Ade's F-4F Phantom II WTD 61 "Flight Test"

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

After a very short voting period the Phantom just edged it over the Spitfire, so here we go.


Feel free to pull up a chair, I'll try and post as many progress shots as I can, this is going to be a huge build for me and the decals at the end look very daunting!


Here's the box and sprue shots.


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The Mars bar is to give you an idea of how big the decal sheet is


Adrian

[papa 695]

Nice one Adrian, looking forward to this my tortoises vote must have won it then

[Guest]

Although my vote was for the Spit, this looks a nice kit! Looking forward to seeing more

[Robert1968]

Yep I like that ans what a decal sheet ( I'll be watching as never built a phantom before. )


Good weathering onthe Mars bar ( looks almost lifelike )


Regards


Robert

[flyjoe180]

Good, good. Is that a mini Mars, a standard Mars or a 20% extra Mars?

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Just a little update on the office, the decals went on nicely and dried nice and tight to the plastic detail. The seats are now in the front nose section and I have to say its a terrible match up on the two halves, I'll need to so some major seam work if I'm going to have perfect gloss black paint work.


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Comments welcomed as always


Adrian

[papa 695]

The pit is looking nice Adrian

[flyjoe180]

Nice start Adrian. Lucky you had the ejection seat handles included.

[Guest]

This will be nice to see, it's a crazy colour scheme!

[ojays]

Watching this!

[takeslousyphotos]

I'll be watching this Steve......... Looks very good so far.

[Guest]

Good luck with this one - looks like a MAJOR build - look forward to seeing progress shots----best o luck !

[Ian M]

Nice start.


I do like a nice spook.

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Hi guys and Gals,


Just wondering if I should add " Remove Before Flight Tags" to my build?


Also is it worth getting the metal under carriage? Looking at the one in the kit it seems details enough.


Thanks in advance


Adrian

[john i am]

Get the tags forget the rest