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A late entry, if I may? I'll be building a kit that holds a lot of memories for me. IMG-0934 by Paul Bradley, on Flickr This is H-179, the 1/72 F-4E Phantom, a kit that was released in 1976, but is most likely a modified version of Revell's original 1965 F-4B kit (H-110). It would have been 1976 or thereabouts when I first built this kit. My dear nan bought it for me, probably (and rightly) thinking that the dramatic box photo would be attractive and exciting to a 12-year-old budding aviation fanatic such as me. I don't know if this was a birthday or Christmas gift, but I'm sure it would have been rushed to my desk for assembly very shortly after being received. I do vaguely remember painting it in USAF Vietnam colours and using the kit's decals, and being very pleased with it, putting it in pride of place on one of the shelves that ran around my bedroom walls, shelves my dad had put up just for my models. It was one of those shelves that led to this model's downfall as, not long after completion, one of the shelves came loose and crushed the Phantom. I was distraught; I remember a flood of tears. My dad felt rather guilty and bought me a replacement kit - the Airfix F-4 Phantom kit, which I finished as an Israeli AF version as part of my burgeoning IAF collection. But that's another story... So this build will be of that 1976 Revell kit in honor of my dear late nan, who died not too long after I received this kit. I found one of these on eBay for a song - I guess with so many modern Phantom kits, this oldie doesn't receive a lot of love. My intent is to try to give the kit a bit of love, by rescribing, adding some (but not too much) detail and generally smartening it up. It is a near-60 year old set of moulds, so I don't expect too much in the way of sharp detail and fit, but we'll see what I can do. As the original decal sheet is rather nasty - and I don't build Vietnam stuff - I'll be substituting some period decals from Modeldecal for a Japanese ASDF machine.