Ian Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 (edited) Interesting, I'm doing exactlly the same - The RF-4B was cheap on Amazon, and I already knew that it had the later bulged main-wings after reading a coupl of reviews - I had in-mind to build an RF-4C all along. I've already swapped-out the stabs and wheels for the ones from C/D kit and bought Aires pipes and the Eduard RF-4C Zoom set to go with it. Of course that means I'll need to swap those items back-again when I build my C/D... but that's some ways over the horizon !! Ian Edited May 10, 2011 by Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Whats the difference between an RF-4C and and RF-4E? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 6 hours ago, PhantomBigStu said: Whats the difference between an RF-4C and and RF-4E? Mainly the engines, the C had a variant of the J79 with short afterburner (like the F-4C and D) while the E had the longer exhaust of the F-4E. I believe most RF-4 kits also include the later longer afterburner, so should not be too much of a problem to build an RF-4E from an RF-4C box... at least if the E you're interested in has the same style of nose supplied by the box: some users had aircrafts with the older square nose (for example Germany) while others had aircrafts with the later rounded nose (Japan, Israel). The RF-4E was a variant meant for export, better check the configuration employed by each user before committing to building one. I should mention that a number of RF-4Es also had the slatted wing typical of most F-4Es. These slatted wing aircrafts were built for Greece and Turkey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creepy Pete Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 RF-4C's also had the straight, pointy, US Navy style inner wing pylons, while RF-4E's have the curvey ones. The round and square noses could be found on both the RF-4C and RF-4E. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hook Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 For another nice and obscure variation, some very late RF-4E's delivered to Greece and Turkey featured the slatted wing. Cheers, Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 Tthanks guys, got myself a revell RF4E via the tigermeet twin box, though may well end up not backdating it to an C, and doing it as a the bog standard luftwaffe RF4 it was before tigermeet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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