1/32 F-4F Phantom II

A GB on another site has given me a chance to crack out this kit, its huge going to be 60cm long! The kit has some nice detailing in the cockpit area, and is looking promising Have made a start to the cockpit but modelling has been limited over the past weeks due to AS Level mock-exams and a Physics AS module that I am sitting on Friday.

So far have finished the cockpit tub, bang seats and the instrument panels, pictures below of the tub and seats, none of the instrument panels as yet.





Going to be finished as a Dissimilar Air Combat Luftwaffe aircraft, so Norm 72 camo with red ailerons, tail plane and rudder. Quite fitting really seeing as the Phantom leaves Luftwaffe service this June

Anyway more modelling once exams are finished,

Nick

Nick,

Love the seats, but be warned. The Revell kit has a hidden flaw, when the seats are fitted they only just sit above the sills of the canopy, looking like someone has pulled the handle on an office chair in other words. You may want to put a bit of packing in the tubs to raise up the seats a bit else the Pilot and GiB won't see jack!

HtH's

Adam

Thanks very much for the heads up about the seats

With exams out of the way have been able to press forward with the Phantom, I have fitted the cockpit tub within the front fuselage halves and fitted the under side which also holds the front wheel well. Using a mixture of super glue and filler have filled in the gap between the two sections. Finally, I have painted the the HUD area gloss black.







Hopefully will get the internal parts of the engines made and painted up in metallic paints.

Always good to see a Phantom getting built and it looks like you're making a good start with this one. Although the Norm 81 camouflage scheme would look better imo probably the best scheme to have been applied to any Phantom.

You'll be glad to know Scott that my Dad is digging out the photos because he thinks that the Phantom's he saw were Norm 81 camo with red rudder and tail planes! So hopefully you'll be seeing a Luftwaffe Phantom in Norm 81 - only problem now is I can't find any Norm 81 decals.

Finally pushed on with this one, getting the model pretty much up to a stage ready for painting, I only have the outer wing sections to add and a few larger external detail parts. So since last update I have, made up the turbines for the inside of the model, sprayed metallic and just dirtied up a bit, to be honest they wont really be seen. With the turbines completed, I have joined the two fuselage halves then added the tail planes and the front section, which has also gained the nose cone.

The paint scheme is being changed from a Norm 72 airframe to a Norm 81 aircraft, after my Dad checked his shots from the 80's. The airframe will still be a Dissimalar Air Combat Training aircraft with high visibility rudder, tail planes, wing tips and front nose gear, much like this shot.
Only problem now is sourcing 1/32nd decals for Norm 81 camo.

Anyway on with the pictures;
Turbines


Front fuselage and nose


Front fuselage seam with main fuselage (at far right of photo), and cockpit


And two pictures showing the progress so far


The two rear wheel bays have been sprayed white and detailed, but are covered ready for the main painting of the model


For now have got the sub assemblies to start such as the armaments, air intakes and landing gears