1/48 ACE Corporation Dassault Rafale M

Gallery Article by Paolo Yuen on Sept 16 2011

 

It was a very well detailed model, at first it was released by Revell but now they can used their band to released. It was made in Korea same as Revell but the decals are not good as the graphic and quality. I sprayed a layer of water base gloss coat on it after it dried and used it will be more soft and not easy broken!

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Without help of the resin cockpit or photo etch it was straight build of box, I used the 0.7mm masking tape to make the safety belt and the canopy was sprayed a clear black color.

About the landing gear, it was very big and thick, I know the real plane is like this but it was not very good looking, after assembly it was not good then I took it off and made it an in-flight version.  Because of the bad decals, most of the orange color stencil I did not put, and spray a thin layer of fuselage color to make the decal’s color not too bright.

Paolo Yuen

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Photos and text © by Paolo Yuen