recently finished this 1:48 Rafale. Built OOB, due to not being able to find any suitable FAF decals readily available at the time! Its the C version which comes with decals for the Arctic Tiger scheme, but I just wanted a standard grey one after watching them at Waddington last year
The kit goes together mostly well, there are parts in the box which I assume are for the Marine version so you have to be careful to get the correct parts. Because of the shape of the forward fuselage, you have to be quite careful and patient when putting the 2 halves together, and it needs to be done in stages to get the shape right. If anyone's contemplating doing one id suggest watching the excellent youtube videos with the guy from Flory models, helped me a lot.
Anyway, the other issues were the usual one of not knowing exactly the shade of grey thanks to the French not using the FS system, and as much as I tried I couldn't get the canopy perfectly clean
(I've not decided whether to have the canopy open or not so for the photos its just placed on, so in some not perfectly aligned!!)The decals are ok, some just wouldn't sit down without showing a bit of film despite micro sol/set etc, but its not too noticeable(except in the bright sunshine I decided to do the photos in, doh!!)
There are plenty of weapons/stores choices due to the modular nature of the kit, so you have good choices there, or some nice spares
The refuelling probe wont sit at the correct angle really, and I will probably at some stage chop the canards and move them toward the body slightly as the seem a little too far out to me.
It was airbrushed using Mr Color Acrylic paints and weathered using Flory Models Dark dirt wash for a bit of contrast.
Other than those minor issues, a really enjoyable build, that to me looks far better on the shelf than it does in the pics, typical!!
Revell 1.48 Rafale C 127-3 by Jonathan Francis, on Flickr
Revell 1.48 Rafale C 127-10 by Jonathan Francis, on Flickr
Revell 1.48 Rafale C 127-7 by Jonathan Francis, on Flickr
Revell 1.48 Rafale C 127-11 by Jonathan Francis, on Flickr
Revell 1.48 Rafale C 127-13 by Jonathan Francis, on Flickr
Revell 1.48 Rafale C 127-14 by Jonathan Francis, on Flickr
Revell 1.48 Rafale C 127-4 by Jonathan Francis, on Flickr
Revell 1.48 Rafale C 127-8 by Jonathan Francis, on Flickr
Revell 1.48 Rafale C 127-2 by Jonathan Francis, on FlickrThanks for looking
Jon