Well this my first 1/72 kit after
my first 1/48 Academy Sukhoi 30. Well this the Mirage 2000 with the Indian Air Force
which has quite few of these 2 seater versions and are being suited for nuclear
delivery operations.
The
kit is the Italeri offering for the 2000D, which comes in an end-opening box.
The plastic parts are included on two sprues of gray plastic. The engraving is
mixed, mainly engraved, with raised lines on the pylons. Also the depth of the
engraving varies, with stronger lines on the fuselage, but looks quite usable.
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The
cockpit is fitted out the usual way for this scale, the instrument panels have
raised detail and the multi-part ejection seats look not bad. As stores we get
the a big under-fuselage drop tank, two air-to-surface missiles (AS.30) and two
laughable 'Magic' AAM. Also, a targeting pod is supplied.
Well constructing the kit
wasn’t difficult at all. Well I completed the whole kit with painting job
within one week. Well I had some fixing problem with the air intakes which
wasn’t fixing accurately I had to do a lot o sanding to get it smooth. One
more problem I had with the kit was that they didn’t supplied guns with the
kit!
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Well I have brush painted the kit
since don’t have a airbrush. The paint scheme (two tone) is of the Mirage 2000
aircraft with serial no KT 202 Of the Indian Air Force. Well you will find the
serial no (KT 202) decal missing because I didn’t have time to print one which
I will be doing later . Sorry for that.
Well decals supplied with the kit were pretty good but I got the Indian
Air Force decals from Mr.Murli Rajan.
Aamod
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