Airfix

With practice, airbrushing gives better results, but every competent modeller needs to be confident in the use of paint brushes. Don't move on to airbrushing until you are.

Yup, he has to be able to brush-paint first, because even if you do most of your finishing woirk with an airbrush, there are still instances when you'll need to brush-paint detail work. Aldo, even a basic airbrush and compressor won't leave much change out of £150, so you and he need to know that he's really interested before shelling out.

Jack... See More - don't use those gas canisters - as you have found out, they get expensive in a hurry. You can get a basic compressor for the the cost of ten or eleven compressed gas cylinders.

Happy New Year from Brisbane Queensland. Cool night and sunny day down here on the Bay.

Yes your right that is the one I have.

Great model, you mention |"Tanguy et Laverdure"... is that the same comic that featured Micheal Tanguy ?

Yes, is a reboxed frog, i buy all Mirage III (except the horrible lindberg) for make all variations: i have a IIIC from airfix, a IIIE from Revell, a Mirage 5 from Heller, and i'm bulding now a IIIB 1/48 Heller and other 1/48 IIIE Italeri ... in the future i have to do a IIIR from Heller in 1/72 scale.

Hi Juan...Love the Mirage IIIs.....They were the fighter I grew up wanting to fly as a kid...Have you done any Australian service versions. I understand theres a couple of Australian "after market" companies do conversion kits for the Mirage III in the RAAF service with great squadron tail markings, including a Tigers Head motif.

Well done Randall, looking forward to seeing more of your work on here

i've never actually varnished a whole model before, i only usually do the transfers to protect them. any suggestions as to what i should use for the whole model would be helpful.

Klear/ Future/ Pledge floor polish, applied in thin coats with a large, flat, brush, works well as a gloss varnish. You should varnish the whole model, so as to give a constant overall level of finish.

Curious of that myself....

Way to go Airfix! It will be another great Spitfire year! (And I haven't even finished this year's new Spitfires!)

Nice profile pic there Paul!