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Nice idea to improve the otherwise dull boringfighter. Congrats!

Awesome!, is there a place where we can see the WIP?, I would like to replicate your weathering. Since this is critique corner I would like to mention the wheels, tires look too shiny in contrast with the rest of the aircraft, I can say it because my tires look the same, I'm still looking for a technique to make them look better. Regards!

Finally a company how does not releases another F-15 or a bf-109 or more Spitfires!!! Kudos to AMK!

I'm incredible happy, we need a new up-to-date SUE, and even more if it's you who releses it, I built your Kfir and I loved it every single moment: Here's an almost finished picture of it Your engineering has nothing to envy to well established Japan manufacturers, WAY TO GO! I'll buy 6 SUE so I can build the complete flight line of Malvinas war. IMPORTANT: please check and double check two things on the decals: - Anchors, get them right please! - The sun on the tail is gold not yellow Best regards Luis

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Some progress, boys are getting ready, I'm running on mojo fumes :)

Lovely Foxbat!, the weathering makes it really really interesting what otherwise a flying gray brick, a mean looking gray flying brick but a flying brick in the end. I agree on your disliking for those persons with a ruler in the hand like to criticize this kit saying this is worthless, but if you start to dig up on their profiles don't usually show what they do. Personally I think this kit is a mix of good and bad things, detail-wise it's pretty lovely, even when some detail is wrong, fictitious or in the incorrect place, at some places it's really idiotic, some times I think they have an i

Really beautiful, it's refreshing to see something in non-us non-european colorsc :), I hope someone does a decent quarter scale one

Good to know you're better now, couple weeks ago I had a terrible cough myself, not strong but annoyingly recurrent :/ Very nice detail OOB, I like the shading you gave it, I don't remember where I seen using graphite to highlight the edges, over black doesn't seem to change the color but gives a nice metallic shine, give it a try some day. cheers!

I been playing a lot with weathering, now it's dirty as hell On the bench looks nice, so I decided to take it ouside and with a better camera takes some stills to see what's what.

Thanks Shernak! Thanks, it's a technique I seen somewhere, can't recall where. I found oils most easy to work with, most forgiving, and the most progressive, as you can add as many layers as you want and work knowing that you can take all the time you need, their main drawback are it's stronger point, they dry very slowly, but what I do to seal the job even when oils are drying is to apply the varnish, this will make the varnish not to dry as quickly as it should, but it will protect the weathering.

Exotic is such a relative term :P, I would say not-so-boring, regarding SEAC painted Mirages there's a lot to choose from, Chile, Venezuela, Peru, etc., well maybe not Peru, I plan to build most of them. Get this book, there you have lots of nice pictures plus the history of each aircraft on each air force. . Cheers

Neat looking spit! :)

Thanks?, not trying to be mean, but I gave up a long time ago trying to understand what you write, I hope you consider start writing in a language we all understand the first time we read it. Cheers

Getting there! Next in line the Mirage IIIEA, is not going to be as dirty as the Finger, but it won't be clean

Dirt time! Finger is ready to receive dirt!, last picture as factory fresh :) Oils, the greatest thing for those who cannot make up our minds when wheathering, it give you days and days to come back and to fix, and change. The underside on Mirages are usually pretty dirty and 80's Argentinian Mirages, even more. One wing done!, slowly starts to look less like the toy it is and more like the aircraft it tries to mimic. The usual colors I use in generous amounts: Fear not!, they will come off Second layer: Lighting up some areas creates a more authentic appearance:

Now working on the ordenance, this cool fuel tanks with bomb racks ready to the metallic paint coat, took quite some job to not to have seam lines, but I'm pretty sure that silver works will show some fault :( Borrowed from a Kfir kit, this PRR looks really cool fully loaded. On the background you see the 20 mk.82's snake eyes I built and won't use on this project, I'm pretty sure some F-4 maybe will accept them with no complaints :) Eight loaded and 10 more to go! Thanks for watching

Thanks for sharing, your explanation on how to correct the nose is great, I'll use it as reference to fix mine. Cheers

Lovely job Joel, you can never go wrong with a Spit, those little gems are great models to get the mojo back!. What caught my attention is the bucket seat, I always paint them interior green, that cockpit looks lovely btw. cheers!

After the boring job of painting the cannon muzzles on all three aircraft I started decaling the Finger. Obviously, argentine aircraft are not very interesting to decal companies so to do a more or less accurate Finger I have to source decals from all my collection and maybe more. Half way there Thanks for looking, Cheers!

Thanks a lot gary!

There's a few more on the decal sheet, I used the good ones. I'll post a picture later. You think that and you're right. I decided to do a Dagger instead of a Mirage before painting, and to be honest it wasn't that much work, as you can see I didn't made a big mess, using masks I preserver it pretty well.

Sure, I studied the damn thing quite a lot :)/> Daggers are a version of the Mirage V which is a simplified version of the Mirage III, so is no sourprise that some equipment was just removed. Dagger Mirage IIIDA

To protect the painjob on all three models I decided to apply a clear cote which also leaves them ready to apply the decals. I couldn't help myself and I had to apply some decals to one of them, since Aztec's set is for the EA and not much research needs to be done there I started with it. It's a mixture of Aztecs and kit decals. Something VERY disappointing was to see Aztec decals after about two years of storage show cracks, it's just not acceptable I'll write them to get a replacement. After about 30min it looks awesome!. Also tested how the fuel tanks and missile rails look installed

It's been a while since the last update, so here are some pics One of the most recognizable differences between twin-sitter Daggers and Mirages IIID is this light in the tail, so I couldn't not have it replicated.