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2. Here we have a close up of the canopy and
ejection seats after painting but before assembly. Other items in this
photo include airbrakes and other panels. |
3. Here we see the open avionics panel
before the air intake splitter was fitted. |
4. Ever wondered what the cockpit looked
like before the ejection seats were fitted? |
5.
A close up of those ejection seats after
painting. |
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6. These photo's show the
Hasegawa 1/48th Scale F-4E Phantom II that I built around November,
December and January 2002/2003. The model is complete in kit decals of
the Wing Commander's Aircraft 110th TFS 131st TFW Missouri Air National
Guard. |
7. A view of the F-4E as
viewed from Spy Satellite. The kit was airbrushed in Xtracolour
paints and the natural metal areas of the tail are from Bare Metal.
Weathering is with oil pastels dust and black acrylic. |
8. A Verlinden "F-4E
Phantom Super Detail Set" was used for the cockpit, gun, radar and
avionics bay. The ladder is from the kit although it was thinned down
with files and scalpel before painting to give it a better scale
appearance. This aircraft scored a "kill" against a MiG during
the Vietnam war - hence the single Soviet star on the air intake
splitter plate. |
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A close-up of the tail
showing the bare metal and weathering off to effect. |
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10. The ejection seats were
resin items supplied by Verlinden. |
11. The instrument panels are
straight from the kit with a little dry brushing. Canopy sills and rails
came from Verlinden but the fit of these parts was a little poor. |
12. A view of the open avionics area on the
aircraft's starboard side. These was worked in with reference to Verlinden's
own 'Lock On' book covering the F-4E although the Verlinden photo's didn't agree with their own resin parts. |
13. The worst Verlinden-sin for this kit was
the inaccurate photo-etched parts for the gun bay section. The fuselage
plate was the wrong length whilst the trough detail parts were too big.
The radar itself was over-scale by about 50% - a massive degree of error
on a kit this size!! |
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14. Despite the errors by Verlinden it was
possible to slice the Radar set up into smaller parts and glue it back
together to make it small enough to match the photo's. After the wiring
was added painted, washed and dry-brushed the final effect is excellent. |
15. This photo was taken in
December 2004 and shows the model mounted on its display Base with Name
Plate. Some matching 1/48th scale Ground Equipment will be added to this
to make a diorama. |
16. It is nice how this is starting to look
like those Manufacturer's own publicity shots... Maybe. |
17. The Name
Plate. |
