Well all done, all out of the box apart from the Tamiya tape harness and a bit of wiring behind the RIOs panel.
The full build is <<here>>
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Vellejo paints, Promodellers dark wash.
Thanks for looking and happy modeling [#toast]
Very nicely done Phil! Did you mask the camo, and if so how did you do it? Excellent work! [tup]
Hi Frank,
All the camo is free hand apart from the wing tanks, there masked with Tamiya tape.
…OUT-Freakin’-STANDING!..Top Notch work here…5 stars and 2 thumbs up…
WSO’S !! We had WSO’S !!! None of that Navy rio junk. I clear my nose in thier general direction.[xx(][:D]
Couple of quick nitpiks, the entire slotted leading edge of the horizontal stab should be titanium and the number on the nose door is on upside down. Looks like a nice build otherwise. I spent some time on that very airframe at Ramstein.
Excellent work Phil. Phabulous Phantom [tup].
Regards, Rick
Outstanding job. You should be very proud of this build.
Superb!
Sorry, sorry WSO[banghead] titanium yep , my bad.
But thanks for all you comments.[#toast]
Gorgeous!
Beautiful Phantom there, Phil! The finish and panel line work is brilliant.
Lovely build, lovely bird.
Great work on the Phantom. You should add the gun purge scoop though. The E model gun purge scoop was always open on the ground when engines were not running.
Outstanding work.
Roy
That Phantom looks amazing - SEA camo is easily my favourite scheme.
Can i ask what airbrush you use? I’m extremely impressed with the nice demarcation lines.
cml
I cannot add to these great kudos! Nice!
…just a question born of ignorance about non-Navy/Marine F-4s…Did all Phantoms serve with an arrestor hook? Just a general question for anyone.
Nam
Now THAT is definately a model that deserves the “Phabulous Phantom” moniker. Outstanding work.
to namrednef, yes, all F-4 Phantoms had the tail hook. Non-carrier capable F-4s used them for emergency arrestor cable engagements and such crazyness as “Pardo’s Push”. Look that one up on the internet. It is an interesting story.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
Hi, I use a Harder & Steenbeck evoluion with 0.4 needle for camo work with Vallejo model air acrylic paints and the a wash of Promodellers weathering wash all over the model.
Hope that helps
Phil
Phil,
That’s a really impressive build. The weathering is really nice, particularly on the underside. The way you did the bare metal surfaces is nice too.
Chris
Thanks Phil,
At the moment, i just use a Paasche H (single action), which can’t get too fine. In Australia, i haven’t seen/heard of Harder & Steenbeck, in fact, i’ve never seen our stores stock anything other than Paasche and Badger. So i guess i’m limited to those two brands.
Hope to see more of your fine works in the future on this site.
cml