Scale Aviation Modeller International – September 2019

D

uring the Six-Day

War, fought between

5 and 10 June 1967,

Israel chose to deploy

its Mirage III leet ofensively

over the demilitarised zone

located on the Israeli side of

the border with Syria. A small

detachment of 12 Mirages

(comprising 4 permanently in

the air and 8 at a high state of

readiness on the ground) were

assigned to defend the skies

of Israel against attacks by

hostile bombers, virtually all

other Mirages were equipped

with bombs and deployed on

bombing raids against Arab air

bases. During the irst day of

combat, a total of 6 MiGs ere

claimed to have been shot down

by the Mirages, and during

the following days, Mirages

typically performed as ighters,

and out of a claimed total of 58

Arab aircraft shot down in air

combat during the conlict, 48

were accounted for by Mirages.

COCKPIT AND

INTERIOR

Construction began with the

cockpit, which was built as per

the instructions and primed in

black. I also painted the inside

of each fuselage half including

the inside of the engine and

internal nacelle for the exhaust.

The ejection seat was then

built, primed and painted in

black with the seat cushions

painted in a dark sand colour.

The details were then picked up

with a little bit of dry brushing.

Seatbelts were from the

Eduard etched set and glued

into place using a little drop of

CA glue on the end of a cocktail

stick. The rest of the cockpit

etched parts were then glued

into place, followed by dry

brushing the entire tub. Once

the cockpit had time to dry,

this, along with the build

MIRAGE IIICJ

MANUFACTURER: Eduard

SCALE: 1/48

KIT TYPE: Injection moulded plastic

KIT NUMBER: 259

KIT DETAILS

Barry Koervers builds an IDF Mirage IIICJ using the 1/48 Eduard kit

DEFENDER

SINAI

Construction began

with the cockpit

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FE ATURE

BY BARRY KOERVERS

MIRAGE IIICJ

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