tony.t

Please articulate the propellers so that they rotate.

Eric Gallier of e-resin (ericg on LSP) used to make them. Very nice too (designed to enhance the Fisher T.7 conversion) Tony

A new tool Tamiya 1:32 F-4 for €190? Maybe double that, which is one of several reasons why they aren't doing one. More's the pity as it would be great. Apart from some incredible Revell kits, 1:32 jets are few and far between and firms like Jetmads have pushed the price ceiling higher. It's a new reality. Tony

Preferably with the hook and Harley nose as a GA.11 Tony

I'm expecting about the same converted to £ including "shipping": around £285. It's something many of us want one of, to get a good F-4B. And there should be a sufficient fiscal refractory breather before the F-4J emerges. If it's much more I will wait for prices to fall. Which might or might not be a long wait. According to our UK Consumer Price Index there's been ~149.54% inflation since the mid-1990s when the 1:32 Tamiya F-4C/D was released, so all things remaining equal a new 2026 1:32 Tamiya F-4 would be around £237.06. Add £85 for the compulsory acreage of 3DP decals, et voilà! But, yes, there's a very very nice Tamiya 1:48 F-4B out there and a new Airfix 1:48 F-4K to stir the senses, both of which can be had for half a Redpill biggie. So there is plenty of consumer choice. Tony

Why exactly the panel lines are so big in places does not alter the fact that they exist, and are likely to remain through every variant released. I'm intending to use filler on the nose barrel and other select areas plus a filler-primer over most of it, first. I just accept this as part of the price for a model that so successfully captures the essence of the F-4. At this stage most people in Western Europe are more interested how much Ammo MiG or Hannants are going to charge for kit + mailing. Tony

Okay, so better not sell both the Revellogawa Phantom kits then? I suppose no news is good news (?¿) Tony

From memory, gloss. Remember seeing it at the 1979 IAT at Greenham Common. Tony

Nothing announced but we can live in hope. The first edition F.8 with the FR.9 parts included sprue L with the Meteor T.7-type windshield (part 242) as unused. So my take is that Revell has at least designed the parts but whether they'll cut the extra moulds and squirt hot styrene into them is a matter for the powers that be. And a matter of time. For example, in reverse, it took three years for the single-seater Me 262 to follow the new tool two seater, and another 7 – this year – for the variant with the big cannon to emerge. The 1st Gen Harrier series looks set to dominate the jet slot for the remainder of this decade. Tony

Sorry, wrong thread

It might be a new tool Short Sunderland, depicting one from №201 Sqn. A bit tangential but possible given the 67 year age of the existing kit. Tony

Mk H7 seats were introduced from around 1968, though did take a few years to fully implement. Mk 7s are in keeping with the schemes on offer though I agree 5s would have been a nice addition. There are no unslotted stabs in the kit AFAIK, but if you want to grind off the aerofoils from the kit ones to create an early-mid 1960s F-4B stabilator remember also that these early a/c had full span mainplane BLC L/E flaps, à la F-4C/D. The inboard L/E flaps were fixed from Block 26, alongside the stab slot rework, as seen on subsequent F-4J/K marks, and retrofitted to all earlier Bs during NARF maintenance. Tony

I'm hoping for the GR.3 sooner, by Revell including the nose parts as unused (source your own markings) or as an alternative to any GR.1/AV-8A options. Tony

We've known about the drainage ditches for some time. We shouldn't have to use filler, but filling then later sanding with emery paper won't take any longer than removing the chunky panels and rescribing a Tamiya fuselage. The wings might be mostly left as-is. The outline shape is so good that it is borderline irresistible to an F-4 afficionado, and makes the Tamiya look naff. Red Pill are Phantom Phanatics and modellers and I believe they were designing what they wanted. The rest of us can buy or not. I hope it's a success as other variants will follow, including a properly proportioned F-4J and slatted winged F-4E — yay! I don't see any other new tool Phantom IIs on the horizon, so we ought to celebrate this release. Tony

Unbelievably good news. In for every edition in the sequence, 2 of the SHAR. Tony