Saw this new release from Eduard at the LHS today. Seems like a really major departure for them as they are best known for their WWI & WW2 AC kits. Don’t know much about this AC, but the kit looks real good in the box. Comes with a good looking decal sheet with some very colorful IDAF markings. Has anyone bought this kit or have an opinion on it ?
Rick
Guess no one has an opinion on this kit ?? I took another look today while at the LHS and it does look nice in the box. It would be spectacular with the big Yellow/Black IDAF triangle markings.Resisted temptation because I normally do WW2 & the $46.95 price tag is a little steep.
Here is a link about the pre-view report if some of you are interested:
Anthony, thanks much for the link. The reviewers impressions were same as mine. AAH, the temptation increases.
I got the Heller Mirage and planning to do an Aussie IIIO conversion. Also there’s 2x Academy IIIC’s going dirt cheap in my LHS which I might snap-up! But this new Eduard kit looks like a real winner - can’t wait til it hits down under!
I got a thang for delta wings, and the Mirage III is close to the top of my faves, along with B-58 and F-106. And I don’t even have a single Mirage. That Eduard kit is steep. I used to have the Heller kit and never got to build it. It was, I recall, molded in this really heavy, very light blue plastic with sharp detail. You could do it as a one- or two-seater. Why don’t more kit makers do this? Just realized that was a dumb question. Never mind. Um, I saw a B-58 fly over once. Next to meeting Francis Gabreski, Hub Zemke, Fitz Fulton and Neil Armstrong all in the same day, I consider it one of the highlights of my life. And I was only eight at the time. When I saw the B-58, that is. It was real low, going real fast, loud and smoky. But we were talking about Mirages weren’t we. Need rest. Sorry.
Dont touch those old kits!
They are not really in 1:48 but 1:50. I have the Academy realese same crap! no detail the worst cockpit ever and so on. Yes they are cheap but why waist?!?!
I will buy the eduard kit cause I have too. see I am biased towards IAF A/C.
especially after growing up on stories about the 6 days war.
Just read that preview and something caught my eye. He mentions the old ESCI Kits and their awful raised panel lines. They varied wildly in quality, but what I remember most about ESCI’s kits was their 1/48 Phantom kits, which had panel lines so sharp, and so deeply engraved you could have sat down and dangled your legs in them. The looked positively weird. ESCI made an absolutely egregious F-100D, and a great Storch and Cricket in quarter scale. But I gotta have that Eduard Mirage, by hook or crook.