Robert @roofrat - do you have a reference photo or two of the triple-gun bird? I'd love to make one of those too! UPDATE - I found a couple pics of the famed tri-gunned Marine bird, and found a decal set by CAM decals. I found what I think is a German site that had the set in stock, but couldn't make it work to process an order. Hannants had them in their catalogue to back order, so I'll try that. While I was looking for images, I also found a tri-gunned F-4E - Chico the Gunfighter! Two gun pods along with the nose gun, used as a unique "FAST fac" gun ship. Found a set of decals on ebay, an they are ordered and on the way! I love unique birds, and I think both of these qualify - especially for my Phantom collection.

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@airbum, I've done only one exhaust-mounted bird - an F-105 that was so heavily laden that there was really no place to insert the rod through the fuselage. Although it looks good that way, there were two things I didn't like about it: 1) I had to take more time to revise the wooden base, to add a piece on the back end to allow the whole thing to give me the angle of flight I wanted - time taken away from actually building a model!, and 2) it takes up more room in my display cases, which is in short supply!

This should result in a terrific collection along one theme, keep at it!

Afraid my butterfly attention span prevents me from doing anything as ambitious as this, I go off into something else at the drop of a hat.

@roofrat - thanks for the pic! I also tried all those looking for the CAM decals. The Fox One on ebay were 1/48, so I passed (though $40 was more than I'd pay for most decals as well). I'm praying CAM reissues their sheet - have one backordered at Hannants...

Phar out!

I'm moving this week and all models and modeling support systems are packed and ready for transit, BUT that doesn't stop me from visiting eBay (much to my wife's chagrin). I saw a lot this weekend of 16 1/72 Phantoms, and to make a long story short I won the auction by about 50 cents! So, I've got 16 more kits to come up with schemes to fit nicely into the now 60+ Phantom project!

Wow, you are a dedicated Phanatic, Greg @gkittinger!
16 1/72 Phantoms won in auction? I love it!
PS I know such cases have a low WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor), somehow we all have all established tricks to handle such situations - lol!

You are a true multi-tasker, Greg (@gkittinger). Moving and bidding and keeping up with iModeler. You can never have too few Phantoms!