That should look great. the German F-4's always look interesting. Not familiar with the trump decals though.

Received the AirDOC stencil set in the mail this weekend. Also got my JH-7A to the point where I'm in finishing mode, and can start on the Testor F-4E. Wow - very few parts, and not much detail in the cockpit. Trying to decide just how much I want to try to spruce it up, since it will be covered with closed canopy and have a couple of pilots in the seats. Probably go with minimal work to the instruments on the side and instrument panels. Just need to decide if I'm going to go for relief, or just decals...

The decals are fantastic, Greg, they are also fun to apply !
A Testors F-4E ? Never seen this kit but when you close the canopies you just need good looking pilots and instrument panels. A nice headup display will be a good addition as well.

Old kits can be fun, if the fit is o.K why not just prime the kit in a dark color ( some say black ) and give it after the camo is on a very slight sanding, more a polish and than the primed dark panel lines will appear. The difference won t bee seen from a normal distance.
That worked on my Airfix Hurricane quite good and saved a lot of time.

Thats the problem of raised panel kits, because of that, i have masked the panels on my Hurricane. The first attempt to do this was on Monograms F-4D kit and it worked only on the undersides.
Its worth a try may with your Voodoo ( also a fine aircraft from Mc Donnell )

Beside that, if you find a Revell RF-4E in 1/72, its worth to buy/build. Good fit and a totally relaxing build. The RoG Phantom kits may have shape problems but they are among my favorite kits in that scale.

The cockpit of this old kit was pretty plain - no dimension to the instrument panels at all. I added some styrene and sprue remains to provide some semblance of dimension,

then a variety of decals (spares box and some kit) and some painted dials.


Will tone back the stark white/red dials before I close it up. I'm also thinking about adding some dimension to the back of the rear instrument panel, and the the area behind the back seat. Not sure if I'm gonna bit that bullet.

Since I do not plan to use the clear plastic parts provided to cover the camera ports, but rather Crystal Clear, I decided to put some hint of camera apparatus behind there in case it was somewhat visible. I decided to paint those grey vs. black so that they might "show up" a little better. Before I'm done I'll work on added some coating to the camera lens to make it look more realistic, both in color and in sheen - haven't figured out yet what that will be.

I test fitted the cockpit into the fuselage and laid a couple of canopy pieces over it. Although the clear plastic on this old kit is a bit thick and distorts, I decided you could still see enough of the rear bulkhead, and the center missing bulkhead, that I'd do a bit more work to it. So...built a center bulkhead, cut up various pieces from the spares box and some small pieces of styrene, added some wire, and now like much better what I've got! You'll see seams in the seat cushions, but once I add pilots those won't be visible.

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