Dassault Rafale C Hobby Boss

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February 9, 2016
doing some mess inside the plane with plastic card, putty and epoxi
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February 9, 2016
I built this shape inside to simulate the intakes and block the view from outside to inside the plane
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February 9, 2016
i still have to model the uper part to close completly the view, but you guys got the idea.... walls in the right intake have been thinned down
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February 9, 2016
I'm looking to reproduce this "ramp" efect that exists in the real one, I like deep intakes in my models, note that the compressor blades of the engine are not visible, also I'm thinning down the walls to look more like this, the kit ones are quite thick!
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February 20, 2016
Various bits and pieces primed with Mr. Surfacer 1000, thinned with tamiya lacquer, interior parts are primed in AK interactive black primer
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February 20, 2016
Mr Surfacer give a very nice satin finish, but is extremely smelly, Ak interactive primer isn't very strong, it chips and scratch easily, I use for the interior only, I have faced some pealing off the final paint when I tryed to mask for postshading, T_T
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February 21, 2016
Painted with tamiya X-1 gloss black
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February 21, 2016
I want to make a good base for the white color
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February 21, 2016
Also this one will have one shine NMF warhead, I´m not very happy with this "texture" in the paint, it shouldn´t be there... :-/
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February 27, 2016
The intake dummy is complete ^_^
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February 27, 2016
That's the effect I've been looking for! the "ramp" solved the see trough problem nicely.
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February 27, 2016
I have to thin down the walls in this little intakes .
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February 27, 2016
Done! for this scale, as much as you can thin down the things the better it looks, it will never be thin enough...
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February 27, 2016
Various parts painted today, with Vallejo and Revell acrylics
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February 27, 2016
Wash on the gear well, I realised too late that I painted the seat wrong, the french ejection seat does not have this green color, it was supposed to be black, but there will be a pilot over it so I will not change.
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February 27, 2016
The kit have nice details in the cockpit, but to use the provided decals you have to sand them down, so I decided to cut minutes bits and place it in key points, than I handpainted the rest.
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February 27, 2016
I love this little things, once closed in the plane, most of it is not going to be seen again T_T
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February 28, 2016
I couldn't resist to dryfit alltogether to see how it is going to look like, I still have to finish this tomcat... T_T
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February 28, 2016
I will have to be careful wen closin this plane, the gap behind the intake will require some "magic"
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February 28, 2016
not much of the cockpit detail or the instrument panel will be visible, specialy because I will use one figure inside, as I have no seatbelts for this one. at least the canopy is very clear, very little distortion, I´m not sure if I have to tint it....
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February 28, 2016
panel lines and rivets look a bit overdone for this scale, but I will not change it
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March 25, 2016
doing this micrometric masking on such small wheels had burned my eyes today, but I had to do it anyway for the sake of the result....
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March 25, 2016
I just love the efect that this technic result! ready for wash and small touch ups....
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March 25, 2016
carefuly reproducing the rivets in the exhaust
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March 25, 2016
all primed and ready to go, the center pilon was modified based on some reference pictures to hold the ASMPA
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March 25, 2016
for the primer I am using Mr. Surfacer 1000 thinned with tamiya lacquer thinner, this provide to me the best results, very strong primer! I have modifyed the outher wing pylons (seems to be a popular modification among rafale modelers)
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April 10, 2016
After some break I did some more work in the Rafale, simple pre shading with tamiya xf-17
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April 10, 2016
Main collor is done witthe closest match that I could find in my stash: model air 71.050 from Vallejo
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April 10, 2016
The tactical nuclear missile are ready, painted and decaled.
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April 10, 2016
Decals for this plane are going to be from aftermarket, Syhart .
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April 20, 2016
Decaling on the way! I'm going to be using aftermarket from company syhart ones since the kit ones are not accurate and is lacking many stencils, the point is the stencils are very low visibility being very close to airplane's color.
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April 20, 2016
I have been trough many things in personal life that are slowing my progress, but I'll try to finish as good as l can.
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April 21, 2016
The decaling continues, I did the scalp missile but I believe that I'm not going to use it, there are tons and tons of microscopic stencils in this Syhart set, and I'm willing to use them all!
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June 5, 2016
Tamiya panelline wash on, all nice and dirty!
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June 19, 2016
I have done some wiring and scratch build in the gear legs, here I have just aplyed wash
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June 19, 2016
the efect of the landing lights are very nice, I like it a lot!
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June 19, 2016
all in position, landing gears are done!
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June 19, 2016
I brush painted it using Vallejo metalizers dark aluminium and dull aluminium
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June 19, 2016
the instructions of this model tell me that I have to assemble the main gear struts BEFORE glue the wheel well in place, later I realized why, in the way it was designed you can´t put the struts for the outside... so I had to operate some modifications..
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June 19, 2016
after the surgery, a lot of test fitting, I used superglue and now it is correct, aligned and ready to go, nice wen you see your baby on its own legs for the first time! ^_^ (behind is my new project, the dragon Hellcat, will be adding it here soon)
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June 19, 2016
very happy with the way it is turning out!
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June 19, 2016
