Fouga CM.170R Magister (Belgian Air Force) 1/72

[draken35]

Valom released recently different boxes of the Fouga Magister at 1/72 scale. I've bought this one, that is consacred to the Belgian Air Force.
You can build one of two Belgian Fouga's: firstly the MT-24 with the classic aluminium livery; and the second one the MT-35 bearing an unusual "vietnam" camo. At his time some Belgian aircrafts were painted with the Vietnam camo: Thunderstreak, Thunderflash, F-104, Mirage 5... The crew of the Air Force made a kind of joke, painting the MT-35 with those 3-tones colors.

The MT-35 flew some times with that livery but finally was repainted in alu. It was also the last Fouga used by the BAF...

VALOM is a Czech company that realises short run kits. But when opening the box, you are wondering what does short run mean: kit is simply gorgeous! No flash; very fine injected parts; some photoetched elements; film for instrument panels; nice decals; some resin parts and what is gorgeous is that you have no less than 4 canopies: two are injected; one being the closed one and the second the open one. The two others are thermoformed for those who want thicker parts.

Building will start in the next few days...

[No.1]

Look very good and in your hands will be masterpiece

[draken35]

Look very good and in your hands will be masterpiece

I hope that

[Second Air Force]

This is a great looking kit, and gives an idea of how advanced the art of "short-run" kits has come!! Compare these trees of parts to that old Bf 109B I'm working on on the other thread......

Looking forward to your build. Our hangar is not too far from where one of these little machines is parked and we see the Magister every so often, sitting on the grass in it's NMF finish.

[Tweety]