Hi all:
My name is Carlos and I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I´m new in the forum, just signed up. I´m an F4 fanatic and I would like to join this group. Am I in time yet ? [:P]
I´m currently building an F4J in 1/48.
Best regards from Buenos Aires [t$t]
Certainly, Carlos! As many as you like, you have nearly five months left – just let me know what you’d like to build (finish your -J here, and then build another as well?!) and I’ll add you to page 1.
Cheers, Mike/TB379
Hello Mike:
Thank you very much. I´ll be glad to participate in the group. [:)]
Right now I´m building an F 4J en 1/48 scale ESCI brand. When finished it will represent an F 4J of VMFA 232 Red Devils. I started this kit in february, now it´s in the overall painting stage.
I have pictures of all the building process and I´ll post them here.
When finished this one I´ll start with an F 4F Revell brand in 1/72 and I believe that it will be finished in a couple of months. [:P]
Regards
Carlos
Hi all:
I´ve been loking in the Group Build and really saw fantastic and very well done works. Congratulations to all the participants [:D[
As I said I´m building an F 4J in 1/48 from ESCI. The kit is old but is a good one. It has nice engraved panel lines. This one is the Bicentenial kit, so I added the parts that didn´t come with the kit (fuel tanks, pylons, Sparrows and Sidewinders), these parts came from an abandoned Monogram kit. I also replaced the wheels with the more wider from the Monogram kit.
I used Mr. Surfacer 1200 for priming and the paints are Humbrol Enamels (129 - 130 - 85)
Here are pictures of the building, today I´m painting the nose.
Box:
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Declas from Microscale:
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In the acrylic box:
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Preshading:
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Painted udersides.
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Upper surfaces in painting process.
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And that´s all up to now.
Tomorrow I´ll post more pics of the painted nose (black radome).
Regards.
Carlos
26Carlos:
Had a little practice with an airbrush pal?
I’m sending some stuff over for you to paint…lol…
Hi Bockscar.
[:D][:D][:D]
The shipping will be a little expensive ! [t$t]
Hi fellows.
I was able to make a little more today. Placed the antena on the underside of the radome (scartcbuild) and started with the paint of the nose.
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Tonight is raining here and tomorrow will be the same [8-|], that´s ok for my F 4J
Ok, I’ve finally started my Rhino.
Spent most of the afternoon sawing off resin casting blocks, cutting away styrene for the N variant and thinning out and modifying the cockpit area to fit in the resin office.
Cheers
Carlos – that Esci bird looks GREAT! The recessed detail will accent a treat and your airbrush work is top notch, the preshading worked very well. I’ll have to look out for one of these old kits, maybe transplant a Hasegawa cockpit if using an Aries set for a Has -J, and give it this sort of treatment. Am adding you to p1 at this time.
Casper – great to see your start!
Cheers, M/TB379
Cracked open my two Hase - Es. One will be 6 Sqn RAAF and the other a What if 77 Sqn bird… I am working on the bang seats right now, as I’m looking at cockpit detailing techniques. Quite basic builds, I hope they build with out too much problems. Pics soon!
Thank you Mike. [:D]
Get one of this ESCI kits, it looks great when finished and it´s not expensive. It takes a bit of extra work, specially on the undersides but is worth the effort.
Next week I´ll be starting with the F 4F Revell in 1/72
Regards
Carlos
Greetings Everyone!
It has been a few weeks since I last posted anything. My step son got married last weekend so there was a lot going on that kept me away.
It was very nice to see Berny posting messages again. What a great guy!
During my absence I discovered that I had purchased double of a few kit accessories by mistake. So I decided it was time to start putting together a spreadsheet that showed all of my kits along with any accessories that I have. This took quite a while. My house is not very big so finding places to keep my collection of kits and accessories is a little spread out. That makes it like an Easter Egg hunt trying to find everything that I have and then inventorying it. But I believe that I have found everything.
After entering the data into the spreadsheet, I decided to also add things that I still needed. I have not finished doing that yet, but I am close. This will make it a lot easier to know without searching what I have and do not have.
And with all that, I have gotten back to working on my Phantom. Tonight I used Future to mate the film with the dials of the rear cockpit’s front instrument panel to the photo-etch that I had painted. I sandwiched the two pieces inbetween two glazing spreaders and placed weight on top. The material of the glazing spreaders should keep the Future from bonding to them. If it works as planned, in about 30 minutes I will have the instrument panel ready to attach to the Aires resin piece.
Ken
Hello:
I painted the metalized parts of stabilizaers and aft part of the engines cover (that´s the name ?) The masking was really dificult, I broke the little antena (on the rudder) in the process [:S] I´ll repair it and paint the zone again.
I used Model Master Buffing Metalizaers (Burnt Metal and Stainless Steel).
More tomorrow…
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Regards.
Carlos
I think you mean the fuel dump nozzle. I don’t think one of us has gone without breaking at least one of those off a kit at some point. LOL.
Rich
Hi Rich,
This is by no means a criticism, but just a clarification. On our trip to the museum with Berny, Berny pointed out that everyone seems to get that part wrong. (You were not there the day Berny brought this up.) It is not the fuel dump, but is the fuselage vent for the fuel tanks. The fuel dump nozzels are in the wings.
Ken
Got the parts of the office primed and then a coat of FS36231. I really like the way Aires do their IPs. A clear finely printed film with a PE panel over the top. I always do a thick gloss white coat and then use the paint to glue down the film. The less CA glue on IPs the better as far as I’m concerned.
Cheers
For gosh sakes Carlos, would ya’ bloody smudge something?..lol…[:D]
Hey gang! I’m happy to say that I have actually laid hands, so to speak, on the F-4F the last two nights! It was somewhat minor stuff, like touching up a few seams and then starting some masking on the inside of the canopies where they will appear black.
A quick photo:
Also off topic, I am also continuing on that F-105G and now that I completed the building of the tub, I thought I would post a photo of it along side the melted one. I was rather pleased how it turned out as it is the first time I ever scratched something this complicated.
It’s a bit glossy right now as I wanted a smooth surface for those self-adhesive PE parts to stick to. I guess it’s sort of related to the F-4G though, because I got interested in the Thud as it relates to the Weasels used in SEA.
As to PE parts, I was considering future projects and thought about sprucing up the cockpit of the ‘E’ when I start it someday, but i can only seem to find what I want available only at Eduard’s web site. The sets I would like to have are marked as discontinued and deeply discounted! Have any of you had experience ordering directly from Eduard? I understand it may take a month or two to arrive? And shipping-is it expensive? They also have a set for the RF-4C discounted in case I decide to go for that kit I mentioned earlier.
Oh, and last but not least, 26carlos, those metallic areas look great! I never seem to get the same effect when I use the Testors products. I will say that I usually paint the metal areas last as they can be difficult to mask when you go to paint the other areas. I’ll have to remember the combinations you used for my “F”.
Cheers!
Thanks for clearing that up, I am always happy to learn something new. 
Have you tried Sprue Brothers? I got a lot of good goodies including cockpit PE from them for very little money. I checked and they have an F4E cockpit detail set for $20.49. It is SKU EDU49231 so just search for that SKU in their advanced search. I have used their PE a lot and it’s very good. Their website is at www.spruebrothers.com I wouldn’t wait too long if you like them, stuff on their site sells out fast.
I hope this helps.
Rich