Some more steps to go: semigloss varnish, some pigments, mask and paint the walkways, more decals to go on the air to air missiles, some more details to brush paint here and there, before call this one done, we are getting there!
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June 25, 2016
here I sharped up one piece of sprue and putted under the nose to see if I can fix something that was bothering me a lot! the rounded shape of the noose
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June 26, 2016
and that´s how it looks withoud the point, wich one is better?
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June 26, 2016
that´s one sample of the real one, and that´s how it is supposed to look
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June 25, 2016
first I putted the bit of sprue in the dreemel and start to turn it over a File
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June 25, 2016
using a drill bit, I turned the piece of sprue onto it to create one hole
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June 25, 2016
that´s it
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June 25, 2016
here I cutted the bit off one pin to place it in that hole and have one strong point
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June 25, 2016
with a lot of superglue around, after all was dried I start to spin it over some finer sand stick
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June 25, 2016
here are my options: I can either use the metalic point one or the pure plastic
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June 25, 2016
here the noose was cutted and the parts was glued together, than I used mr surfacer 1000 all around, I think that will fix the shape problem and make it looks pointier as a proper French noose ^_^
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June 25, 2016
here I will use the masks on the decal package to create the anti slip patches over the paint, here we can see also the result of our plastic surgery in the noose! very happy with that! looks like the reference pictures now!
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June 25, 2016
masks in place, they don´t aline 100% with panel lines but it is not very visible, it is just one touch lighter and very matt surface so I will not bother myself changing it
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June 25, 2016
by using tamiya flat coat XF-86 I created the efect that is only visible catching the light, just like the real one!
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June 25, 2016
Load out all done
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June 26, 2016
here a better view from the pointier noose, canopy masks removed; I bought this set of sensor lenses efect that was designed for gundam 1/144 , gess what...
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June 26, 2016
it just fitted perfectly using the pre-cutted smaller one! how cool is that? now I cutted off the point of the refueling probe, it was bothering me by the lack of definition, I'm waiting now the Mr. Postman to bring me the MasterModel replacement for it.
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November 3, 2016
and that´s how it ends... as I was preparing to attend to one modelers meeting, I prepared the display carefully and left over the bed for me to take later, after deliver my son to school, I returned to my building to see my wife bringing the model....
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November 3, 2016
She gave the case to my daughter 8 year olf to hold and than when going downstair, she droped the box, and my models fell in between the stairs, from more than 3 meters high... that´s the result... my heart is broken, I´m thinking in leave the hobby...
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November 4, 2016
Fixing the disaster, landings are drying
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November 4, 2016
Shaping the replacement for the noose cone
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November 20, 2016
The repared nose after glue the replacement point I brushed Mr. Surfacer and carefully sanded it paying attention to not damage the edge
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November 20, 2016
I masked all and it's ready for priming with diluted Mr.Surfacer
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November 20, 2016
And after redoing the wash and glue the hanging stuff, it's back in one piece, not without some scars but I'm glad I didn't gave up, the most complicated was the nose and the landing gear, fortunately the canopy survived without a scratch, watta relief!
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May 21, 2017
continuing with the series: Taken decent pictures of my models, now it´s time for the Rafalle, with was finished, broked and restored
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May 21, 2017
As the fit of the canopy was good enough, I just added a bit of plasticard to the tabs to fill some gap and left that unglued (I used blue tac to hold in place during the panting stage) interestingly I can position it opened that the tabs hold, love it!
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May 21, 2017
I also haven´t glued the canards so I can also position it as I want.
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May 21, 2017
the sensor sticker shine in diferent colors as the angle change.
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May 21, 2017
the sensor lens here looks orange, the plastic probe was replaced by Master Model metal one
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May 21, 2017
landing gears and payload
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May 21, 2017
detail of the landing gear in the front, I´m happy that I didn´t gave up on the pinty edge of the cone.
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May 21, 2017
Another view of the underside, it is hard to detect but getting close is possible to see loads and loads of tinny low viz decals and stencils all over the place
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May 21, 2017
front view of the baby, the glass landing lights showing good here
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May 21, 2017
underside
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May 21, 2017
tires showing the fake tread masked and painted, I'm very happy with the air intake solution for the see trough, it realy works!
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May 21, 2017
front view, after the rebuild the alignment looks not too bad, the canards are movable, here one is straight and the other a bit twisted
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May 21, 2017
refueling probe from master model is one exelent detail to add, canopy from Hobby bos is exelent,
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May 21, 2017
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May 21, 2017
By trying to frame the details in the cockpit area for you guys I located one missing fur from my cat on the pilot... :-/
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May 21, 2017
another view from my cat´s fur, with the pilot behind!
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May 21, 2017
Showing some dirty in places
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May 21, 2017
if it was today, I would have tryied to make the navigation lights out of transparent plastic, resin or epoxi... they don't look nice painted, it's the weak point of the model in my opinion.
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May 21, 2017
the exhaust original from the kit, looks ok, I haven't found any replacement aftermarket for it
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May 21, 2017
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May 21, 2017
And that´s the end, I hope you've enjoyed!

