Here is my Italeri Mirage F1. Built straight from the box. Added some scratch built seat belts and that it. Got the kit from a friend who bought it for parts for a full detail one he was building. So the kit was missing the external tank and the decals.
Kit painted with Tamiya acrylics.
Quick review. Kit is a later printing so some of the detail on the lower fuselages is gone. Also had some fit issues and slight warping. Overall it went together well.
Cockpit detail is terrible. I scratchbuilt some seat belts and pads but closed the cockpit. There is a resin cockpit available but I decided against it. This was a kit I built over the coarse of one month as a breack from all the complex kits I was doing at the time. I didnt want to spend too much time on it. If you decide to build one, definatly splurge on a resin cockpit. Just a resin seat wont cut it. I have a spare resin ejector seat for the kit but its made for the resin cockpit and wouldn’t fit in the kit cockpit. Too tall and wide. So I went with the original seat.
Would I build another one? Yeah I would. I like the lines of the plane and no major issues with the build. It was quiet enjoyable. I’d probably do one in grey colors and with all the aftermarket accessories on it. But I have other more important kits to build.