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Nathan Dempsey
The next project is up and running. This one will likely get a slow start as there's another hurricane headed my way…

Nathan Dempsey
Well we survived that darn hurricane and had power restored yesterday by some fine Canadian fellows from Nova Scotia. The project continues with some progress to the fuselage.

Clifford Keesler
Watching. Glad you weathered the hurricane ok. Did not know you were in Florida. I am a transplanted Florida guy. I am from Panama City. Was down there the end of August, first time I had been back since 2001. Hurricane Michael sure messed up the place, but they have rebuilt a lot. The house I lived in from 1995-2001 no longer exist, hurricane Michael leveled it.

Nathan Dempsey
We were part of mandatory evac. I sent the family away and stayed since my parents are next door in a 100 year old frame home. We were lucky and had minimal damage. We just lost large oaks and our entire cow field was a shallow lake. Power was out for a while but I'm used to living simple during such times. Yeah Michael was a monster.

The plastic in this kit is quite fragile. Getting parts off the tree cleanly is quite difficult. Very happy with the ResKit parts! They are very clean and easy to prepare.

Nathan Dempsey
More work today included adding etched parts to the rear fuselage and filling large holes intended for oversized antennas. Will be replacing all antennas with etched parts or thin plastic sheet.

Clifford Keesler
Looking good Nathan. Glad you only had minor damage, and all is well.

Clifford Keesler
I have 2 ESCI Mirage 2000's wonder if they are the same as the Heller kit?

Nathan Dempsey
Thank you sir! The Heller kit is the same as the Eduard kit. I believe the ESCI kit is now the Italeri kit.

Clifford Keesler
OK, thanks. Any way I have 2, hope they are good.

Nathan Dempsey
Work continues. Today I added some etched hydraulic lines to the rear landing gear. Preparation begins for the ResKit wheel set.

Clifford Keesler
Looking very nice sir.

Desert Marlin
Excellent work!!!

Dutch
Nathan, I love checking in from time to time, (super busy with Hurricane Helene and Milton recovery at the house and the rented house.). Anyway, glad to see you start this project. Did you ever build the Monogram Mirage 2000 and ESCI Jaguar I sold you? K/r, Dutch

Nathan Dempsey
Thanks Clifford & Desert!

Dutch: Same here. Still cutting downed trees and burning it all. Too much to place by the streets. The Mirage waits in the stash and the Jag was built as a close copy of my Kosovo build and given to a friend.

Nathan Dempsey
Added some photos of continuing work which includes more paint work on the landing gear and exhaust, the addition of the painted ejection seat to the cockpit & the completed external fuel tank.

Clifford Keesler
Beautiful work.

Desert Marlin
Looks great! I suppose you are aware that the Mirage 2000 series aircraft have the option of an arresting hook or a parachute for landing? I believe either can be installed but only one of the two depending on airfields and conditions. Referring to photo #5.

Nathan Dempsey
Thanks Clifford & thanks for the catch on that parachute housing Desert!

I found a good picture of a '91 Mirage 2000 with the bigger chaff dispenser replacing the back of that housing. I'll need to go back and file that off and change the position of all the chaff dispensers. I'll add some pictures this evening.

Laurent VILLANUEVA HELLER ForEver
je vais suivre = 2000 et daguet !

Laurent VILLANUEVA HELLER ForEver
color pit = humbrol 27
radome = 64 ,
grey 127
blue = 144 with white...

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Nathan Dempsey
Welcome Laurent and thanks for the color info! Paint work is near.

Thanks Guy! 🙂

Desert Marlin
The chaff dispenser sits over the parachute housing and therefore the chute can still be used!

Clifford Keesler
Looking very nice Nathan.

Nathan Dempsey
Desert: Glad you pointed it out. I'd have been crying if I'd already started paint work.
Clifford: Thank you Sir!

Finally back at the bench and was able to do some pre-shading today.

Desert Marlin
Love this stage of the build! Looks great!

Clifford Keesler
Looking most impressive Nathan, another master piece in the making.

Björn Svedberg
I've started the build of the Tamiya Birdcage Corsair. The plan is to build it with folded wings along with the pilots and ground crew kit.

Daniel Klink
Hi Björn... nice to read you again following of course.
Hope you are doing fine!

James C
Off to a great start. Following 👍

Björn Svedberg
Thank you friends! 🙂
I'm fine thank you, Daniel! Hope you are doing fine, too!

Erik Leijdens
Great start Björn! Looks good, as always!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Wonderful work on Cockpit and engine! I am looking forward seeing your skills at work!

Björn Svedberg
Thank you Erik and Roland! 🙂
A little bit of an update. I have finished the riveting and the masking of the cockpit and I have also done the pre-shading and marbling before the paint.
I decided to go with a paint set from Hataka this time, so the next update will have to wait until it arrives.

Björn Svedberg
Another update. The camo is finished. Although I'm happy with the end result, the Hataka paints is going to take a while to get used to. They are not like the gunze/mr. color and Tamya that I usually use.
Next up is decals. 🙂

James C
The camouflage and colours look amazing 👍
Do you mind me asking what was happening with the Hataka paints and were you using the acrylic set?

