Reasonably pleased with this one. Not often you get the chance to paint an aircraft purple (to paraphrase Cliff Clifford) although it took a few attempts to mix a shade -albeit a little pale perhaps -that came reasonably close to the photo of the real aircraft. This is WG 774, the World record speed holder, as it was painted for the 1958 Farnborough air Show (IIRC). Much of the type's flight testing was done in the south of France and obviously 'inspired' the designers at Dassault!
A couple of points to watch out for;
- don't bother cutting off the nose probe to avoid breaking it off...you'll just snap it right off again as soon as you stick it back on. Either that or drop the model on the floor. In the end I broke the nose probe three times! Take care. Needless to say I didn't bother with the etch vanes, but then they weren't always mounted. Check your refs.
- the fit of the intakes is a little 'unclear' from the instructions (stages 7 and 8) Note the 'vanes' on the inner face should be visible from the front. See the image (bottom) of the Cosford machine.
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