The stencils on an F-4 are kind of a love-hate thing. They are a real pain to put on and make them look right, but they really look good once you are done, especially on some of the Japanese paint schemes. Great job.

That's true, Spiros @fiveten. As bad as putting the decals on is, imagine being the one who had to paint them on the real F-4s. At least the stencil decals are big enough to see in 1/32.

@georgeswork I just picked up a Fujimi 1/72 RF-4B at a show last weekend, and intend on adding it to my Phantom project as a Marine bird like yours. I've got 2 Marine RF-4B's, so will do one high viz and the other low (just ordered some decals for the low-viz - plenty of high-viz options between the two boxes!).

Getting to the finish line on the Kurnass 2000. Made several mistakes on the paint job, and had a frustrating time getting the Akan paints to spray the same color upon touch-up efforts! Got all the decals on and ready for panel wash and weathering. Painting the ordnance now, and will put it all together.

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@gblair - yeah - I just added another 2 Phantoms to my stash (arriving this week I think) - my Phantom project is up to 49 birds now... I saw some notes on the F-4C Wild Weasel - found some decals for that squadron - and so had to add that to the list! Dad flew the C and D in 'nam, and it's my favorite aircraft.

Your Israeli F-4 is looking awesome, Great score on the EF-4C decals! I'm on the hunt for 1/72 decals for a Marine F-4B of VMFA-122 out of Danang, if I find them I'm going to load it up with three 20mm cannon pods. @gkittinger.

Greg (@gkittinger), you did warn us in the very first post;

This is going to be a long-running thread

Why did I quote you on that? - well, I've been going throught all the wonderful posts and comments in this buildlog to see if I could find an explanation, and I hate to be the one to tell you this: You might have a problem with mice!
I have noticed what appears to be large holes in your latest F-4's, and mice might be doing that - however, should that not be the case, what is the purpose of these? Did I miss it in a previous post?

That aside, I love the latest one out of the shop, and do not think the colordifference you mentioned shows up in the pictures. Keep sending these double smoketrailers, I love them!

Eric @airbum, the guys in my modeling club claim those holes to be flak hits, but Allan @kalamazoo nailed it! I use a dremel to ream out a whole to insert the plastic rod I use to mount all my builds to an in-flight position on a wooden base.