McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

Maciej Bellos
Following!

Ludwig Micallef
Off we go with the cockpit

Łukasz Gliński
Pholkel Phabulous idea

wilky
This kit actually was released in Australia with RAAF decals.
I never had one but I have seen it at a guy's house when I purchased some kits from him.
It had one of those Australian forces insignia stickers on the box lid that you see

Tim Mansfield
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Calvin Gifford
Not sure if I want to do a ROK Rhino in Compass Gray or an IIAF bird. Will have to give it some slats and a decent cockpit but I have plenty of leftover Academy & Hasegawa parts fortunately.

Calvin Gifford
Found out the first 31 Iranian F-4Es (69-7711 to 69-7742), delivered during 1971-72, were hard-winged. They were coded IIAF 3-633 to IIAF 3-664 respectively. They received Leading Edge Slats as an update during the 1975~1976 time frame.

All other F-4Es later delivered to Iran had slated wings.

Makes my job so much easier & this kit (with some cockpit & nozzle updates) is just fine for that scheme.

Dutch
Hey Calvin, sounds like another outstanding project. I have the same kit and plan on an F-4E with the 32nd TFS, 17th AF, Soesterberg AB, NL circa 1971-72. Looking forward to seeing how you tackle the build. I bought an Eduard PE cockpit set to put on the otherwise flat pannels. K/r, Dutch

Calvin Gifford
Great minds think alike! ;-P Between some repurposed Hasegawa bang seats, PE and scratch I think the pilot office will look pretty good from a couple of feet away.

Calvin Gifford
I did not realize until just now that the Eduard Zoom set for this bird is rather anemic...

Dutch
Ayuh! I too plan on using some AM [True Details?] bang seats. I have the Hi-Decal 1/48 F-4D sheet and will use it on a Monogram C/D for the IIAF. Carry on, brother!

Calvin Gifford
Nice. The only thing I do now to my R/M F-4 kits most of the time is rescribe and add Steel Beach Intakes & Flame Holders. Sometimes AM decals. :-D

sakman84
Just superb well down Academy!

sakman84
Just superb well down Academy!

Spanjaard
I am glad I misunderstood

Choppa Nutta
Me too as you gave me a useful link that helps me out, thank you !

Gareth Windsor
I think I'll get it this time. Mould made with bluestuff and two halves of a kit in my stash. Using filler I made with glue and sprue that can get right into the mould. Fingers crossed.

Clifford Keesler
Good luck. I am trying to figure out how to make a mould, to cast a belly pan/nose wheel well for a 1/72 Hobby Craft F-89 that is missing it. I have 2 other 1/72 F-89"s but can't figure out how to do it.

Gareth Windsor
It worked! Vents need a little trim and they can go on.

Clifford Keesler
Congrats. They look good.

Patrick Hagelstein
So Gareth, you used glue thinned filler for this? From the picture I thought you used sprue goo. Isn't that filler brittle then?

Clifford Keesler
Gareth, what did you use for mold material. I have to find something to use as mold material, to try and mold in flight refueling probes for my ESCI Mirage 2000's and F-1's.

Paul Andriessen
Build in Helenic Archangel coloring. Decals by Syhart Decalling

Sergej I
Did I count almost 400 decals, out of which 390 are stencils?
I think I'd rather rig a Black Pearl

Jos Jansen
...!!

Clifford Keesler
Nice project.

UpRise
It's sell only directly from Russia. In fiture will presented on 48ters shop.

Lars Stigaard
Wow - Great classic old kit from Monogram - From your stash or?

Mark DeBacker
Hi Lars. Yes, going through my stash and documenting it, as I have made some repeat buys in the last 18 months. Some of these purchases were a LONG time ago!

Lars Stigaard
Great - I havn´t done model kit in over 40 years and just started up last year and are in the process of building up some stash relating to my ideas - so I still have some way to go.
I am trying to recreate some of the kits that I did as a young boy and a lot of these kits are old kits - some hard to find and some easy to find - but eBay is a helpful tool.
A lot of the kits from that time was from Monogram because when I was a kid we lived for several years on an america base i Belgium (SHAPE).
Recently my father suddenly passed away and wile going trough his things I found my old 1:72 kit from Monogram of an B-52 - It has a lot of damages, broken and missing parts but I have decided to try an repair and rebuild the kit.
Luckfully I found the exact same kit from Monogram on eBay so know I have the necessary spare parts to rebuild - My timeframe is to start this project some time in 2021

Mark DeBacker
Great project and still one of the better B-52 kits after all these years. Welcome back to the hobby!

Lars Stigaard
Thanks

Łukasz Gliński
Built it years ago (the Monogram Yellow-Tail edition and yes, fully agree, it is very well detailed, too bad all the details are raised.

Jake Holshuh
glad to be finished with this monster. The resin wing conversion is a disappointment as i failed to shim the resin and it kept cracking under mild pressures. I also failed to keep up with all the references that i had, including having to hand paint the horizontal stabilator white after i had already declared the tail. Not my best offering overall but i did decal it for The VMFA-323 Death Rattlers and my old friend Bob Potter who flew a F4B in 1966, 300 missions!

Daniel Tonkin
This model was a birthday gift from my parents back in 1984. I was a young teen back then and my modeling skills were a work in progress. I did not own an airbrush at that time and I brush painted the entire model. Ahh, the good old days! This is one of the models that I still have that has survived the test of time. Yes, it has had a few bad spells of the landing gear breaking off but it's still here 36 years later. The F-4 is one of my favorite military aircraft and I continually look for better kits of it.

Łukasz Gliński
Interesting comparison

Patrick Hagelstein
The review mentions a weird paint instruction in comparison to the box art. This is Luftwaffe Norm 81 and should be ease to find online.

Tim
Thanks for the information. I looked up the color that Revell indicated and to my eye it did not appear to match the box art at all.

Patrick Hagelstein
Not my picture, but it is the box art plane.

Tim
Great picture. Thanks again. It does appear to be a faded out two-tone grey.

Patrick Hagelstein
Actually, it has six colors to be precise. There are lots of painting instructions available when you search for Norm 81 online.

Tim
So I see! Wow!

Alex
Sehr schick, Sven! Hab' zwar schon zwei Phantoms, aber bei der Airfix bin ich immer noch am Überlegen, ob ich stark bleiben soll! Ist die OOB?

Sven Schönyan
Hi Alex, ja die ist OOB. Der Kit hat viele Bauteiltrennungen, weil man mehrere Zustände darstellen kann. Nach dem Lackieren und dank des umfangreichen Decalbogens fällt das kaum mehr auf. Es liegen viele Außenlasten bei, aber die sollte man gegen Resinteile austauschen. Um mir das zu sparen, hatte ich alles weggelassen. Das mache ich beim nächsten 48er Modell wieder.

Spanjaard
Beautiful

Ingmar Stöhr
Very nice. Makes me want to build one myself!

Łukasz Gliński
Great camo choice and awesome build

Sven Schönyan
Thank you very much guys!

@ Ingmar: Do it! It´s a fun build.