Björn Svedberg
Thanks James!
Yes, it was the acrylic set. I had a couple of things happen. I used the Hataka acrylic thinner to thin the paint for the airbrush and it had quite alot of soapy stuff in it creating bubbles in the paint mix in the cup of the airbrush, which resulted in a very uneven paint spray out of the airbrush. I guess that could just be me getting the mix wrong, but I will probably use tamiya X-20A as a thinner the next time.
The second thing is that I sometimes use Mr.Color Leveling thinner to thin acrylic paints and that did not work at all with these paints. That mix turned into a stringy gunk that clogged up the airbrush.
But I'm sure they will work just fine when I have worked with them a bit more and learned how to use them properly. As I said, I am happy with the end result. 🙂

James C
Thanks for the info... I've got a couple Hataka acrylic sets that I've not tried yet.

Guillaume Blanchet
Looking great so far!

Clifford Keesler
Agree with everyone, looking great.

Slavo Hazucha
I´ll pop in here too - progress looks great so far - I really like your approach to surface wear 👍

Björn Svedberg
Thank you Guillaume, Clifford and Slavo.
Decals are now on so the next step is weathering and some detail painting to finish it up. 🙂

Björn Svedberg
I have done the first stage of weathering with oil washes and a matt layer on top of that. After assembly, I will do some additional weathering and detail painting. I will keep it as clean as I can for this one.

Laurent VILLANUEVA HELLER ForEver
fabulous

Chris Church
Detail work on the cockpit and engine looks fantastic.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Precisely done work, looks just wonderful!

Clifford Keesler
Looking awesome sir.

Scott Dutton
Beautiful work, I enjoy seeing how people paint at what level of subassemblies Vs masking. Your airbrush control is amazing, the preshading is a work of art by itself

Björn Svedberg
Thank you Laurent, Chris, Roland, Clifford and Scott! 🙂
The Corsair is now finished, but I still have the moto-tug and the pilots and crew to finish before I close this project.

bughunter
What a clean work and paint job 👍 all those little lovely sub assemblies ... Wonderful!

Christian Kohl
Very nice job, Björn. Very lovely done!😉

Hanno Kleinecke
What a paintjob ! You perfectly captured the sun beaten, chalked out look of these hard used airplanes !

Micky
Excelent paint job!

Björn Svedberg
Thank you very much for all the feedback, mates! 🙂
I've added the Eduard Essex class carrier deck to the project, so I will have to find some good reference for the painting. It looks like it will be a nice addition with all the weathered wood and steel.😉

Björn Svedberg
Another update. I have started working on the figures and finished the little moto-tug. Next will be some figure painting. 🙂

Micky
Watching with interest Björn!!

Björn Svedberg
You are very welcome, Micky! 🙂
Another update. I have finished the drop tank and also worked on the carrier deck. I will probably do some more weathering of the deck in the future. Tyre marks oil spill etc, but as for now I consider it finished. Now I only have the figure painting left to do.

Slavo Hazucha
The deck looks absolutely fabulous, great contrast between metal & wood and top mild weathering effects 👍

bughunter
Very nice detail painting on the deck! I like it 👍

Clifford Keesler
That is looking very very nice.

Christian Kohl
Very nice work Björn. It's really fun to watch what you're doing.

Björn Svedberg
Thank you Slavo, bughunter, Clifford and Christian!
I have finished the figure painting and taken a few finishing photos. This project was alot of fun to do! 🙂
On to the next one!😉

James C
Outstanding build Björn. The Corsair looks amazing, and the crew figures are the icing on the cake. Phenomenal paintwork! 👍👍👍

Clifford Keesler
Beautiful work on the figures, and Corsair. Well done.

Lochsa River
Really Nice....congratulations

Roland Sachsenhofer
Impressive piece of modeling art, wonderful work and outcome! Congratulations Björn!

Germen V
very nice, congrats

Alex Rodionov
Great work. No words.

Neuling
Very beautiful diorama in every aspect. A feast for the eyes indeed.👍👍👍

Daniel Klink
Fully agree with Neuling..
Especially the Figures looking awesome 👍
But they are all missing the eyes..

Björn Svedberg
Thank you very much, mates! You all inspire me to become a better modeler! And the feedback is very much appreciated. 🙂
@Daniel, Thank you, and yes, painting eyes in this scale is something I haven't mastered yet. I promise you that they would look far more creepy if I had tried that.😉

bughunter
The group of pilots is absolutely impressive, very lifelike! Not just the painting, but also the postures and last but not least the photography! Awesome!

berni
Hello Björn, a very good result for someone who started modeling in 2017 👍

Björn Svedberg
Thank you bughunter and berni! 🙂

Mark
Outstanding build and figures 👍👍👍

Paul Moore
That's a VERY impressive build! The diorama is beautiful. I have a question about the wooden deck - I thought they were all painted blue at the beginning of the war. Do you have any info on that question. The paint job on the Corsair is just the right amount of shading.

Desert Marlin
Really awesome!!! Love the decking!!!

Clifford Keesler
Beautiful build sir.