Moving on to another Phantom, this time the Wild Weasel from Hasegawa. The fit and detail of this old kit is phenomenal. Here are my usual goodies out of the bag:
Aires cockpit/Exhaust, Master Pitot tubes, Harm missle decals form Two Bobs, and an old set of Superscale decals. I wanna go with a 4 Harm load, with a centerline tank and 2 aft mounted sparrows. I’ll use the 2 Harms from my Hasegawa weapons set, but will need 2 more, probably from Eduard’s Brassin range.
…Thinking of doing “night Stalker”:
First painted up the intakes gloss white before gluing them on. Dont’ forget to plug gaps on the back side of Hasegawa’s intakes, as they will show otherwise:
Cut out the ailerons to pose them drooped a bit:
The wing halves fit perfectly together. I then ground away to fit the cockpit and primed and painted the base color:
Then masked off a few panels and airbrushed black:
I then moved on to more assembly. The nose halves were fitted first to the fuselage halves for a near perfect alignment:
I cleaned up the True Details resin pylons, as they are better than the kit ones, and I’ll need different outboads to mount the Harms to anyway, instead of the outboard fuel tanks:
Nose wheel bay nees a bit of grinding off the roof:
…MMMMmm, sort of, definately not pumping out new decal sheets like they used too. I know he’s traveling internationally so I think the website is defunct.
The Two Bobs website still works, they have some new stuff on there and I just ordered stuff from them today. If you haven’t used them before they have top notch decals.
Nathan, can’t wait to see how this Phantom turns out after your previous masterpiece.
You mean the shoulder straps? Depends, I modeled mine in the stowed position. Tied up waiting for the pilot to get in. That way, they aren’t left hanging and the pilot can buckle in real quick.
