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Mirko Römer
Looks really great!! ?

Patrick Hagelstein
It surely did Łukasz! I was bound by a deadline to bring it in for the model club meeting last Friday. Only back home, I saw I left off the spent cases chute for the machine gun mount. :-/ That'll be added when I bring it back home. I'll also post some better pictures then.

Patrick Hagelstein
Thanks for the compliments Neuling and Mirko! 👍

Laurent "HELLER-forever"
great

Patrick Hagelstein
Merci bien Laurent!

Slavo Hazucha
Probably will be a very nice kit. But the ZM standard already appears to be very high, according to trusted sources like youtube & co...

If I were to build one, I´d go for one of the gorgeous JSDAF "Goodbye Phantom" schemes - like the last one in the ZM line-up... May still happen in the early 2030´s 😄

Patrick Hagelstein
Hi Slavo! Yes, I can fully agree on ZM having a really high standard as I have their F-4S in my stash and a club member built the F-4D and it looked great! 👍 Thing is though, that ZM doesn't have an F-4B or F-4N in their line-up yet. Since Tamiya put in an F-4B and knowing Tamiya's quality, I'm more than thrilled right now. If ZM were to bring out an F-4B, then it would be a very hard comparison between the two, but for now I would pick up that Tamiya F-4B blindly. 🙂 I'm hoping though that either one of those companies would bring out a soft wing late F-4E/F/G. Fingers crossed for that! 😉 But aren't these glorious times to be a modeler? 😄

Maciej Bellos
Those late E/F/G are something missing in this scale, so somebody will release it sooner or later.

Konrad Limmer
I'm also looking forward to the late E and G version.

Anyhow a few days ago I got the new early E from ZM. Awesome looking kit a lot of details and possibilities to show it at the end of the day. The decal sheet looks also very impressive there are more than 400 decals to apply on this one 🙂!
In case that there is only one decal option you will have to apply them all 🙂...

I love this plane and I don't know really why but hey yes there are great times for this hobby and I believe once this one is available I put it into my stash 🙂.

reefta
I finished ZM f-4e few weeks ago and it was a joy from start to ginish

Roland Gunslinger
Watching ?

Spanjaard
me too 🙂

Sebastian Meyner
Following 👍

Patrick Hagelstein
Welcome guys and thanks for joining in! I bought this kit on impulse and not knowing what to build it into, until I saw the Group Build pop up through Sebastian. I have a couple of other projects on my bench (and those are not getting the TLC they deserve right now either....), so this one will be a future project. Seeing that the Group Build lasts until 31 December, I still have some time, but I hope I can start this one rather soon: 1) The kit is amazing! 2) More importantly, I like co-building with my mates in a group build. More to follow! 😉

Sergej I
Watching. Waiting 🙂 Plenty of time still. No rush 👍

Patrick Hagelstein
😄 No sense of pressure whatsoever..... 😉 I was at the local hobby store yesterday and they had the Profipack MF version just in. I was holding that box waaaay longer than needed before putting it back. 😉 Had something to do with building like a glacier on downers and offering some of my stash for the club auction. 🙁

Murad ÖZER
that boxart is surely spiffy, can't blame you with the purchase honestly. 😄

Ben M
Taking a seat. I've been enjoying all the mig-21s.

Jan Peters
Following this one too

Piotr Sarniński-Górecki
First to follow !! :-D

Gary Kitchen
If we're counting I'll be second then 😄

Patrick Hagelstein
😄 Welcome guys! I read an article from a guy grafting Revell F-16A parts to the Tamiya F-16C and when I find the courage to cut up a Tamiya kit, I'll post some pictures of my further progress. For now I only experimented with some colors and altered the front fuselage to correspond with the F-16A panel lines. Update will be slow, because of other commitments now. But.....definitely more to follow in a week or two! 🙂

Patrick Hagelstein
https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235041530-rnoaf-f-16s-part-1-a-and-b/

The article that prompted me to this build.

Gary Kitchen
Nice Patrick. Is the fade just layering of the same colour or darker tones for subsequent layers?

Patrick Hagelstein
Hi Gary, I went from an orange yellow to a true orange and am now mixing a brown shade to go into almost black. Every shade is misted on until a certain density is achieved.

Slavo Hazucha
Got it - minus the smears ("fast" position) I remember doing the wings first on the F-111 too - kind of makes sense on a swing-wing aircraft...

Patrick Hagelstein
Yeah, I want to portray it in the wings extended mode, so therefore the smears would be visible. I don't want to have them abruptly stop where they go under those gloves.

Roland Gunslinger
Ahh, a „B" 👍 Count me in!

Sergej I
Following 👍

Patrick Hagelstein
Hi Roland and Sergej! Yes, it's a "B". 😄
Looking at the BuNo, this plane started out as an "A" initially delivered to VF-21 in the early '80s. I'll check my references, but it could be I'm building this bird twice: Once as a VF-21 F-14A and once as a VF-103 F-14B. Weird...

Thomas K.
I,m too!😉

Patrick Hagelstein
https://www.facebook.com/MigJimenez/photos/pcb.3923399607673717/3923162981030713
Although the box art picture is smaller compared to the one for the initial release, this one has the XXXX in the box art text adjusted to the actual box contents.

Christian Lehmann
👍

Richard Berrie
Well done. Very nice.

Patrick Hagelstein
Luckily the kit comes with a (technically 3) spinner decal. I wouldn't know how to do it without decals or masks though... Well, in real life those swirls were hand painted and in some pictures the look a bit wonky and haphazard, so why try to be more precise in 1/72 than in 1/1? 😉

Mark
Beautiful.

