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Been doing a fair bit of work on one of these for the past week.


Cockpit is as the kit comes. Correcting some of the flaws as I progress with the build like the lack of 6 sets of vents (top and bottom of the intakes and just above the Spey cans), RHAWS (squared off fin cap) too slim on the new kit so replaced with a clone of the Fujimi one and fin probes have been replaced with brass tubing as the kit ones are very flimsy and almost broke off a few times.

Made an indentation in the top seat cushion with a 1mm drill to make it look closer to the real thing.


Used a razor saw to replicate the intake bleed air ducts.


Plenty of aftermarket decals to choose from if I don't want to use the kit decals.


Cockpit and seats.


Added the post-mod avionics panel.


Starting to look a bit like a Phantom now.


Replaced the fin caps on the kit fins with a casting of the Fujimi fin cap.


Earlier this afternoon.


Current state with the canopy on and fin probes replaced.

Looking good Chris!

Cheers mate.

Some people made such a hoohaa about those bleed ducts being missing, looks like they took just a few minutes to add. I'm sure we'll see the finished product soon at model show coming near us.

The ducts did only take a few minutes to put in. The ones above the Spey cans are another story and I have yet to figure out how to do it.

A bit of extra work done on the Phantom today.

Airbrakes, flaps and auxilary doors fitted. Also assembled and test fitted the drop tanks.

Got the white on the underside this evening. Earlier today I added representative vents that were missing from the back end above the Spey cans and scratched the nav light.

Great to see another build in progress of this exciting newbie from Airfix. Pity about the missing characteristic vents and I would also attempt to replicate them as you have here. But other stuff looks to be excellent such as a decent cockpit, nice wingfold and crucially, for me at least, the separate flaps (it's common for F-4's to have at least the outboard flaps drooped when parked) and not only the underside aux doors but proper bays behind them - I've had to scratch both drooped outer flaps and aux doors on a few F-4 builds over the years so I'm particularly happy that Airfix has done a decent job there. Sounds sad, but that's enough to get me excited about this kit!

Masked up and sprayed the Extra Dark Sea Grey this evening.

Masking only took about 10 minutes to do, even with the outer wings folded.

Excellent, the paint seems to have gone on nice and smooth.

Looking very sharp indeed!

Cool.

Cheers guys.

A bit more on the Phantoms paint job tonight.

Nice job of the metal panels at the hot end, Chris!