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Hello everyone... Im going to be building an 1/48th RF-4B Phantom. It will be aircraft #7347 of VMFP in 1979. I built this kit sometime around ‘83-‘84 it was one of my best at that time as I took a careful approach to painting it. https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/0/0/6/657006-67-instructions.pdf Sadly it didn't survive, well at least not all of it. My friend asked if he could saw the nose off and use it for an RF-4C build in 1992. That model still live today in his collection. I would love to build the testors kit, with the Green tail and Gold wolfshead logo. However those kits & markings are as Rare as 🦄💩. Seeing as its the markings I'm wanting to replicate I will be building this kit Hasegawa kit # PT 31 https://www.scalemates.com/kits/hasegawa-07231-mcdonnell-douglas-rf-4b-phantom-ii--114277 There F-4B kit with the appropriate changes in plastic to get an RF as well as the Correct Decals. This is a question for @Dansk as this kit is a pre-owned kit. My friend started the work many years ago and essentially it is many parts removed from the sprues. The wings are glued together and some of the cockpit is started. Does this fall under the 25% mark ? Please feel free to question, comment, and or post thoughts. Dennis
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RF-4Bs from VMFP-3 at Nellis AFB. BuNo 153092 RF11, July 1980 153110 RF26, November 1980 153091 RF10, May 1981 151980 RF05 and 153103 RF20, Red Flag 84-6, August 1984 153103 RF20, Red Flag 84-6 153105 RF21, Red Flag 84-6 157980 RF08, Red Flag 84-6 Thanks for looking, Sven
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Hi Everyone, As you may know Hasegawa have somewhat shied away from properly completing the Photo Phantom Phamily by only choosing to issue a RF-4B based on the last ten airframes with the later F-4J wing. This inevitably excluded several schemes that needed the modeller to either ignore the wing issue or come up with a 'thin wing' solution. One option was the long defunct Cutting Edge or, more recently, the Royale Resin F-4B conversion and use it on the Hasegawa kit. There was an alternative which actually came out before there was a proper RF-4C/E kit - Black Box produced a RF-4 nose for the Hasegawa F-4C (set 48-052). Now that Academy have produced a brand new F-4B it raised the possibility of resurrecting this option. The plan is to shoehorn this lot: into this: to hopefully end up with this: (Wikipedia image) Before I start this project fully I have to say that the basic paint has been started on the Aires cockpit as I tend to do these in batches, cockpit painting not being one of my favourite tasks. The resin block has also been removed from the nose. Apart from that the base kit is completely un-started: Hopefully this won't affect its eligibility in the Group Build. If it does I have several other options in mind. Until next time, Jonathan