Patrick Hagelstein
Thanks Joshua and mark! 👍

Daniel
Reported for misleading title! (just kidding)
Beautiful work though, Patrick! 🙂

Patrick Hagelstein
Hi Daniel! Indeed misleading.... 🙁 A while ago I was working some albums on my phone and apparently I'm waaaaay too fat fingered to pull that off. 😄 Time for some cleaning up I guess. 😉

Patrick Hagelstein
By the way, this album is also the one I used in the Bf 109 group build. 😉

Patrick Hagelstein
Sadly no-one is gonna see another one like this as well as this is the special farewell paint scheme it received when being retired by the squadron. 😉

Patrick Hagelstein
True! Now I need to actually build the little bugger. 😉

Roland Gunslinger
Count me in!

Patrick Hagelstein
Today was my last working day... Modeling time and this one is high on the to do list! 👍

Chris Greathouse
That looks fantastic!

Patrick Hagelstein
Oops.... Sorry Chris, posted this in a wrong album...Should be this one: F6F-5K Completed | Album by Hagel (1:72)

Patrick Hagelstein
Hmmm.... You pointed me to my own album toss up. Not sure what happened here, but this shouldn't be a Bf 109. It should contain pictures of a future Draken build.... 🙁

Spanjaard
Excellent reference pictures Patrick!! thanks for sharing

Patrick Hagelstein
You're welcome! 🙂

bossy122
When I was a kid, living in China Lake, I remember an F 86 junk yard and wondering how they could just toss history aside like surplus refrigerators. Glad to see one being resurrected.

Patrick Hagelstein
@Joshua, what do you mean with trouble? Did the decal not fit well or did it not adhere? Or didn't it conform to the details on the airbrakes?
@bossy122, as much as we are enthusiastically about keeping these icons well preserved and as much as we hope 'the professionals' keep aircraft as pristine as we have them in our minds, that sadly isn't the reality and to most operators this is just 'hardware'. I used to work with helicopters and during an exercise I had a person come up to me asking about taking pictures while we were training field landings and operations. I told him to stay outside our perimeter and only take pictures of them being airborne. No persons, hardware or anything else while we were working. That's when/were I noticed my internal modeler couldn't care less about those amazing modeling subjects, I was just concerned about the progress of our training and the safety of everybody involved. Afterwards I thought that before joining, I would be that enthousiast wanting to take those pictures. 😉

Erik Leijdens
Looking mighty fine Patrick 👍. Always nice too see a good sharkmouth

Patrick Hagelstein
Dank je wel Erik! I have a couple of future P-40 builds (Special Hobby ones) planned for later and wanted to veer away from the obligatory shark mouths........ But...... I could not not build one, so I used some spare Special Hobby decals on this one. I have to admit, it felt relieving to put those on to that big grinning intake. 😄

Alec K
Looking mighty fine Patrick 👍

Daniel Klink
Yap, really like the result👍

Patrick Hagelstein
Thanks guys! I hope to finish it this weekend. 🙂

Roland Gunslinger
Looks great so far 👍

Patrick Hagelstein
Danke Roland! 👍

David Wallace
Great build Patrick. Some great tips there.

Patrick Hagelstein
Thanks David! Same here! I used this build as a work-up to my next Special Hobby P-40. I learned more than I expected as well. 😉

Daniel Klink
Very cool result Patrick once again 👍
and you inspired me for a little built between the Builds found a started Academy M/N in a cupboard

Patrick Hagelstein
Thanks Joshua and Daniel! 👍 Daniel, I degraded the Academy P-40E to a training build once I received the Special Hobby one. But to be fair to the Academy one, I should have regarded it with the same respect as I did for that Special Hobby one as it truly is a great kit once you put a little work in it. Fit is awesome, panel lines are sharp and consistent and the overall shape is spot on! The interior is a bit sparse to current standards, but in the end the seat, floor, sides and IP can be painted up nicely. Please do enjoy your P-40 as it is a much overseen gem. 👍

Spanjaard
This album will be good in due time, thanks s lot for sharing!!

Patrick Hagelstein
You're welcome!

Roland Gunslinger
Omg, exactly what i need! Thx for sharing!

Patrick Hagelstein
My pleasure Roland! When I went there, I took a couple of pictures of the F-14A they had sitting out there. I looked at places I was interested in as a modeler, but I guess that could be helpful for others as well.

David Thor
Thanks for sharing! And that`s the dream... having your models exhibited in a museum. Or better yet get paid to build models for a museum! 😄

Patrick Hagelstein
😄 I'm not quiting my day job yet...

Dave Flitton
Nice!!

Patrick Hagelstein
Fixed!!! 😄

Spanjaard
Album is still called F-4C 😉

Patrick Hagelstein
Check...

Spanjaard
now it is F-4D 🙂

Patrick Hagelstein
😄

Jos Jansen
Welcome aboard Patrick...!

Michael Hickey
Hey Patrick, looking forward to seeing your Swiss 109.🙂

Sergej I
In 🙂

Patrick Hagelstein
This one is literally still in it's shrink wrap, but I was thrilled by the quality and ease of construction, that after the Grünherz one, I was in for another, being a bit different though. 🙂

Roland Gunslinger
Count me in 🙂

Patrick Hagelstein
Welcome aboard! This one will be an exercise in Swiss cleanliness as I want to portray it right after the Swiss received their 12 G-6s.

Patrick Hagelstein
Muito obrigado, Rui! 🙂

Clifford Keesler
Agree with everyone, beautiful result.

Patrick Hagelstein
Bf 109G-6 Erla 9./JG54 February 1944 Obslt Wilhelm Schilling | Album by Hagel (1:72)
Tried to take some better pictures of the finished bird. It shows I really need to invest in photography and the needed skills for that. 😉

Clifford Keesler
Can't be any worse than mine. LOL.

Patrick Hagelstein
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