Italeri 1/48 Mirage F1

While I'm waiting for my other WIPs to dry from some paint, I started working on the Italeri Mirage F1 CT/CR converted to ED.
Started work on the NeOmega resin cockpit:






This is the cockpit dry-fitted in it's place:




I also opened up a panel to the front undercarriage:


And this is the aircraft with the major parts dry-fitted:


Next up will be gluing the cockpit in place, then scratch building the tail detail which is different on the ED than on the CT/CR

Comments welcome

Great start mate ... hope you are decided by now for the colour

haha!!
Not yet decided on the colours!!

looking good, well done! hope you solved the issue whether it is dk brown or dk grey

im jealous.. i want a mirage f1. esp with all these mirages f1s in malta lately

Ray wrote:Good start Duncan

Looking forward to see this in MALTESE colours

skyhigh wrote:

Ray wrote:Good start Duncan

Looking forward to see this in MALTESE colours

I can do it like this... it will be easier for me as I would not have to convert it to ED, but leave it as it is!

So the question is: Maltese, or Libyan??

please im sick and tired of hearing all these silly (not funny) jokes of the mirages being now 'maltese airforce property'. facebook, times of malta, maltapark.. the joke has gotten a bit stale now. no offence ssm brothers

Adrian is right but if you have to paint it in Maltese colours as a sort of 'what if'plane then you need to use the new AFM colour scheme of grey upper surfaces over white undersides.

nah... I'll just go Libyan.

Does anyone have the specs / drawings of the tail of the ED so I can compare it to what I have and build it. Also, should I build it entirely out of milliput? This is the first time I'm trying to scratc hbuild something....

a guy from britmodeller is doing one, look at his tail:
http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=67204&hl=mirage

AdriaN wrote:please im sick and tired of hearing all these silly (not funny) jokes of the mirages being now 'maltese airforce property'. facebook, times of malta, maltapark.. the joke has gotten a bit stale now. no offence ssm brothers

calm down Mr have a break!!!!

I know what you are saying, but we have a lot of pseudo experts in evrey field and many of the comments are truely pathetic. For starters, the mirages that landed in malta were armed with exocets - they need an opthalmologist , munitions dispenser is empty, they fired one of the magic AAM, they should have landed on the french carrier and so on!!!
The french mirages that landed here were recon configured, the only weapon carried was a single self defence magic AAM which is being replaced in service by the MICA, no offensive weapons seen on the pylons, just a pair of fuel tanks and ECM pods.

p.s. - please somebody tell me that they have seen a pair of exocet missile armed mirages land most probab;y it was a 'mirage'

bcauchi wrote:Adrian is right but if you have to paint it in Maltese colours as a sort of 'what if'plane then you need to use the new AFM colour scheme of grey upper surfaces over white undersides.

If there is something that I hate is the 'what if schemes' - better do science fiction subjects

I agree Duncan go for the Libyan scheme

U jien mhux biex nitnejjek naqra huti fl-SSM u biex inkompli mat-tnejjijka mistoqsija ta' Duncan u ghalfejn tahsbu li staqsa dik il-mistoqsija mhux biex jinbex u jien inkun pront u nwiegbu hekk u mhux biex inqabbdu x-xrar fost l-argumenti taghna

Ma tarax li ha naqbel xi darba ma scheme immaginarja

Sorry for our non Maltese members and/or whoever does not have a good command of our NATIVE LANGUAGE, that was & will stay in Maltese

clioguy wrote:nah... I'll just go Libyan.

Does anyone have the specs / drawings of the tail of the ED so I can compare it to what I have and build it. Also, should I build it entirely out of milliput? This is the first time I'm trying to scratc hbuild something....

Duncan this may help a little... and the tail drawing, I don't realy now which version but it's close...

skyhigh wrote:

clioguy wrote:nah... I'll just go Libyan.

Does anyone have the specs / drawings of the tail of the ED so I can compare it to what I have and build it. Also, should I build it entirely out of milliput? This is the first time I'm trying to scratc hbuild something....

Duncan this may help a little... and the tail drawing, I don't realy now which version but it's close...

Thank you Marco!!

You might add a sketch of Apap's Tritoni fountain on the tail of the Malta scheme as in a few years we are getting rid of our land marks aswell! Made in Malta as usual ... at least they are leaving the great monument that reflects our golden seaters ... the mythical Luqa monument! So sad ...

But lets keep on modelling ... keep it Libyan mate, no fantasy schemes! Those pods you have to scratch or are available resin?

Iv

no scratchbuilding required for the pods, as I found these

They are actually intended for the Jaguar, but are the same (or very similar) to the pods on the F1s

J.Fenech wrote:

AdriaN wrote:please im sick and tired of hearing all these silly (not funny) jokes of the mirages being now 'maltese airforce property'. facebook, times of malta, maltapark.. the joke has gotten a bit stale now. no offence ssm brothers

calm down Mr have a break!!!!

I know what you are saying, but we have a lot of pseudo experts in evrey field and many of the comments are truely pathetic. For starters, the mirages that landed in malta were armed with exocets - they need an opthalmologist , munitions dispenser is empty, they fired one of the magic AAM, they should have landed on the french carrier and so on!!!
The french mirages that landed here were recon configured, the only weapon carried was a single self defence magic AAM which is being replaced in service by the MICA, no offensive weapons seen on the pylons, just a pair of fuel tanks and ECM pods.

p.s. - please somebody tell me that they have seen a pair of exocet missile armed mirages land most probab;y it was a 'mirage'

Its true mr.

Dont even get me started what the experts said on the x4 french mirages!

clioguy wrote:no scratchbuilding required for the pods, as I found these

They are actually intended for the Jaguar, but are the same (or very similar) to the pods on the F1s

One problem solved ... but they look empty, probably you need some evergreen rods to fill the pods with rockets ...

Ivan

After some slow progress, and while waiting for some after-market parts to arrive, I have finally continued to work on the Mirage F1. My next task is to try and enhance the air-brakes on the kit, since the moulding there is not very good. I would appreciate if someone can guide me to a site where I can get (preferabbly) drawings of the air brakes (located beneath the front wings)

Thanks!

Duncan these may interest you, even though none are of the airbrake!

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/AWA1/301-400/walk313_F1-Mirage/walk313.htm

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/AWA1/201-300/walk248_Mirage_F1/part3/walk248c.htm

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/AWA1/201-300/walk248_Mirage_F1/part2/walk248b.htm

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/AWA1/501-600/walk551_MirageF1C_333LORRAINE/walk551.htm