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The Fata Morgana G

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I know, I said somewhere I do have figures and BMW and what so ever on the table, yes, that was right, but then this Groub buuild started where I promised to be in, so I cleaned my desk and got it out

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From what I know the Phaedra kit is the only Mirage G kit ever made. The kit showed up quite a while ago in 2011 and having some scale modeling friends in France did help to get one with a reasonable price tag. Nowadays the prices for those are rediciolous high.

As the box tells, it was first flown 1967; only one of the G was build and it crashed 1971. After the G followed the G-4 with already 2 engines but this was only a quick in between version. Very soon after the G-4 the G-8 followed from which 2 were built. The G-8 with 2 engines is available from Anigrand or Planet Models and Modelsvit said that they will do one too. From the G-8 the G8A with fixed wings was designed, but only a mockup was built. The G8A was available from Shakrkit but it looks like Sharkit is history - well at least for now.
From The G there was also a Mockup done for a swing wing plane with two engines which was thought to be a British-French Swing Winger, but that also never got very far.

For me all Mirage always were my biggest interest and I did collect books and kits but with my big stash sale 6 or 7 years ago, a lot of them were sold. I only kept some of the very seldom ones, so I also have the Phaedra Mirage III F2 in stash and some others.

OK enough about that.

That is what's in the box
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That's all. So downside is only some French textual written instructions and some missing decals, upside is you dont have to cut the pieces from big castings
 
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and here is the explanation for my complaining about the missing decals:

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on the rudder on top of the blue-white-red there is written "AVIONS MARCEL DASSAULT MIRAGE G".
Next to the also missing "Mirage G" near the radom there is written "AVION EXPERIMENTAL A GEOMETRIE VARIABLE".
The Text between the warning signs below the canopies i don't know. I could not find a image where the text would be readable. It is the little rescue window for opening the canopies from extern

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The last is not that essential, some "dots" would be enough in 1/72, but the other three are a must have for that

And, yes all of them are on both sides.

So, if I cannot find some decals, I would have to print some.
 
and, yes, I already started the decals.

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So far it looks usable. All I have to do now is to print them, which isn't a problem at all. But, years ago I sold all my enamel paints because of the smell, and now I need some clear varnish to fix the decals - well, then I'll probably go and buy a pot of paint.

For the Mirage not much has happened so far, a few repairs of some very tiny holes, some sanding of mold errors but not much and the two fuselage halves are glued together

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Thanks for looking in
 
There are images showing it with externale tanks, but this was only a protype, it never went operational, but .. Vought, which were busy thinking about a concept which later became a plane called Tomcat made a lot of testing on this one.
 
Oh My! Yes I have some resin plane kits, but they are always not for the faint hearted. So far so good!
An interesting plane to be sure!
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Thanks a lot Gentlemen!

it is quite a simple build so far. Sure some filling and sanding, but that is to be expected with an all resin kit. So it is taking up shape

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So up for the details inside the pit, not that much, but a little more than only some seats
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Thanks for looking in
 
Thanks a lot Gentlemen!

I had quite some fun with the canopy, it did not want to fit in very well but some magic sculp did help in the end

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it is not perfect but will do.

so the first base level of grey did find its way onto the Fata Morgana

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Thanks for looking in
 
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