Tamiya F4-J
I built this back in 2011 and represents
‘ Shamrock 202’ flown by ‘Lil John’ Cummings and ‘Bear’ Lasseter on their mission on 11 September 1972 whereby they become the first and only (I think) all Marine crew to down a MIG during the Vietnam war and in this case a 21.
The jet displays 2 MIG kills on the splitter plate bit one was removed as they were credited with only the one kill. There is quite a story attached to this mission but that’s for another day.
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Spiros Pendedekas said on April 22, 2020
That’s a great model, Mark! Excellent details. The engine exhast cones look absolutely real. Nice subtle weathering too.
Mark Kannemeyer said on April 23, 2020
Thanks Spiros.
James B Robinson said on April 22, 2020
Good looking Phantom Mark!
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Mark Kannemeyer said on April 22, 2020
Thanks James.
Rick Schad said on April 22, 2020
Great weathering! Very nice build!
Mark Kannemeyer said on April 23, 2020
Thank you Rick.
Greg Kittinger said on April 22, 2020
That is a beautiful Phantom! I love those Shamrock markings also – I was wondering what scheme to put my Marine Phantom in, and I think I’ve found it (now – if I can just find similar decals for my 1/72 build…). Great weathering and paint work.
Mark Kannemeyer said on April 22, 2020
Thanks Greg. Yes this was the Shamrocks deployment on the America. Not often that a marine squadron was found on the boat.
Robert Knaack said on April 22, 2020
Very well done, looks like photos of a real aircraft.
Mark Kannemeyer said on April 22, 2020
Thank you Robert.
Haslam Yeoman said on April 22, 2020
Love that paint scheme.
Mark Kannemeyer said on April 22, 2020
Thanks Haslam!
Robert Royes said on April 22, 2020
Phabulous Phantom!
Mark Kannemeyer said on April 22, 2020
Thanks Robert.
Michel Verschuere said on April 22, 2020
Great build, very realistic coloring and great presentation on the deck! Well done!
Mark Kannemeyer said on April 23, 2020
Thanks Michel.
DIONYSIOS MOYKRIOTIS said on April 22, 2020
Beautiful built to one of my favourite aircraft. Here in Greece we are crazy with phantom!!!!! I am finishing mine “Jolly Rogers” . Beautiful work my friend!!!
Mark Kannemeyer said on April 23, 2020
Thank you very much Dionysios.
gary sausmikat said on April 22, 2020
Very nice all around. That first pic, with the sky background, should be the kit’s box-art!
Mark Kannemeyer said on April 23, 2020
Thanks Gary
Paul Harrington said on April 22, 2020
Lovely job, one of my favourite aircraft, I have a 1/72 scale Revell kit to make, I haven’t built a 1/72 size kit for 40 years and only just started building 1/48 kits in the last two years
Mark Kannemeyer said on April 23, 2020
Thanks Paul
Allon kira said on April 22, 2020
Beautiful job – excellent attention to details!!
Mark Kannemeyer said on April 23, 2020
Thanks Allon.
Richard Mcstay said on April 22, 2020
Smart looking Phantom!
Mark Kannemeyer said on April 23, 2020
Thanks Richard.
Colin Gomez said on April 23, 2020
Great job, Mark. I have the decals for this one and almost finished my Tamiya F-4J in this scheme. You have really done a fine job on the weathering. I can see you did a lot of good work in the cockpit too. The load out must have been challenging to hang with so much overlapping ordinance. How did you do the intakes? That was the biggest task for me.
Mark Kannemeyer said on April 23, 2020
Thanks Colin.
If I remember correctly I used Mulliput to smooth out the intake trunking. I did a lot of that before attaching to the fuselage.
It worked very well and resulted in a smooth transition to the fan.