F4 Phantom II F.3 74 Squadron Fujimi, 1:72

[cookiemonster]

Hello guys, it's me again.

I found the perfect oportunity to build my Phantom.

It's the Phantom group build in at modellboard.net.

I am going to build a british Phantom. One of the "Tigers" in 1:72.

There is some progress already, but it will still take some time.

Here are some pictures.

The two fuselage halves, requires some putty.

The Cockpit: for the ones that are wondering why there is a white and a grey panel, I made a mistake and sprayed everythign white.

My resaerch statet white Cockpits, but that was wrong.

The decals were allready applied, and I could only get one instrument decal off.

As I testiftted the Cockpitcomaprtment, I found out, that the board would be too low.

Glued, it looks better.

I had to sand quite a bit, some engravings were damaged, I already ordered a Trumpeter scriber.


And now how it looks:
I am going to use Vallejo paints on this one, and I hope that I will be able toget rid of the problems I have with these paintings.

Cheers, cookie

[Giorgio N]

Good to see the old Fujimi kit being built, these are still nice kits

Unfortunately the side panels will all be too low, particularly the rear ones. It's the way the cockpit is (wrongly) designed in this kit.

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[stever219]

I hope you haven't got too far with this: the ex-US Navy Phantoms didn't have the starboard (right) side console in the rear cockpit as the IFR probe took up a lot of space in that area. There is instead a vertical panel all the way down from the canopy sill with a very abbreviated console at its base, IIRC much like the F4-K and F4-M (which were based on the-J anyway)

[AnonymousAA72]

Always nice to see a 'Toom'!! However...there never was a Phantom F3, the official RAF designation was F4J(UK) ...

Edited February 6, 2015 by Bill Clark