Charles68 Posted January 16 Posted January 16 Hi All! Sharing my final Hasegawa Phantom in the stash. Its a unique kit from Hasegawa in that it came with lots of PE, rubber tyres, and metal landing gear when released. It may be no longer available and if you fancy an F4S in 1/48 you may be looking at $100 or more for the Zouki Mura ( sp?). Testors was the only other offering for the variant but i can hardly recommend that kit even at budget Ebay offers at $35.00 The F4S is one of the least most popular Phantom variants and the three tone gray is also rarely modeled. This three tone gray scheme can be maddening to reproduce as it comes in a dizzying array of tones, contrasts, blues, grays etc. I decided to finish this with substantial weathering that represents a pretty sun bleached finish. You can barely tell at times that there are three different colors and this is where i started to get really frustrated with the AK Real Colors and Decals. Nothing they manufactured incorrectly but the diff between the LT Ghost Gray, Dark Ghost gray and Medium gray is almost insignificant. The dekal colors were also almost identical in color the base color on which they were being applied. I almost stopped mid stream, stripped the dekals and started over but in the end knew this would be so much effort and decided to carry on. Anyway, The Ejection seats and Exhaust are from Eduard and Reskit respectively. The instrument panels are also Eduard , I scratch made the Sidewinder rails out of left over parts from my previous Meng and ZM builds as they are excellent parts that im glad i had left over. I know this, it is defiantly not the most colorful example of the type I have ever built but it has made me want to complete a type of US NAVY Phantom time line with examples representing the colorful 60's, 70"s, subdued early 80's then this final iteration. Cheers! 34
SAT69 Posted January 16 Posted January 16 Perhaps it's the lighting when the photos were taken, but shouldn't there be more contrast between the two greys? Otherwise a very good looking model.
Retired Bob Posted January 16 Posted January 16 I see what you mean by very little contrast between all the shades of gray, but it still looks good.
Charles68 Posted January 16 Author Posted January 16 (edited) 2 hours ago, SAT69 said: Perhaps it's the lighting when the photos were taken, but shouldn't there be more contrast between the two greys? Otherwise a very good looking model. Hi, and yes if I did it all over I definitely would have chosen one of the "middle" ground patterns with a higher contrast. I used the excellent Cybermodeller web site for references and there are very good examples of this shade on the real plane where you really can't tell there are 3 colors . Other examples are off the chart on the other end of the scale. Id post pics but everything is copyrighted 😞 Cheers!! Edited January 16 by Charles68 1 1
John B Posted January 16 Posted January 16 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Charles68 said: Hi, and yes if I did it all over I definitely would have chosen one of the "middle" ground patterns with a higher contrast. I used the excellent Cybermodeller web site for references and there are very good examples of this shade on the real plane where you really can't tell there are 3 colors . Other examples are off the chart on the other end of the scale. Id post pics but everything is copyrighted 😞 Cheers!! It can be really hard to pin down contrast between TPS colours since they can appear slightly different depending on the light conditions. Weathering and fading can also make the contrasts between the grays less evident. All that to say don't be to hard on yourself. It's a great looking model and the extra work you invested in the cockpit is stellar. I especially like the different metal shades on the not-so-horizontal stabilators. Edited January 16 by John B
Tomcat101 Posted January 16 Posted January 16 I think it looks great. The very subtle weathering is masterclass. Well done.
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