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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Aircraft Modeling => Topic started by: Jicehem on October 03, 2015, 04:35:59 PM

Title: Dassault Mirage III A, Solido kit in 1/54 scale, 1959.
Post by: Jicehem on October 03, 2015, 04:35:59 PM

Hello,  :-salut :-salut

Here is my oldest surviving kit from the time I was a teenager. This is Solido's kit of the Dassault Mirage III, issued in 1959.
I restored it some years ago by painting it "aluminium" all around, because in that old times it was usual to stick decals on the "silver aluminium grey"-colored plastic. Wheels were the same than those of the 1/43 scale miniature cars of the same manufacturer with rubber tires...
The kit represents in realty the Mirage III N°05, the prototype for the series Mirage III C. Under the belly is to be seen the famous "red missile" of all fighter kits from Solido !
I built it in 1961-1962...  :-wise
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/100_5710.jpg)

(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/100_5711.jpg)

(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/100_5712.jpg)

(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/100_5713.jpg)

(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/100_5714.jpg)

(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/100_5715.jpg)

The pilot/cockpit is one part :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/100_5810.jpg)

(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/100_5811.jpg)

Jicehem :-wave

Title: Re: Dassault Mirage III A, Solido kit in 1/54 scale, 1959.
Post by: No.1 on October 03, 2015, 04:47:13 PM

Excellent! Shading of panels are far better then many do that today!

Title: Re: Dassault Mirage III A, Solido kit in 1/54 scale, 1959.
Post by: Jicehem on October 03, 2015, 04:59:39 PM

Quote from: No.1 on October 03, 2015, 04:47:13 PM

Excellent! Shading of panels are far better then many do that today!

Thank you.
Shading with Humbrol Metalcote "Polished aluminium" hand-painted and buffed with aluminium powder.

Jicehem :-wave

Title: Re: Dassault Mirage III A, Solido kit in 1/54 scale, 1959.
Post by: No.1 on October 03, 2015, 05:09:02 PM

:-ok

Title: Re: Dassault Mirage III A, Solido kit in 1/54 scale, 1959.
Post by: Second Air Force on October 03, 2015, 05:18:54 PM

Excellent!

Title: Re: Dassault Mirage III A, Solido kit in 1/54 scale, 1959.
Post by: draken35 on October 05, 2015, 03:41:26 PM

Interresting kit... :)