The Ouragan was operated by France Armee de'l 'Air, including the Patrouille de France aerobatic team. In France replacement began beginning sixties with the Mystere as technology progress went fast. 

Also India, Israel used the type. The Israeli's used it in both the Suez Crisis and the Six-Day War for close support. They were not used as fighters against the more manoeuvrable MiG-15's. Later on, some 18 ex- IAF refurbished aircraft were sold to El Salvador in 1973-1978. 
 

 

It was not bad at all, the fit was I remember reasonably good. The cockpit was set closed. It was finished in an Israeli camouflage scheme with my at that time Badger 150 airbrush. I think I used the famous Humbrol Authentic IAF enamel paints for the colours for the blue'ish-green, light earth and light pale blue undersides.
The Heller kit decals have the Suez crisis yellow-black recognition stripes. The decals were I think fine! 

A nice little IAF Ouragan is in the 1/72 model collection. Note the hand painted number on the tail and nose. I liked that better than the kit decals. I also drooped and slightly raised the ailerons on this kit.

A nice IAF model is now in the collection.  

  ISRAEL   

   

[ area: 21,000 sq.km | population: 9,7 million | capital: Jerusalem | GDP 55,000 USD nominal ]

Under the British Mandate (1920–1948), the whole region was known as 'Palestine'. Upon the declared independence in 1948, the country formally adopted the name 'State of Israel'. May 1948 a war emerged with the Arab neighbours after the declaration of independence. Smuggled armed aircraft were used because of an arms embargo like Spifires, Mosquitos and others like Dragon and Rapide and Czech S-199 (me-109). For the air force "Heyl Ha' Avir" the Meteor jet arrived in 1953 and jets from France like Dassault Ouragan followed by Mystere in 1955. During the 1956 Sinai campaign, the whole Sinai desert up to the Suez Canal was occupied. Fouga Magister jets arrived and from 1963 til 1966 some 72 Mirage III CJ which played an important role in the 1967 Six Days war that also saw the occupation of the Golan Heights and West Bank. A new arms embargo was raised, including one from the regular supplier France. Support from the USA was sought and over 200 A-4 Skyhawks and over 200 F-4E Phantoms were delivered. Transports were DC-3, C-97, C-130 and B707. Helicopters were types like the Frelon, Alouettes and Bells.  

The Israeli Aircraft Industry (IAI) started to develop jets in secrecy. The Kfir was based on a copy of the Mirage III and the Nesher based on the Mirage V. The Yom Kuppur War on October 1973 a new big war emerged but Israel was capable of to hold. The IAI Kfir made its first flight in 1973 and from 1976 came into service with over 200 deliveries and some 50 Neshers. The Israel air force grew and grew and was modernized with new jets like from end 1976 the F-15I and F-16. The Lockheed F-35I is now being introduced. 

Decals are in this kit for 2 markings:
- French Armee de l 'Air  EC 2/4 "la Fayette" with Indian head 
- Israeli Air Force no 113 squadron camouflaged aircraft with shark mouth

The decals are fine of this kit but the "blue is too bright and so inaccurate as compared to old ones seen at the right of a MODELDECAL roundels sheet seen below. 

The problem a bit here is that this Valom kit is "short run" and turned out to require quite some dry fitting, sanding and putty. It is detailed but requires some some skils to get a good result.

The cockit tub required some work. There is a etched metal fret for the instrument panel in the kit with an instrument "film negative" (a plastic panel is also on the sprues). Side wall detail is nice as well. The interior of the cockpit was painted very dark grey. 

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The resin seat cries for some extra detail with a harness etc. (when removing its base, use a face mask and plenty of water!). But the seat is pretty good in shape. 

After main assembly, putty was required and sanding is some areas. As seen here, quite some clamps were required. The wing was set on and some further sanding and putty needed. 

The wheel bays have nice detail. 

The model was made in a French Armee de l'Air metal finish with the tip tanks and kit decals. (There are also an other wing tip parts when the tanks are not fitted found on the sprues). 

ALCLAD II Gloss aluminium ALC-105 was to be used as main finish and this means absolute scratch free surfaces are needed. So polishing was done and after that the model got a base black undercoat, followed by a couple of Johnson Future/Pledge gloss coats. These are the undercoats for the ALCLAD II finish on top.

I replaced the kit's rudder decals with some decals from the spares box to get the "correct blue". The roundels were retrieved of the better MODELDECALS roundel sheet.

After decalling, the details were added like the undercarriage as per instructions. Note the etched metal anti-torque brace. The legs have a metal colour. The lower aft air brakes were set "open", closed they have a bad fit. 
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The red detail on the tips tanks were hand painted, supplemented with the red decals. The canopy was set open and the "armament unguided rockets" set under the wing.  The result is a nice Ouragan in the model collection. I think the rivets are fine enough and not overdone.

  
Ouragan of the French Armee de l 'Air  EC 2/4 "la Fayette"
   

  Ouragan of EC 2/4 "la Fayette"