Italeri's 1/32 Mirage III-O in RAAF service - Full Painting & Weathering

Following a brief history and Kit review, the whole painting and weathering of a Bare - metal finish is shown, much of it in time-lape. It is fully narrated with explanations throughout.

[@simonvance8054]

Nice job! For those in australia this exact plane is in the aircraft museum at Parafeild airport, Adelaide, entry is $12 and it's an open cockpit museum with planes you can sit in.

[@RB28v]

Still one of the best looking jets ever IMO, especially in the natural metal finish. Losing 40+ aircraft of 116 is crazy!

[@allgood6760]

Thanks mate... I didn't know this kit existed... we used to get them at Kiwi airshows 👍🇳🇿

[@user-zh3wy3tl7f]

Cool. Doing that plane But with french camo.
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Great job with the bmf!!!

[@sergelibe4946]

Bel avion ,un chef -d 'oeuvre dans la réalité et en maquette .👍👍👍

[@bubbapipe]

Thank you for sharing your tips and techniques. Great video and it is much appreciated.

[@PanGryzon]

Alclad gloss black is notorious for long drying time. I recommend using Mr. Color GX2 Ueno Black. Fast drying, self leveling, perfect surface for metallics.

[@KitplaneEnthusiast]

Awesome video!

[@peterdignum2647]

the notch in the L/E creates laminar flow across the chord reducing the buffering mentioned in this video - cheers Pete mirage maniac and senior aircraft engineer Qantas

[@danwilliams1686]

I've been modeling for over 47 years and the natural metal finish is indeed frustrating. I've tried everything including a large investment in alclad ii paints. The tamiya washes will strip the the paint and then you will have to redo your model. Ugh. Also the aircraft at work used to be a natural metal finish and they become oxidized after a few hours of flight, with a dusty dull kind of aluminum look to them . So often times models look better than the real thing! But, what works for me is tamiya bare metal silver spray and silver leaf spray. These colors look the closest to the real thing. Anyway thanks for the build and the info. This is a very beautiful model .

[@jpht1964]

Why where there generic roundels on the wings instead of the roundel with the kangaroo?

[@HelixRsix]

Nice job I would have loved to see the camouflage version to love this old plane

[@zhotdune]

Yeah..me too!

[@dominique4700]

Bravo, trés belle maquette

[@parfittdignum6458]

61 63 65 67 69 and 71 73 75 77 79 serials were built in France to cover shortfalls due to industrial strikes by local unions

[@BIGM-gg9ln]

waaaaaaaaaaaayyyy to much work for me. great job!!

[@christopherbrett]

So, you do commissions? Can we chat?

[@scalemodelcinema9900]

sure, maybe send an email through the scale model cinema website (just .com.au at end) and we can chat

[@bigyin2586]

Based on superior German technology. Not really.

[@tomroland2315]

Actually based on some shared British technology, we could have had something like this if we hadn't been bloody stupid.