1/72 Dassault Ouragan (Heller)

Closed canopy is the option here.







Yep, low parts count.









Taped up - no major issues.



The only spot that looks like it will have any work is the rear wing underside to lower fuselage joint.



No ordnance included here. The Israelis used these mostly as a ground-attack platform. I've got a set of unguided rockets from a late-mark Academy Spitfire. Think I'll try to modify some old drop tanks to play the part of napalm tanks, I saw a pic last night of that setup. The other option seems to be a pair of 500-pound bombs.

For anyone who thinks it's just an urban legend, YES, it really does work.

9-10 days of good Canadian sunlight...

.    So...9-10 days of Canadian sunlight would equate to how many days of Georgian sunlight?  

Revenant

.    So...9-10 days of Canadian sunlight would equate to how many days of Georgian sunlight?  

about three hours.

Next up, the cockpit. As the canopy will be closed I won't be going overboard with detailing here. Added some masking tape harness straps as they'll be quite visible.

Noseweights set me back a grand total of 4 cents Canadian, fit in there just right.



Attachment points sorted out for the rocket racks...



SQUIRREL!!!!



Peanuts for SQUIRREL!!! Nothing but the good stuff. I'm secretly hoping he starts wearing a monocle.



Right, where was I? Fuselage sealed up, wings assembled & attached, elevators attached. Very little putty needed topside, a little more on the underside, but to be honest I saw a lot of "If I'd done this instead of that" moments that could've reduced the putty even more.

10 days of Canadian sunlight would ba about the same a 1-2 here in South Africa in the summer LOL.

Theuns

Theuns

10 days of Canadian sunlight would ba about the same a 1-2 here in South Africa in the summer LOL.

Theuns

Very likely, we get lots of sun, most of it is for decoration only.  :)

So, this brief bench session was mostly spent carefully blending & buffing the putty spots. There wasn't a whole lot to be done, but I was trying to preserve as much of the raised panel lines as I can.

Spent a little time cleaning up the landing gear. The nose gear is probably "scale proper", but I've got a bad feeling about it not being broken. 1mm?



Annd the cockpit is still sorta-visible after being trapped between the fuselage halves. Sorta.





I found a few small pinholes in my puttied areas. Instead of more putty that would have to be applied-sanded-polished all over again, I brushed on some Future, which I had out anyway to dip the canopy in.

Picked away at some fiddlybits. Landing gear parts, gear bay covers. ALSO in this pic is the scrap of cardboard I used to get my curve for the funky bomb pylons that this machine has. Transferred that onto sheet styrene, sanded & refined, then looked & thought they weren't thick enough, so I've laminated them to another scrap of styrene.



Primer on here now, had a superglue fingerprint that had to be cleaned up & re-primed.  Everything else looked good though.

Figured I'd finish forming the bomb pylons. They still need the attachment points, but I'm happy with the size/shape now.



Not much to show, butt, any progress... y'know...

Rockets from an Academy Spitfire. Tails added, ejector pin holes puttied. I'm thinking there should be a 2nd "connector rail" or whatever it would be called at the rear of those rockets though?

Annnnd digging through my Tamiya acrylics, I think I can actually do some mixing & get what I'm looking for.

The blue-green mix:




The earth/brown mix:

Grabbed one of the rudder ID decals from the French option. Sample decal checked out fine.

And paint has been slung:






2 coats of Future laid down, decals applied:





The decals were a little stiff/paper-y, but I really only had any trouble with the big toothy smile laying down on that compound curve. Not horrible, I'll get it set as well as I can with solution + Future, then carefully sand away any raised areas, touch it up with paint.

Not happy with my attempted napalm tanks. scrapped'em, scavenged a pair of iron bombs in their place. Rockets need to be touched up as well. Sometimes I hate the zoom-ins, but it does show faults better than the old eyeball for some reason. Didn't like the original rocket colour, repainted them, touchups to the rails tonight. Bomb#1 worked fine, bomb#2, the decal stripe got all screwed up, gotta fix that.

BEFORE

AFTER a couple rounds of hand-applied touchups using Vallejo acrylics, annnd 4 or 5 applications of Future to level things out. Not perfect, but, better.

.      Hmmmmmmm...nice save on the shark mouth...

You are knocking this build out quickly...what's the deal?

Well, the deal is, it's not a QUICK build at all, I just hadn't posted up my progress here, so I'm playing catchup. I actually started picking away at it in the summer, shelved it for several months, & just realllly got back into it a few weeks back.

Nicely done.  I am looking forward to your final reveal!  This is a very interesting build.

Toshi

VanceCrozier

Well, the deal is, it's not a QUICK build at all, I just hadn't posted up my progress here, so I'm playing catchup. I actually started picking away at it in the summer, shelved it for several months, & just realllly got back into it a few weeks back.

 

Nice job so far on this interesting aircraft. TY for taking the time to post all your progress.

Nice save on that decal up front Vance. Good to see you back on it.

An update would be kinda nice...

Revenant

An update would be kinda nice...

lol, the update is.... COMPLETE. Err, well, complete enough for me to take final pics. I always seem to spot something after the pics, that I want to touch up. So these are my 99% pics.

VC's traditional "99% pics"...