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Mirage 2000 B 1/48
Ray- Best in Show
- Posts : 6102
Join date : 2009-07-21
Age : 61
Location : Zurrieq MALTA
Looking good Andrew 
Andrewt- Posts : 45
Join date : 2013-10-10
Thanks ray 
skyhigh- Best in Show
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Join date : 2009-07-30
Age : 63
Location : Qormi, Malta
Eh.. Andrew your making progress already... bravo....
Panos Gaoutsis- Posts : 38
Join date : 2013-06-06
Age : 38
Location : Corfu, Greece
Hello Andrew, looking good so far!
This walkaround can be useful
http://www.primeportal.net/hangar/luc_colin3/mirage_2000b_french_af/
A tip when it comes to assembling wings that can minimize any gaps, is to glue lenghts of sprues or toothpicks at the bottom edges of the fuselage (like in spoiler). This causes fuselage edges to scretch to the proper width, i applied it on my Mirages and saved me from a lot of putty and sanding
And a couple of notes concerning the kit from what i noticed till now.
Make sure to dry fit the part of the spine (parts E10/E11) and the small piece at the fuselage ending (parts E27/E28), as they may seem wider on the fuselage. I had to sand join points before gluing them together (see spoiler again).
Assemble parts E17/E18, they are used by all production aircrafts.
Don't forget to also assemble parts C34, C32 (two pieces), they are not mentioned by the instructions.
Hope i've helped!
This walkaround can be useful
http://www.primeportal.net/hangar/luc_colin3/mirage_2000b_french_af/
A tip when it comes to assembling wings that can minimize any gaps, is to glue lenghts of sprues or toothpicks at the bottom edges of the fuselage (like in spoiler). This causes fuselage edges to scretch to the proper width, i applied it on my Mirages and saved me from a lot of putty and sanding
- Spoiler:
And a couple of notes concerning the kit from what i noticed till now.
Make sure to dry fit the part of the spine (parts E10/E11) and the small piece at the fuselage ending (parts E27/E28), as they may seem wider on the fuselage. I had to sand join points before gluing them together (see spoiler again).
- Spoiler:
- The red line where i sanded the parts, in order to adjust their width and align them with the rest of fuselage (blue lines)
Assemble parts E17/E18, they are used by all production aircrafts.
Don't forget to also assemble parts C34, C32 (two pieces), they are not mentioned by the instructions.
Hope i've helped!
Gordon- Gold
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Join date : 2009-07-23
Age : 44
Location : bormla
well done looking good
Andrewt- Posts : 45
Join date : 2013-10-10
Thanks for the tips. I noticed that the instructions have some mistakes when it comes to part numbers
bcauchi- Best in Show
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Join date : 2009-07-30
Age : 63
Location : St. Julian's
Coming along nicely, keep up the good work.
Andrewt- Posts : 45
Join date : 2013-10-10
Panos, you are right about the spine (parts E10/E11) . it is too wide! and even to high.
