One model per (non-working) day

[papermate]

Hi, Gerry, that's not a Phantom but a Sky Knight, please confirm.

Papermate

[herky]

Originally Posted by Gerry1966

Dear friends, I'm partially back in model making, after long long break. And I'v prepared a small gift(s) for you. I've began to redraw some Bruno's free kits. My versions are redrawn, rescaled into 1/72, added landing gear and some other detailes .... Simple models, but I think they looks nice and I hope you'd like it. I've got Bruno's permission to upload them here, so here it is.
First model, waiting for approvement, is Dassault Etendard IVM (Aeronavale, Flotille 17F, Hyéres 1980). Another ones will follow soon (maybe today or tomorrow?) ;-)

thank you to you for doing these.i love hismodels but struggle at that scale.will await to see what else you rescale

[herky]

Originally Posted by scissorsandplanes

Indeed, Gerry has my permission. Thanks for sharing.

And these releases will not prevent me (on a later date) to create 1/100 scale models of the same planes.

I got here this evening. Some alignment problems will be corrected soon.
Bruno

thank you for letting him do these.i love your models but struggle at the small scale

[herky]

Originally Posted by Gerry1966

Well well well, I'm in the right mood to add as much of recolors as I can.
So, today you can look forward to following models:
- Dassault Etendard IVP (Aeronavale, Flotille 16, Landivisiau 1991)
- Korean Aerospace Industries KAI FA-50 Golden Eagle (ROKAF, unknown squadron, 2016)
- McDonnell FH-1 Phantom (US Navy, VF-171, USS Midway,1949)
- Supermarine Attacker FB.2 (FAA, 800. NAS, HMS Eagle, 1952)

Another models would follow ....maybe .... ;-)
Hope you'd like it.

i dont know who did the singapore airlines concord but would like to build that at a bigger scale if possible

[cafe]

Originally Posted by papermate

Hi, Gerry, that's not a Phantom but a Sky Knight, please confirm.

Papermate

It's indeed a Phantom, the first by that name: McDonnell FH-1 Phantom (1st flight january 1945, retired from front line units in 1949, retired from reserve units in 1954)

The more famous Phantom II started its life as the McDonnell F4H-1F in 1958 and became the F-4A after 1962.

The Skynight was a Douglas (F3D, 1st flight march 1948, redesignated F-10 after 1962) and is fatter than the FH-1 Phantom.

[gomidefilho]

Originally Posted by Gerry1966

Well well well, I'm in the right mood to add as much of recolors as I can.
So, today you can look forward to following models:
- Dassault Etendard IVP (Aeronavale, Flotille 16, Landivisiau 1991)
- Korean Aerospace Industries KAI FA-50 Golden Eagle (ROKAF, unknown squadron, 2016)
- McDonnell FH-1 Phantom (US Navy, VF-171, USS Midway,1949)
- Supermarine Attacker FB.2 (FAA, 800. NAS, HMS Eagle, 1952)

Another models would follow ....maybe .... ;-)
Hope you'd like it.

Gerry1966 I really apreciate you work! In fact Entendard's and FH-1 I printed in 1/100 and wait for build...

Many tahnk's and keep new upscales from excellent Bruno designs

[gomidefilho]

Originally Posted by scissorsandplanes

Indeed, Gerry has my permission. Thanks for sharing.

And these releases will not prevent me (on a later date) to create 1/100 scale models of the same planes.

I got here this evening. Some alignment problems will be corrected soon.
Bruno

Bruno, I like a lot the comemorative paint of Mirage III! Awesome work my friend!

[scissorsandplanes]

Thanks, Gerry for the recolors, and the others for the nice comments.

Finished the test build, corrected some alignment issues and now preparing for release.

[scissorsandplanes]

Did some recolors today.
(after a long week at work, finally)
Here they are: mirage IIIEO, EA and EL
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[cafe]

If I'm not mistaken the Mirage IIIEL/BL had the fin root extension. Here is a picture on an ex-lebanese Mirage IIIEL operated by Pakistan.



The ex-lebanese Mirage IIIBL in Pakistani service:



Pakistan bought a lot of second hand Mirages in the 1990ies and 2000s: from Australia (Mirage IIIO and IIID), from France (Mirage 5F and IIIBE), from Spain (Mirage IIIEE & DE, only for spare parts), from Lebanon (Mirage IIIEL and BL), from Libya (Mirage 5D, DE, DR, DD, a few DD and DR entered pakistani service, most were used for spare parts) and the south African stock of spare parts.

ETA: found a pic of a Mirage IIIEL in lebanese markings.

ETA2: The Mirage III/5/50 profile book from Histoire & Collections has a picture on page 24 of the other side of this plane showing the serial as 504L (in latin text and western arabic numerals (ie "our" numerals)).