Classic FROG 1/72 Mirage III Review
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Review of 1975 FROG Mirage IIE/O 1/72 kit, kindly loaned by Chris Doney of Bridgwater in Somerset, England.
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Interesting kit. Regarding the Australian decals; they’re 3SQN’s crest in the centre of the tail’s triangles. Butterworth is in Malaysia, near Penang Island. Obviously, 3 SQN rotated in and out of Butterworth periodically since the Malayan Emergency, then back to Williamtown in Australia. When the Australian Mirage IIIO’s were initially silver with red around the intakes, they had red airbrakes. They were later panted camouflage green/grey with normal body coloured airbrakes, They were grey all over at the end of their life. I was crawling all around an Australian Mirage today, at a museum at Williamtown.
I didn't know that! Many thanks John! 👍🏻☺️
Nice Frog Mirage and review.....Yeah I'm Malaysian, back then when I'm a teenager in 70s I saw few of them flypast Kuala Lumpur city toward south. Cor..I can attest it, what a awesome noise and sight.
Frog were a bit of an enigma. Many of the moulds were old and quite poor but some of the later ones were really good kits. For some reason, possible the unusual subjects, they were fun but they were also quite hard to find. I used to get them mail order in the 70's
Yes, I am told this was one of the last ones produced, explains the better quality. 👍🏻
Good review of an interesting plane. FROG always seemed to make unusual and interesting aircraft not available from other manufactures. I built quite a few in the way back. Thanks as always.
Yes they did. A lot of FAA types. I loved the Fairey Barracuda.
Anyone who owns this many identical lamps is getting a subscription from me.
Look forward to watching more of your stuff
My first kit back in 1978. I've got a copy of it, which I intend to be my grand finale last build.
You are not leaving us I trust, Robert? 😨
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab Buliding my stash is going to take until I'm nearly 60, so not just yet.
Hi Pete ....good that you are covering Frog....got this in the stash ...nice moulding good decals cockpit empty 70s job
as a kid in the 70´s i didn´t had one, but the Matchbox. Now i have both, but on assembly line
Good evening Peter and thanks for your video. I have many Frog 's modelkits in my stash. Always a good model to build.
By the mid 1970s FROG was part of Rovex - which also owned Hornby and Tri-Ang. It was the collpase of the Rovex group which brought FROG down. I don't think the sale of FROG kits was declining in the mid 1970s - it was just the general economic conditions prevailing at the time (high inflation, rocketing oil prices etc )and the particular circumstances surrounding Rovex that brought the whole edifice down.
Free flying rubber band powered models was their first style of model kits.. Hence the name "Frog".
Hi Peter, sorry I missed it live but watching on the replay. Excellent video.
Hi Peter a good vlog again 👏 I’ve never built a mirage, looking at this kit 🤷🏻♂️ ii will be ! Keep them coming welcome 👍👏👏👏🏴🏴
Thanks Jeffrey, just AVOID the Eduard ones! 👍🏻
Thanks Peter I shall 👍
I had 3 Frog kits, not very easy to come by, the Bf109F, the Bristol Beaufort, and the Spitfire Mk XIV and Flying Bomb
Not sure if those Aussie roundels have kangaroos or dinosaurs on them. lol I remember Revell had some shockers on their F-111 kit of the same vintage too. As an Australian, I remember that it wasn't until the eighties with Roo Decals that we finally got some third party decals from an Australian manufacturer where the roundels actually looked right. More recently I picked up a Hobby Boss F-18 kit with Australian markings and while they got the kangaroo ok, they had them facing the wrong way on one side of the aircraft. One quick tip for modellers is the kangaroo always has his nose facing foward, pointing towards the nose of the aircraft.
Hi, Peter, that was a fantastic review. As you say Matchbox missed a trick not fitting underwing tanks and weapons. I look forward to your next review Happy modelling
I don't think they diserve the bad fit rep , pretty impressed with the frog kits i have.
I think the later stuff seems great but the earlier kits were dire.
Nice boxart. Epoca !! Frog a great trademark of my youth
Some of their final kits were quite nice - basic but nice. Unfortunately, when their moulds went to Russia in the mid 1970s, the kits produced were nothing like as good a quality.
Actually, the markings on that Meteor are Dutch, not Czech
Sorry I missed this Peter - wow this is a really obscure kit/label for us in the US. Very enjoyable presentation. Cheers
That was one of the very last of the Frog kits to be released before Frog folded...I had one in the stash at one time.
Revell also had a nice one in 1/72 at one time but I think it was a Mirage IIIE.
And our old friends at MB had one.
And Airfix.
It's from 1975
Interesting review Peter, Frog don't get much of a mention these days. To be truthful I never had much time for Frog aircraft, they always seemed a bit 'clunky' if you know what I mean. In the depths of my loft, I have a Frog Brittania and a Victor . I can't comment on the quality, I haven't seen them in thirty odd years! There should also be a few 1;32 military kits, which I think Frog leased from Renwal. Looking forward to your future reviews. Regards, Mike.
Missed the live chat but enjoyed watching later... Received back, thanks Peter 👍
Does anybody remember the French TV series the Aeronauts from the late sixties of two French pilots you got into adventure’s as a part of a Mirage Squadron ?
Yes indeed...we talked about it in Live Chat. Great series.👍🏻
Great review ❤
...ВООООТТТТТ, с подобного уровняяя я наачинал свое моделированиееее............
Never seen a FROG model. All i saw was the balsa type elastic band models.
As a kid i might have bought simply for the stand. Mounted on a blue wall would be a neat display option.
I was tempted once to make half the model and then glue it to a mirror, 2 models in one.
Hi Pete , Is it very like Matchbox , or are matchbox very like Frog? Who did that type a style first?
FROG definitely were first. Matchbox only started producing plastic kits in 1972.
Prior to that they were chiefly best known for their small size diecast cars.
Is Peter in danger of becoming a Frog Man?
Hmmm...🤔 NO. (Lol!😆)
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab I thought not. HaHa!
Flash is easy to deal with, sink marks/depressions are not. Contents need more examination!
@@rogerallum5633 ...Maybe you should do the reviews yourself?
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab 1) i've not kissef the Blarney stone 2) Techno phobe. You can read that as a compliment if you wish!
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....и постоянно и всегдааа пыталсяя дооработать ту или инную деталь,опираясь на какие-то фото и скромные чертежиии....