Italeri 1/48 Mirage F1 AZ (Saaf 1980's)

[Guest]

Dankjewel :-)

[Si Benson]

Lovely paint work:thumb2:
Si

[Guest]

These are not the best pix but you get the idea of the scheme
IMG_20180624_175354 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr
IMG_20180624_175320 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr
I will try humbrol glear gloss for the first time on this as soon as it is fully cleared.

Theuns

[Guest]

The pylons supplied in the kit for the outer stations is incorrect for a SAAF craft so I though of building new ones from styrine sheer. Then I saw that if I just cut the kit one on the red line I can get somthing that is quite close to what I see in pix.so this is what I will do.

IMG_20180629_071622 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Theuns

[Guest]

The humbrol clear seems to work well.
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[flyjoe180]

Looks great so far Theuns, the camouflage edging has come out nicely

[Guest]

Thanx, my decals are b the post, a few weeks more.

[Guest]

Since the SA post office had a strike in June my decals arrived here this week. Needless to say the parcle was open and I am sure they were very dissapointed to see no money inside ;-)
All great and well....such a pity that I ordered 1/48 and got 1/72 decals :-(

T

[Steve Jones]

Sorry to hear about you delivery issues. I thought the postal service in the UK was bad enough but it looks like most countries suffer at the hands of the mail service

[Guest]

Indeed, the hassle that we have here is that the unions are to powerfull for the Gov to do anything to diccipline them as they need their vote next year. We go through this every few years so it is nothing new.

Anyway, I will get more decals later and complete this model

Theuns

[Guest]

This model has been fighting mw all the way and I am now just beating it into submition so I can enjoy another build

The decals also were delayd in the post for months, when they got here they were the wrong size so I had to make another plan. Lucky that the SAAF at this stage of the bush war flew with almost no markings on the planes and those few that were on were heavly "ghosted"

IMG_20181109_151326 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr
IMG_20181109_151341 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Theuns

[Guest]

Looking very smart so far.
And an excellent choice of aircraft!!