You lucky people, getting two builds in one thread. I wanted to keep these builds together as they have become very closely linked. Hope you don't mind and I'll try not to confuse you or myself during the course of this effort First up and hopping cheekily over the GB fence from the Vietnam GB is the youngest sister, my heavily re-worked Airfix F-4E. Some of you will no doubt be familiar with this effort, but for those of you who aren't here's the link so you can become as bored as the rest
http://uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=253&t=7751;
And here's the current state of play. Naturally, I haven't done much today, a model doesn't make into this sort of GB by being worked on every minute of one's spare time
And here is the older girl, a Hasegawa F-4J. The sprues of this kit have been providing spares to improve the Airfix kit as the Hasegawa kit contains quite a few parts that are not for use with the J version but are fine for the E. This build was started some time in the late '90's and for reasons long since forgotten, was abandoned at the painting stage. The kit was then badly damaged and lived in a supermarket carrier bag for at least 12 years, or rather most of it did. I had to turn the modelling den upside down and inside out in my search for the missing bits but find them I did and there they are in the foreground of the photos.
The Hasegawa kit is streets ahead of the Airfix offering and only needs a bit of TLC before she will be ready for a fresh coat of paint. The build is mostly OOB although there is some Eduard PE in the cockpit, hiding under all that '90's masking tape. I also have some nice Microscale USMC decals that I plan to use on this model.
So, apart from spending most of the afternoon tracking down missing bits of Hasegawa F-4J, I have done a little modelling on the F-4E. Below is the centreline fuel tank and no prizes for guessing the provenance of this particular item
The Airfix tank is a bit of a dud and is not really the correct shape whereas this item is much better. The structure on top is a strip of plastic card to facilitate attachment to the underside of the Airfix fuselage and should not be confused in any way with the centreline pylon fitted to an F-4 Phantom 
So that's it for today. Can I build two models at once? Ho, ho, I can barely manage one at a time, but it should be fun trying!
Thanks for looking.
). I intend to use Humbrol enamel to at least put the base coat on the F-4E during the week but it may be the case that the model ends up being painted totally in Humbrol enamels as I have the correct shades in stock. Whilst I'm at Telford I'll also have a look for some weapons sets, as the F-4J in particular came with none in the box as Hasegawa make their own separately available weapons sets and, naturally, expect modellers to fork out even more money in order to tool up their war planes 
The F-4J is fitted with the OOB Sidewinder rails on the inner wing pylons and, of course, there are also the four recessed Sparrow bays to fill as well.
