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Bill Gilman (Navy Bird)
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McDonnell Douglas F-4EJ Kai (Revell)

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49 2 November 2011, 02:19
Aghis Barberopoulos
This is very impressive!
2 November 2011, 17:05
Wilfried Bogaerts
The F-4 is a bird that looks stunning whatever paint scheme you apply. An amazing model Bill, simply breathtaking !
I started to count the stencils but gave up ...
2 November 2011, 17:26
Christian Lehmann
Hi Bill, very nice and interesting finish. This will be an eye catcher for sure.
2 November 2011, 17:47
Martin
Hi Bill, that's a might fine F-4
2 November 2011, 17:50
Hornet18
fantastic work Bill!
2 November 2011, 18:23
Holger Kranich
Still cant take my eyes of it!
31 March 2012, 09:53
Acki
Perfect!
31 March 2012, 12:46
Holger Kranich
Btw, i´m working on the M7 again!😢
31 March 2012, 12:48
Burkhard D
Awesome!
31 March 2012, 12:57
Holger Kranich
Absolutaly great decal-job!
31 March 2012, 12:59
Martin
now I understand why Phantom guys are always very calm people - stenciling this thing is an esotheric session 🙂 Looks great!
31 March 2012, 13:48
Bill Gilman
Thanks for the nice comments, mates! Here is the build thread, you can see some of the fun I had with the decals (which weren't designed to fit the Revell kit):

britmodeller.com/for...php?showtopic=77880
31 March 2012, 15:35
Dirk Heyer
Uff,
Sorry Bill! I`ve not seen this post before!
Amazing clean built, fine and smooth painting. It is a masterpiece of craftmansship! The paintsheme is an eyecatcher and as I`m a fan of japanese aircrafts, this one is one of my favorits that you has built!
Thx for sharing
Dirk
17 April 2012, 18:36
Bill Gilman
Thanks! When I first saw a photo of the Phantom painted in that scheme, I couldn't wait until somebody made a decal sheet for it! It's gorgeous. Someone told that this was the first time since WWII that the "rising sun" was painted on a Japanese plane. Anyone know if that's really true? I suspect not, but you never know!
17 April 2012, 23:16
Vitor Costa
Hi Bill great work on this Phantom, like you said the best 1/72 kit around!!

I like it, congratulations.
26 July 2012, 19:44
Augie
Nice one Bill... very nice
26 July 2012, 19:45
Philip De Keyser
Awesome job Bill, looks fantastic, I like it😉
26 July 2012, 21:25
Sherif Sharmy
Absolutely great. It rocked us all
26 July 2012, 22:32
Gerald
Cool, keep it up 🙂
26 July 2012, 23:28
Bill Gilman
Thanks, everyone! Since I took those pictures, the bird has somehow lost the pitot tube on its nose. I'll obviously never find it, so I'll have to scratch build a replacement.

