F-4F Phantom (Revell, AirDoc, 1:32)
This build was made for a collector in germany. He likes the F-4 very much, as he was living near an airfield base in earlier times. He wants me to build exactly this aircraft before it has gone to a museum-hangar. It was a big challenge, ´cause finding the right colours was very difficult. As he wants the aircraft very clean, I did not applied any pre- or after-shading (only a smooth wash). At the end there was a big and beautiful Phantom and it was worth every single effort – Phabulous Phantoms forever!
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Rob Pollock said on August 13, 2016
A sparkling build, Christian.
George Williams said on August 13, 2016
Very nice, Christian, I’m sure your German customer is very happy.
Robert Royes said on August 13, 2016
Phantastic Phantom.
Dennis Meyers said on August 13, 2016
Great job! What colors did you use?
Chuck A. Villanueva said on August 13, 2016
What a great start with your F-4F in 32nd scale, the quality and the different schemes to look forward too. You did an excellent job with this tough old bird Christian, If this is the original 32nd scale Revell Phantom, you did very well. I bet it took longer to apply all that stenciling than it took to build it almost. Thanks for sharing.
Craig Abrahamson said on August 13, 2016
Great looking build, Christian….and my favorite as well. And as Chuck mentioned, it appears you used ALL the stenciling on the sheet…nice!.
Allan J Withers said on August 13, 2016
Good looking model Christian.
Christian Ristits said on August 14, 2016
thanks again for your motivating words my friends!
Its the original Revell-kit, but in the kit there is olny available the test-flight-version. So we had to use decals from Aerdoc, which are of very good quality. And yes, I used all the stencils 😉 Aerdoc was so nice and put some stencils in groups together, so it was less effort. But on the other hand I was fighting against some silvering, this was also the reason why I had to remove all the paint on this kit and paint it for a second time (!).
I used Revell Aqua Color, underside is silver with a little grey, topside is Revell 179 grey-blue with 346 Nato-Olive.
Greg Kittinger said on August 14, 2016
Excellent build! And I know what you mean about the AirDoc decals – see my recent post…
bob mack said on August 14, 2016
that is wonderful…the F4 looks so German…i’ll bet the “paperclips” had something to do with it
Christian Ristits said on August 15, 2016
Thank you Greg and Bob!
Yes, the issue with the AirDoc decals was serious – I had to re-buy the whole kit + decals…as it was a build for a collector it should be almost “perfect”…I was very happy when it worked at the second time.
Cheers, Christian
Richard Mcstay said on August 15, 2016
Stunning clean build. The cockpit looks great! It looks like the decals were no easy job, there must be hundreds.
P.k said on August 17, 2016
Like!
Emre Tuzun said on August 18, 2016
That’s a neat one Christian!!
That is my next project on the bench, which is about to start in September.
Will be either:
JaBoG 35 38+54
Pferdsfeld ‘Schinderhannes’
or
JG 74 Mölders 38+20
Jever
Christian Ristits said on August 19, 2016
Thanks Emre, looking forward to yours with interest! Cheers, Christian
Christian Ristits said on August 19, 2016
Thanks again Richard, P.K and Emre!