Best aux air intake for an F-4D?

[Bozothenutter]

Looking for an interior for the aux intakes for the D...they don't seem to exist...but others do....which one could be used as they are quite different in their detailing.

[Don McIntyre]

IMO, use whichever one fits. You can't really see much up in there anyway. I take it you're referring to the two doors under the fuselage?

[Bozothenutter]

Been looking at the kit and pics of the area.....will probably just wing it and box it in with a concave floor and some gubbins.

Doors really need replacing though.

[Air-to-Air]

What was visible in those auxiliary doors probably depended, to some extent, on the engine that powered the aircraft.

As you may be aware, the F-4D was powered by the General Electric J79-GE-15 engine.

I think you’ve already identified that Aires offers auxiliary air intakes for the Academy 1/48 F-4B/N and the Hasegawa 1/48 F-4E/F.

The F-4B/N was powered by the General Electric J79-GE-8 engine and the F-4E/F by the J79-GE-17A.

There doesn’t seem to be much in the way of the auxiliary air door images online but those of an F-4F suggest that Aires may have been a bit light on with the detail when designing the F-4E/F option.

Whilst it may not be technically accurate to use the F-4B/N option it offers a good level of detail and a set of accurate doors. No doubt some minor modification may be required to fit the set but that may be a lot less effort than scratch building the whole area (without detailed reference images).