1/48 Academy Mirage IIIc

Gallery Article by Zenden Ng on Dec 29 2009

 

Mirage IIIc Israel Air Force

This is my first 1/48 scale. I bought it because I was attracted by the cheap of $7USD and the heritage of this famous French aircraft in the Israel/Arab war.  Where the Israeli pilots demonstrated their superb flying skill using this high speed but slow turning Mirage IIIc to defeat the Arab airforce.

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Fit is good and mininium filing and filling are needed.  I used Tamiya acrylic chrome silver to hand paint this model.  Decals on this set is poor and I weather it using black poster color to bring out a sharp detail.  The time I spend weathering it out the detail is even longer than entire assembly and painting process.  The whole project took 7days.

Despite being cheap with simple detail, I will still rank this model as great kit value for money.  For  7 USD for 1/48 scale and such level, is great.

Zenden Ng

Photos and text © by Zenden Ng