Eduard Brassin F-4B Resin Updates (for Academy 1:48)

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F-4B Resin Updates (for Academy)
1:48 Eduard Brassin

Academy's F-4B was first released in 2012, and Eduard have recently re-boxed it as the "Good Morning Da Nang!" boxing reviewed here, which proved very popular and has long since sold out with most vendors. Now the resin sets that were included in the boxing have been released as separate items, which should please many people by the looks of things. Both sets arrive in the Eduard Brassin deep clamshell boxes, and have the instructions doubled up as the backing card, with plenty of foam protecting the parts within.


F-4B Ejection Seats
As well as the six resin blocks there are two pre-painted Photo-Etch (PE) sheets of parts to complete the build, which will also require you to find some lengths of 0.2mm wire. The seats are identical and only the headbox is separate from the resin part, plus a couple of very small parts that fix to the back and sides. There are a couple of scrap diagrams showing the wiring up of the equipment behind the headbox, which is where the 0.2mm wire comes in. The rest of the parts are from the PE sheet, many of which are pre-painted and can be added after the main painting of the seat is done. A full set of seatbelts are provided in pre-painted PE too, as are the various pull-handles and a pair of very delicate templates to allow you to spray the "CAUTION" and "LIFT HERE" stencils on the seat cushion. Additional masking in this department is crucial, to save overspray from ruining your work. Colour call-outs are in the Gunze Sangyo ranges, as usual.

F-4B Exhaust Nozzles
Comprising six resin parts, plus a small fret of PE for the afterburner ring, this set will do wonders for the detail of the exhausts of your F-4B. The rear of the engine with fan and stator blades is mated with the PE afterburner ring parts, and then glued to the end of the main exhaust trunking, which has a fluted texture to the business end. This is in turn glued to the exhaust petals, which are superbly detailed, with subtle petal detail on the outside, and actuator rods on the inside – detail that would be almost impossible in injection moulding. Each part will need liberating from its pouring block with a razor saw, and apart from being careful not to remove any chunks of yourself in the process, it should be easy to do, as the hollow parts have hollow casting blocks too, saving additional sawing. Once completed and painted, the exhausts are installed using the provided location lugs on the outer casing that fits into the depression in the lower fuselage that was intended for the kit parts.

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and that's only from Eduard Brassin....