Introduction
The F-4 Phantom II aka "Rhino", "Double Ugly", “the "Flying Anvil", "Flying Footlocker", "Flying Brick", "Lead Sled", the "Big Iron Sled" and the [...]
I really swithered about sticking this up as I think it's far from my best work.
It took four repaints to get it to this stage and it shows in the loss of surface detail.
Towards the end this was an effort in perseverance and sheer [...]
Seeing as a few of you commented on this F-4J Warlord Phantom in the background of my last post I thought I would feature it here as well. The old ESCI/ERTL Phantoms do have some nice qualities about them, nicely scribed surface details [...]
The old ESCI/ERTL Phantoms do have some nice qualities about them, nicely scribed surface details and a correct shape however the cockpit is a comparative disaster with poor fitting panels, decals for instruments (which aren't even [...]
As Captain Terry Martin of the 562nd Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing told me when I visited the wing at George AFB in May 1982 on assignment from Air Force Magazine to do an article on the Wild Weasels, [...]
I finished Zoukei Mura's very nice 1/48 F-4E Phantom yesterday. It's a well-engineered and highly detailed kit. The only problems I encountered were self-inflicted by yours truly and his many thumbs. I'm mainly a "jet guy", [...]
Hello modelers! I finally finished my F-4E Phantom, going with the European camouflage schema with AGM-65 Maverick A2G missiles and high-res decals. Meng decals are incredibly easy to work with, zero issues. The camouflaged paintwork was [...]
I built and modified this kit back in 1990. It's been in storage for 30 years. Some pieces separated so I decided to put it back together and clean it up a bit.
The commemoration of the long service of the Phabolous adds another colorful dimension to the 'Sea Camouflage' attractive scheme of Japan's RF-4E.
I enhanced the basic mold of the ejection seats and used DXM decals for the specialized [...]