Our local club's annual contest is coming up in September, and I think I may enter this. But then again, we're hosting the IPMS Regional convention in 2013 - maybe I should wait until then. We'll see...
27 July 2012, 13:46
Acki
Carpets eat parts! I know this for sure.
27 July 2012, 14:10
Sherif Sharmy
I have an idea Bill, I always put a large white nylon thing when i am modelling in case i drop something on the floor. White color help u to find anything lost. Anyway, a lovely build.
27 July 2012, 15:51
Bill Gilman
Somehow it lost the pitot tube whilst sitting in the display case. Some pesky Poltergeist, I think. 🙂
27 July 2012, 18:04
Bill Gilman
Actually, it was most likely lost during transportation to a club meeting. It won't take long to fashion a replacement. But I like the nylon idea - not sure how that will work with our iRobot, but... 🙂
27 July 2012, 20:11
Sherif Sharmy
I have wooden floor at home...............no carpets as our weather here is very dusty. You know...............these wooden rectangles.
28 July 2012, 00:19
Luc B
yummie yummie yummie! 👍
30 June 2013, 19:09
Sherif Sharmy
Wow wow wow
6 July 2013, 16:09
Michel Huijghe
Stunning F-4. 🙂
6 July 2013, 18:08
Łukasz Gliński
Great colour scheme 🙂
6 July 2013, 20:13
Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
Well Done!
6 July 2013, 20:47
Christian Kiesel
Sehr schön die Phantom, gefällt mir 🙂
7 July 2013, 11:38
Augie
Unbelievable...!!!!
7 July 2013, 11:45
Maarten Kruizenga
WOW!!!!!!!!!!
7 July 2013, 12:01
Bill Gilman
Thanks everyone! This one just won gold at IPMS Noreastcon in the conversion category. A rather minor conversion (F-4F to F-4EJ Kai) but since it is a change of mark, that's the category where the judges put it.
7 July 2013, 12:49
Eend
Well, i'd say it is a more then well earned award! 🙂
7 July 2013, 14:26
stefan natus
Congratulations,an eye catching model.
7 July 2013, 16:04
Jan Goormans
a stunning model !!!!!!!!
7 July 2013, 18:28
Michel Huijghe
Congratulations with the golden medal. Well diserved.
8 July 2013, 09:24
Dave Flitton
COOL!
8 July 2013, 14:14
Mike Kryza
Absolutly great work - 👍
8 July 2013, 17:22
shahram hassanpour
I love
Phantom am
25 July 2013, 10:57
Clifford Keesler
Beatiful,without a doubt.
26 July 2013, 01:23
Gerald Chiang
Beautiful. A well deserving win.
27 July 2013, 18:40
Glenn
Nice work!
19 September 2013, 05:03
Tammy Jerrett
Nice indeed! love the scheme...👍
19 September 2013, 07:25
Christian Meyerhoff
Great work, great model!
19 September 2013, 19:24
Jose Miguel Rodriguez
Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
19 September 2013, 19:44
Glenn
Looking forward to building mine one day!
20 September 2013, 00:09
Bill Gilman
Thanks everyone for the kind comments! The model was fun to build, and different than the usual stuff.
Glenn, will you be doing the same JASDF 301st TFS 30th anniversary scheme? I hope you like decals! 🙂
20 September 2013, 01:17
Larry E
WoW
20 September 2013, 02:50
Harry Eder
👍 👍 👍
20 September 2013, 06:04
Clifford Keesler
WOW!!!!!!!
21 September 2013, 03:24
Glenn
Yea Bill I will do this one! Oh yea! The Japanese F-4 and F-15 will drive you nuts with all those small decals!!!
21 September 2013, 06:44
Es-haq Khosravi
Excellent job Bill! Fairy and neat!
21 September 2013, 07:43
Es-haq Khosravi
But why haven't you used that Eduard F.O.Ds?
21 September 2013, 07:43
Panagiotis
WOWWWWWWwwooOOO!!!!...nightmare on decal street!
21 September 2013, 07:57
Bill Gilman
Good question! I have the Eduard FOD covers in my stash, and I bought them specifically for this project (since the kit does not have seamless intakes). I think the answer is I forgot all about them! I was just so happy to be done with "nightmare on decal street!" LOL 🙂
21 September 2013, 14:24
Es-haq Khosravi
I see! lol
21 September 2013, 17:00
Ray Seppala
What A great colour scheme Bill! Nicely finished too!
21 September 2013, 22:49
ahmad hekmati
Nice rely
3 November 2014, 21:44
Soheil Aliakbari
Gorgeous. You must be hating decals for a while 🙂
4 November 2014, 07:01
John Thomas
Very cool, nice work
4 November 2014, 13:34
Bill Gilman
I love decals! 🙂
4 November 2014, 17:40
ahmad hekmati
Very detailed work
4 November 2014, 18:16
Steve Wilson
...
Hey! Bill, that's a great build, I love the livery, regardless of Panagiotis's comment:
Quote>>> " WOWWWWWWwwooOOO!!!!...nightmare on decal street! "<<<End Quote...

