kit
[youtube]Xoh3agOumK8[/youtube]

I think this build is going to test me to my limits but im looking forward to it.

Post by **Paul** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:23 pm

Excellent nige, ill watch the review later tonight. Kit looks good those decals look amazing

Post by **Nige201980** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:27 pm

Paul wrote:Excellent nige, ill watch the review later tonight. Kit looks good those decals look amazing

the kits ok just old the decals are really good.

Post by **wappynutter** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:36 pm

Nice kit Nige, fantastic decals, cool paint scheme and you made my day mentioning me with the promise of some scratch building......

Good luck mate, I will be watching closely for hints and tips on aircraft building.

sat munchin as always, I'm fat as a pig now with all these excellent builds..

Post by **Nige201980** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 6:01 pm

Wappy ill try to photo everything I can.

Post by **wappynutter** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 6:24 pm

Nige201980 wrote:Wappy ill try to photo everything I can.

Thanks matey....
You'll do great, I know it, I have seen your work...

Post by **chief5437** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 6:38 pm

Cool mirage that Nige! The decals look like they'll add a nice bit of colour as well.

Good luck with it mate.

Post by **Tonygol** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 9:41 pm

Will be following this closely. Nice kit from the look of it.

Tony.

Post by **Lee** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 11:33 pm

Good luck with that Nige

Post by **Coen** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 12:58 am

Oooo a Mirage... Sweeet.
Old kit, raised panel lines, scratch building... this will be a cool build.
I'll be pegged to your build as always Nige!!

all comfy now.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bnealuk · Post by **T3hGuppy** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 2:47 am

This one should build up nice dude.

Post by **Nige201980** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:06 am

Some history from wiki

While the Mirage IIIC was being put into production, Dassault was also considering a multirole/strike variant of the aircraft, which eventually materialized as the Mirage IIIE. The first of three prototypes flew on 1 April 1961.
The Mirage IIIE differed from the IIIC interceptor most obviously in having a 30 cm (11.8 in) forward fuselage extension to increase the size of the avionics bay behind the cockpit. The stretch also helped increase fuel capacity, as the Mirage IIIC had marginal range and improvements were needed. The stretch was small and hard to notice, but the clue is that the bottom edge of the canopy on a Mirage IIIE ends directly above the top lip of the air intake, while on the IIIC it ends visibly back of the lip.[citation needed]
Many Mirage IIIE variants were also fitted with a Marconi continuous-wave Doppler navigation radar radome on the bottom of the fuselage, under the cockpit. However, while no IIICs had this feature, it was not universal on all variants of the IIIE. A similar inconsistent variation in Mirage fighter versions was the presence or absence of an HF antenna that was fitted as a forward extension to the vertical tailplane. On some Mirages, the leading edge of the tailplane was a straight line, while on those with the HF antenna the leading edge had a sloping extension forward. The extension appears to have been generally standard on production Mirage IIIAs and Mirage IIICs, but only appeared in some of the export versions of the Mirage IIIE.
The IIIE featured Thomson-CSF Cyrano II dual mode air / ground radar; a radar warning receiver (RWR) system with the antennas mounted in the vertical tailplane; and an Atar 09C engine, with a petal-style variable exhaust.[citation needed]
The first production Mirage IIIE was delivered to the AdA in January 1964, and a total of 192 were eventually delivered to that service.[citation needed]
Total production of the Mirage IIIE, including exports, was substantially larger than that of the Mirage IIIC, including exports, totaling 523 aircraft. In the mid-1960s one Mirage IIIE was fitted with the improved SNECMA Atar 09K-6 turbojet for trials, and given the confusing designation of Mirage IIIC2.

And some reference photos to whet your appetite.

The scheme im going for

The cockpit

The ejection seat

Inside the nozzle.

These are all the areas im going to try and do the scratch building on.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bnealuk · Post by **T3hGuppy** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:41 am

Cool shots dude.

This is going to look great with the extras you going to scratch build.

Post by **Nige201980** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:12 am

Just hope I can manage it mate.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bnealuk · Post by **T3hGuppy** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:38 am

I'm sure you can dude.

And pushing ourselves to new things is never a bad thing.

Post by **good2us1** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:50 am

This is going to a nice build!

Post by **Nige201980** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 12:17 pm

Cheers guys i hope i can live up to to it.

Right to of rescribeing the flat surface of the wings.

The top of the wing

The tools ill be using.

I'll start with the needle and the pin vice just to get it started.

Next one of my wifes needles again two or 3 passes this just widens the line a bit.

Then a quick sand down

And there we are just needs a wash to get rid of all the dust.

I'll do the rest in a bit as my eyes were getting tired so i will do the next top section have a rest then do the bottom the fuselage will be done when its together i think i'll have another look later and see which is the best way to tackle it.

My next job is the cockpit and seat look at all that detail wow its great NOT. this is going to be fun.

Until the next update.

Post by **Coen** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 12:27 pm

Oh WOW Nigel. That was a great bit of opener dude. Those shots were spectacular.

I loved that belly shot of that giant decal. Such a cool looking aircraft.
Can't wait to see what you do with her.

Post by **Nige201980** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 12:35 pm

Cheers Michael ill try my best lol

Post by **Paul** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 1:21 pm

Nice Nige, good luck with the rescribing, my most hated part of modeling

Post by **Nige201980** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 2:10 pm

Just a little more before i go back to the scribing.

The seat cushions done with mutiput.

And roughly where the wire will be going.

The bits in the tail pipe just drying at the moment.

Right back to the scribing yeah

Post by **bullgill67** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:23 pm

nice choice and great start - good luck Nige

michael

Post by **Nige201980** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:25 pm

Seat done just needs painting.

