The Duke Down in Africa

[Duke Maddog]

Hey everyone, I found a simple model to build for this campaign so here I am entering it now.


I'll be building the Matchbox Mirage IIIC and using the South African markings on this model. Here are the startup pics for this:

To start out, I cemented the pilot to the bang seat and then added him to the fuselage since that's all that the cockpit comprises! No pics of that, sorry; I jumped straight to closing up the fuselage:

Later on I'll paint the pilot and whatever interior that can be seen and I'll close up the canopy and mask it. Before that, I assembled the wings and added them to this plane:

Once the canopy is all closed up and masked; this bird will be ready for paint.

That's all I have for now, thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.

 

[Sharkmouth]

That was fast!

Regards,

 

[moon puppy]

 

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks Saul! Yeah, Matchbox kits sure are quick!

Thanks Bob!

 

[razordws]

Nice choice!

 

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks Dave! I won't get overly fancy with this. I just want to get it done and looking good enough.

 

[Duke Maddog]

Okay I have a bit of time and so I have spent it focusing on finishing some campaigns for once. This is one of them.

Last you saw I had the whole thing closed up. After that I painted the pilot in situ and then closed him up under the canopy:

Later I masked the canopy to prepare for painting:

After that dried, I shot the top of the plane with primer. It is still wet in this pic:

The bottom was sprayed later once the top dried:

Over all that, I shot a coat of Tamiya Bare Metal Silver right out of the rattle can:

Man that stuff shoots on smooth....

I was then ready to start applying the decals to this, but then I looked at the version I wanted to do:

The red lines behind the cockpit, on the edges of the intakes, and down the wing roots were not included as decals. Out came the masking tape.....

I masked off the lines, as well as the nose cone in preparation for paint:.

First I shot the nose cone:

Then I shot the red lines:

It turned out better than I had hoped it would:

After that, I applied the decals, added the landing gear and gear doors and finished it up.


Here is one of the finished pics of this aircraft. The rest will be in the Finished Campaign thread:

Thanks for looking in and following my campaign!

Now to try and get my ribbon....