I love that, a great line...Lol(((😄 )))
4 November 2014, 19:10
KlausH
That´s a really nice one. Great Job! 👍
4 November 2014, 19:17
Jens Valkeneers
Wow that is a clean build and an awesome job on the decalling. Very nice!
4 November 2014, 19:31
Bill Gilman
Thanks, guys. The decals really weren't that bad. Perhaps the biggest problem was that they were designed for the Hasegawa kit, and I used the Revell kit. This meant that the decals did not fit just right in a few places. My build thread from 2011 explains most of these issues:

britmodeller.com/for..pic/77880-f-4ej-kai/

Cheers! Phantoms Phorever! 🙂 🙂 🙂
4 November 2014, 20:38
Gabor Szabo
What a painting! Grat!
4 November 2014, 20:39
Gabor Szabo
Hentai 😄
4 November 2014, 20:43
Saeed Jamali
very welll job ... well done .... how u fit aires cockpit set in the kit , its biger than original kit cockpit , for me it doesnt fit 🙁 , how do u do that man
4 January 2020, 23:29
Es-haq Khosravi
That's awesome!
5 January 2020, 13:06
Laurent VILLANUEVA "HELLER-forever"
nice
5 January 2020, 13:44
Clifford Keesler
I'm speechless Bill. What an awesome Phantom!
7 January 2020, 00:50
Kamil Rudziński
Świetna robota. Mój ulubiony!
7 January 2020, 00:56
Bill Gilman
Thanks. As I remember, the resin cockpit was a bit longer than the kit cockpit, and I had to remove the area for the front instrument panel coaming from the kit's fuselage. The resin pit also had to be sanded a lot as it was also too wide for the Revell fuselage. I also sanded down the kit's fuselage sidewalls. I then had to do some tricks with the resin sidewalls. There are some photos and an explanation in the build thread that I posted above. Cheers, Bill
7 January 2020, 04:31
Saeed Jamali
thanks a million dear Bill
7 January 2020, 05:00
Neal N
Oh my. That is Phantastic. I've been eyeing these Phinal Phantoms, but I'm holding out for the 301SQ kit. If there ever is one.
7 January 2020, 05:02
Igor Chanak
That's great!
7 January 2020, 15:20
Oleg Smilyk
Looking very nice,japans anniversary bird are great!
7 January 2020, 16:21
David Deavall
Very nice indeed
1 February 2020, 16:47
Bill Gilman
Thanks mates! This aircraft has one of the best anniversary schemes ever! I'll have to do a few more JASDF birds so she has company.
1 February 2020, 20:54
Treehugger
I don't normally like flashy paints schemes, but this one looks very nice I think. A good mix of white red and blue.
1 February 2020, 21:29
Simon Nagorsnik
Just awesome!
20 March 2022, 11:34
Villiers de Vos
Very nice.
20 March 2022, 18:44
Daniel Klink
Wonderful especially this version captured and implemented perfectly Bill...Wow!!!! 👍👍👍
What a beautiful result 👍
20 March 2022, 18:49
Robert Podkoński
Wow! What a flamboyant scheme! I love it!
20 March 2022, 19:07
Daniel Klink
10 years ago..ah ok nevertheless a timeless beauty 👍
20 March 2022, 19:37
Spanjaard
Some great models keep on coming back on the news feed year after year, and this one certainly deserves it!
What a.beautiful model!
20 March 2022, 21:29
Bill Gilman
Thanks mates! She sure is a beautiful scheme - gotta love the Japanese Phantoms.
20 March 2022, 22:08
Robin (WhiteGlint)
Very colourful! 👍
21 March 2022, 10:45
Harvey H.W.
Fine finishing 👍
21 March 2022, 14:32
Clifford Keesler
Awesome job Bill, a great looking Phantom.
27 September 2023, 02:06
CaptGPF
Simply gorgeous
19 March, 21:37

Album info

This is the Revell of Germany F-4F kit converted into the JASDF Kai version of the F-4EJ. I used the Aires resin cockpit set, some photoetch, and the Platz decal sheet for the 30th Anniversary scheme for the 301st TFS of the JASDF. This was part of a Group Build on Britmodeller. I just couldn't do another grey on grey airplane...

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1:72 F-4F Phantom II (Revell 04615)1:72 F-4F Cockpit Set (Aires 7075)1:72 JASDF F-4EJ Kai 301 TFS 30th Anniversary (Platz JD-29)

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