The belts are done with pie tin bottoms

And the hose was done by winding 28 gauge wire wrapped tightly round a small pin vice drill bit.

Hopefully ill have the instrument panels sorted tomorrow be experimenting most of the day.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bnealuk · Post by **T3hGuppy** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:32 pm

Great job on the additions the seatbelts look great will have to try that at some point.

Post by **Coen** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:38 pm

Awesome fix with the seat cushions Nigel.

Pie tin seat belts... remind me not to fly YOUR airline hahaha.

I'm curious about how you'll be handling the panel lines.

Post by **Nige201980** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:44 pm

Pie tins are stiffer than tin foil so easier to use and stay where you bend it.
Done one lower wing mate the rest ill do tomorrow I did put some photos up earlier on how I did them. Would have done them today but my eyes started to get tired and didn't want to mess them up.

Post by **chief5437** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 11:07 pm

Nice scratching Nige, very effective.

Post by **Paul** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 11:30 pm

Brilliant work nige

love the seatbelts and cushion

Post by **Coen** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 11:38 pm

Nige201980 wrote:Pie tins are stiffer than tin foil so easier to use and stay where you bend it.
Done one lower wing mate the rest ill do tomorrow I did put some photos up earlier on how I did them. Would have done them today but my eyes started to get tired and didn't want to mess them up.

I remember seeing them now buddy. It was two in the am when I saw them and my little fella wasn't feeling well. So I plum forgot. Sorry Dude. I went back and checked them out.
They were awesome. Exactly what I was looking for. Now I have both you and Paul's work to refer to. I love references.

Post by **Nige201980** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 8:01 am

Coen wrote:
Nige201980 wrote:Pie tins are stiffer than tin foil so easier to use and stay where you bend it.
Done one lower wing mate the rest ill do tomorrow I did put some photos up earlier on how I did them. Would have done them today but my eyes started to get tired and didn't want to mess them up.

I remember seeing them now buddy. It was two in the am when I saw them and my little fella wasn't feeling well. So I plum forgot. Sorry Dude. I went back and checked them out.
They were awesome. Exactly what I was looking for. Now I have both you and Paul's work to refer to. I love references.

No problem mate hope the little guy is ok.

Post by **Coen** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:31 am

Just a cold. A bit fevourish. He's also decided to cut some new teeth too. Great weekend at the Campbell's haha.

Post by **Nige201980** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:35 am

Coen wrote:Just a cold. A bit fevourish. He's also decided to cut some new teeth too. Great weekend at the Campbell's haha.

I remember those days mate i feel sorry for the little man.

Post by **Coen** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:06 am

No worried Nige, but thanks. He'll be fine. It's just a weekend of boogers and cranky kids.
Hopefully I'll get some work done this morning.

Post by **Paul** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:08 am

Hope the little guy is feeling better soon Michael

Post by **Coen** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:14 am

Thanks Paul

Post by **Nige201980** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 5:48 pm

Not that much done today but here is what i have done.

top and bottom of both wings re-scribed. I'll do the fuselage when its joined together.

the corregated metal sheets in the exhaust tube.

and trying to add some detail in the cockpit. i put the decal on of the instruments glued a bit of clear plastic sheet on top then cut out some foil from a yes you guessed it another pie tin trying to cut in the right places not that well i might add but for a 1st attempt it will do ill try it again if i need to. Also tried adding some raised detail on the sides with dots of PVA glue and going to build it up so represent some switches and what have you.

the seat has had a coat of primer and painted the cushions so should be able to do more with that in a bit.

Post by **Paul** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 6:35 pm

You did a great job on that scribing nige, well done mate.

Post by **chief5437** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 6:44 pm

Good idea for the nozzle Nige. Looks good.

Post by **Nige201980** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 6:45 pm

Cheers Paul i will proberly go over it again once it's all built.

Cheers chief just needs some more paint.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bnealuk · Post by **T3hGuppy** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 7:34 pm

Great work dude.

The detail on the nozzle is really nice. adds alot more depth to it.

Post by **Scruffy** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 7:41 pm

Nice work so far, really like the exhaust though, looks really good and matches the real deal very well!

Post by **Coen** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:36 am

Wow if you guys keep this up you'll all be done next week haha.
She's looking fantastic Nigel. I had a dinky (a toy) of this plane when I was a kid and I thought that it rocked.
It still does.
Great work so far buddy

Post by **Nige201980** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:41 am

Cheers guy hopefully ill get to do some more this week if im not to knackered that is.
My course starts today

and this smiley as more energy than me at the moment.

Post by **Coen** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:50 am

Good luck Nigel.
Take it easy... it's only work haha.

Post by **Nige201980** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:49 pm

Cheers Coen had a really good day its like being back in the army of a class of 16 only one civiy and he was a miner and the two instructors are ex army as well so felt right at home.

Post by **Coen** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:54 pm

Sounds like it'll be a bird course then haha.

I was worried that it would be more like the waiting room at the dentist.

Post by **Nige201980** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:57 pm

So was i mate as ive done most of the course in 2001 so most of it in there somewhere so its just a refresher because ive not done it since 2007 ish.

Post by **Nige201980** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 7:41 pm

Just a quick update not much done tonight.

Some of the bombs together

the cockpit with some paint on humbrol 78. had to add some small bits of sprune to make some controls.

the seat painted just needs a touch up as i slipped doing the black.

so not much done but ill do little bits over the next couple of days.

Post by **Nige201980** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:21 pm

Just a quick video of what I've done so far.

[youtube]5_ylmQgxwcw[/youtube]

Post by **Coen** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 11:35 pm

Thanks for that vid Nigel, it was helpful to me.
I wasn't going to spruce up the F86's cockpit.
I will now, I've added the seatbelts, and I'm looking to add a few bits and bobs.
You Da'Man!!!