1/48 Revell F-4 Phantom

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This is the first of a series of Phantoms I’m planning on building. I’ll build an F-4 from each manufacturer in 1/48 scale and do a review/ranking. The Revell kit is quite old. My copyright date said 1979. The kit was released as an F-4E and an F-4J. Since the parts for a slatted wing E are in the box, I decided to make mine an F-4S. The kit is pretty basic. Instrument panels are decals and there’s little to no detail in the cockpit or the wheel bays. Since it was released as an E, the nose section is too square, and the air conditioning inlets are squared off at the rear as opposed to rounded on the short nose Phantoms. Overall detail is lacking. You can look in the engine nozzles and see up to the front of the model. Needless to say this will be ranked quite low. With that said, it was still fun to build and brought back a bunch of memories from my childhood. Decals are from Furball. The build was OOB with the exception of Steel Beach intake plugs.

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Nice work in that old clunker! It is not recognizable as the original Revell beast.

The original F-4E that it’s based on dates from 1977 according to Scalemates.

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I know nothing about the kit or the Phantom, but that looks damn good to me. Nicely finished.

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I have one waiting to be done, now I’ll have to push it back further into the stash. Nicely done.

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For a low ranking F-4 kit, it builds up to a nice kit! Now let’s see how it stacks up against F-4’s that cost several times as much?

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Very nice! As an old MDC employee and Phantom lover, I loved it.

By the way, you might consider making intake covers/plugs to prevent the see-through.

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Phabulous Phantom! Awesome job. My favorite jet.

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Beautiful Phantom. [Y]

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Nice job on an old kit.

That kit is actually a scaled-down version of the old Revell 1/32 Phantom, only without the radar or removable engine of the 1/32 version. Later releases of the 1/32 ‘E’ also included tanks and TER’s with bombs.

I’ve got several of both the 1/48 & 1/32 kits in my stash.

Not much specific detail, but fun to build and a great canvas to practice your scratch-building skills.

Thanks for sharing,

Mark