Nice job on the “J”. If you don’t mind a suggestion, the horizontal stab leading edge slots should be natural metal all the way out to the tip, up to the stab skid. Also I noticed on another post you made, you are using the Air Force style wheels. The Navy jets had a different style and they are available as after market resin.
Thanks, but I am an insane builder of of 1/72nd scale kits, of which SB only lists color zoom kits for an F-4J and an F-4B/N, both of which are sold out. I may try the Eduard thing…
Thanks for your advice, You´re wright, those wheels are from the Monogram kit which is an Air Force F4.
I have the original wheels of the ESCI kit that are Navy style. The thing is that I don´t know if they´re wide enough. Here I´m posting a couple of pics, I´ll appreciate your opinion.
About the horizontal stab leading edge slots I know that they are all natural metal all the wat to the tip, but I´ll paint that in another satge, masking that was really difficult.
Model Master metalizers work very well, my experience is that I can apply masking tape (Tamiya, with care) without ruin the metalized paint, but in this case with the metal areas the gral painting is practically finished. With a soft cloth you can buff to a nice result. Give them a try [:D]
You´re F 4F is looking very nice, what brand is it ? Revell Germany? How´s the fit ?
It is actually a Hasegawa kit-I’m sort of addicted to them, I guess. However, at recent prices, I only buy them when on sale. I have had issue with masking lifting off the metalizers at times, but I find sometimes that letting the kit set for a while, (days) makes the metallizer less likely to lift!
Hi all. Haven’t posted for a while. The cockpit is coming along nicely (finally) and halfway through painting it. I will post pics soon.
I need some info. My Revellogram C/D has two open panels on either side of where the centreline pylon will be placed. I believe they are only supposed to be open when the landing gear is down. But I am doing my f-4D in-flight. Can anyone confirm for me that I need to somehow close them? Thanks.
I think you may be talking about the Auxiliary Air Intakes. I believe that they could be open in flight. But someone with more knowledge about it would have to confirm this.
Rich, the package arrived yesterday. It sure was a suprise. All I have to do now is find some drop tanks to put on it and then mask the canopy and shoot on some dull coat.
To answer your question on the Aux Air Doors, they would be closed in flight.
Dom, I also got the T shirt. It came out very nice. Thanks to all that helped with the design.
Yeh. I fell in love with the P80 when I saw a close up shot of one in the movie “The Magnetic Monster”. It just looked so sleek and cool. So what if it was subsonic… lol
That’s great! Honestly, I have never had a kit fight me as hard as that one and I was terrified it would get lost in the mail. I have some drop tanks if you need them. I didn’t realize that I had forgotten about them until after the bird was on it’s way. Did you check the front landing gear door? lol. That inkjet decal film is soooo flimsy. I printed out a sheet with about 20 of that little block of text on it and put three goats of glosscote on it, and it still took me 9 tried before I could get one on with it tearing on the little raised rivet detail on the door. I also hope I got that blue line under the canopy correct. You might want to chop back the tail probe. I wasn’t sure what length it was supposed to be. It’s metal so make sure to wear goggles when you cut it. We had hoped to have it ready by the Air Force Museum visit, but I just didn’t have time. Then afterwards I had to paint in little bits because our power kept going out…lol