Cesar Muniz
Hey Villiere, that makes me sad, now I can't change since I already scratch built the pylon for that and it is glued and painted, I gess I will take it as one "wat iff" project, if the Rafale M can carry that so it is not so impossible for the C version to carry them as well... Thanks for the info by the way!

20 April 2016, 22:22

Stefan Schacht
nice model so far, count me i. Cheers Stefan

21 April 2016, 10:35

Mike Grant
Nice work so far Cesar 👍

21 April 2016, 12:20

VILLIERE Julien
one other detail, the extrem up antena TELEMIR is only présent in Rafale M

22 April 2016, 20:38

Cesar Muniz
I gess that´s the price you pay for modeling from hobby boss Villiere, this kit have many versions problems and inaccuracies, by comparing the decals from the kit and the syhart you can see it, you realy have to know deeply your subject and be willing of doing lots of modifications, I am not expert in Rafale but I am trying to correct what I can, you think that it is only sand off the thing in the top of the ruder and it will be correct?

22 April 2016, 22:00

VILLIERE Julien
yes, [img1]

23 April 2016, 09:28

Cesar Muniz
Thanks for the tip Villiere, I did this modification and reesprayed the area, I never liked the look of this detail anyway, it is very nice to have a clean tip on the tail, looks much better, I am finishing the decaling and I will post some update pictures.

26 April 2016, 21:37

Christian Bruer
Very nice work Cesar 👍

21 June 2016, 17:29

Patrick Hagelstein
Oh Cesar!... What a disaster!

4 November 2016, 09:34

Jean Pierre CULIS-FERY
So bad... I think you have to conserve these model on photograph for a while. I think fixing them can be possible without to much difficulties, but with motivation.

4 November 2016, 13:15

Ekki
What a shame! However, as we all know accidents, and even modelling catastrophes, can and will happen. Don't be too disheartened and either try to fix it, which I also think is possible, or start on a new kit. Either way, good luck!

4 November 2016, 17:32

Cesar Muniz
Thanks guys! I already started the repairs, some scars will remain but I'll put it back on one piece, landings are glued and I have done one replacement for the noose cone.

4 November 2016, 21:03

Jean Pierre CULIS-FERY
Nice to read that!

4 November 2016, 21:55

Soeren R.
Really nice work!

21 November 2016, 10:29

Spanjaard
nice work. i am happy the restoration is going well.

26 November 2016, 11:42

John Thomas
Nice work

26 November 2016, 13:45

Aris Grey
Very nice and great intakes!

27 November 2016, 12:23

Ekki
Brilliant restoration work. Well done!

27 November 2016, 14:20

Marcel Chmura
Curious of your work, looks fantastic nice Job.

10 January 2017, 16:08

Aris Grey
Never seen anything like that. Inspirational build , great work! The nuclear weapon is after market? Now i noticed that rafale has stealthy characteristics.

25 May 2017, 22:57

Soeren R.
Outstanding work mate!

25 May 2017, 23:03