Airfix Phantom FGR.2

[Mark4700]

I love the Phantom. I think it's my second favourite military aircraft only beaten by the Avro Vulcan I remember seeing them at the airshows I went to as a child in the 70's, always giving a fantastic display. I love the whole look of the airframe, the way the tail planes slope down in position to the end of the wings kicking up, just brilliant.

 

I've had this in the stash for a while. Last month I was watching some YouTube videos on the British Phantoms and I couldn't resist it any longer. I built it straight out of the box, no third party add on's, no third party decals.

 

The kit was a pleasure to put together with all parts fitting together very well and needing little or no fill and sanding. I love the new style Airfix instructions, they are very easy to follow with lots of space for notes if you need to make them.

 

Paint wise, I used a mix of mig and Vallejo model air with Alclad 2 for the metal finish abound the rear, all applied with an air brush. Between the paint and the decals I used a couple of coats of Pledge floor polish and after the mammoth decalling job I gave it a coat of Vallejo satin varnish. It was then finished off with some weathering and a Flory wash. I did quite a bit of research into the weathering before starting. I wanted it to look well used, without being over the top. 

 

Here's some pictures of the finished model. Thank you for looking and I hope you like my interpretation.

 

I know the upper silver probe has bent up on the above image. It has since been back into the hanger for repairs.

 

[Bobby No Mac]

Very tidy, nice work 

[Michael51]

It certainly passes my "does it look real?" test.

 

What a great result,

 

Michael

[alzictorini]

Fitted with a reccie pod. I came across such a pod at the RAF Museum reserve collection at Stafford. It’s a big pod by todays standards.

 

outstanding model, brings back good memories of my days on 228 OCU.

[drake122]

Awesome weathering and paint work. It is just sad the trench like panel lines of the Airfix kit stand out like a sore thumb...

[binbrook87]

That's a fantastic end result. Your finish looks spot on to me. Love the paint and weathering. You can't beat a British Phantom and i can never tire of seeing them modelled. Although as someone has already said it's such a pity Airfix went overboard with some of the panel lines. I still think the Fujimi / Italeri rebox is a much more refined kit.

[canberraman]

Looks just right and I'm glad you've avoided the temptation to weather it to death as we so often see on UK Phantom builds.  Paint colours look accurate and nice to see a II(AC) marked bird.

 

Mark

[Winenut]

I just love a Phantom!

 

Well done 

 

Great version

 

Cheers!

[Paulaero]

I'd echo some of the above comments, see lot's of over weathering which might be very artistic but not realistic . Yours is certainly the latter the underside of toom's got very dirty !!

 

Very nice rendition of the camo scheme, like the sprayed edged finish only very slight point is that the splitter plates ahead of the intakes should be DSG all the way down, no doubt easy to sort.

 

Good to gear it didn't' fight you as I've heard it has affected other builders as I've put off building the couple I have in the stash and can agree with the comments about the Fujimi kit.

 

 

[TonyOD]

Lovely job, most impressive.

[Pete Robin]

Not being a "jet" person, it looks spot on to me.

Very nice work.

Regards

Pete

[Chrisj2003]

Phabulous. Very very nice weathering. 
 

Chris