I'm aiming for a gently weathered look, just enough to break up the surface areas without looking like it's been at sea for decades. In the US Navy type aircraft, the pilot seated on the front and the RIO (radar interceptor officer) on the back. Next up is the pre-shading and colour coats. 30 years experience building plastic models. He is the expert here on the F-4 Phantom II. Member since April 2006 From: Maryville Tennessee F-4 Phantom Resin Cockpit. One to remember for the next build - I think that part can be added later in the process. Order Ascending Order Descending oleander13. One thing I did out of order from the instructions was to add the nose gear door - mainly to protect the "clip" which protrudes outside the bay, and has been broken and glued several times already. I've been working away at this without really taking any photos, so.Īfter that, I started assembling the bulk of the kit, which went together quite quickly, with only a bit of filler needed around the rear of the intakes and the underside fuselage join. Next up is making them look like they've been pumping out flames and soot: and priming them - Halfords white first, then Vallejo black: If/when I build another one (I've got the Good Evening Da Nang version in the stash as well), the original plastic part for the right hand RIO's side panel actually looks better than the etch IMO.Īfter that, it was on to the toxic dust stage - freeing the resin exhaust parts from their plugs: I'm still not convinced I've got the RIO's side panels positioned right, but I followed the instructions in absence of good reference photos (I used to have a couple of good books, I wonder where they ended up?). Found them all and sorted out the damage, but it turned out to be fortuitous because when I tried test fitting the lower front fuselage to the main fuselage (after adding the IFR probe bay), I had to do quite a lot of adjustments to get it all to fit right. I got the Eduard etched cockpit parts glued together with only a few bits pinging off into the aether and some wayward glue.Īfter I took these photos, I glued the cockpit to the front undercarriage well and lower front fuselage, and promptly dropped the whole shebang, causing a few of the panels to ping off.
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