TAMIYA F4 PHANTOM COCKPIT FULL
Includes a full color painting guide and four-language background story.Ĝomes with decals for multiple marking options including VF-51 during the Vietnam War. In part Two we work on and fit the Eduard Photo Etched set to the cockpit and then.Parts are included to depict missiles (the same as Kit # 61114) and drop tank on fuselage underside.
Ěir intake and dust box are combined together for easy setup.Ĝhoose between open and closed canopy, and expanded or stored refueling probe and boarding ladder.Outer wings can be assembled folded or extended, and right and left tailplane move.Fuselage length: 370mm, height: 104mm, wingspan: 243.9mm. đ/48 scale plastic model assembly kit.F-4Bs were the first Phantom II aircraft to see active service powered by twin jet engines, they could carry significant ordnance and were used by the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps through the Vietnam War, and into the 1970s and 1980s before they were phased out in favor of later designs and left U.S. The Phantom II first entered service in 1961, and offered excellent adaptability to a range of purposes.
TAMIYA F4 PHANTOM COCKPIT SERIES
I am definitely looking at some of the other markings on the Bullseye sheet -there is always room for another Phantom on the shelf.This ALL-NEW 1/48 scale model aircraft series kit recreates the Phantom II, which depicts the F-4B variant. The quality of the kit and its ease of assembly is remarkable. I was very pleased with the final result. A little more oil wash was applied to those parts that seem to show more weathering on a typical Phantom. I sprayed a gloss coat at this point to protect the decals and added a flat coat to finish. The Bullseye decals were simply outstanding – they settled down into the surface detail over a little Micro Set, and no carrier film was visible, certainly no silvering. what you see in the photo is what you get. I used the Tamiya decals for these – I have to say they also performed as well as the instrument decals, curling nicely to fit the contours. F4 British Phantom 1/48 Scale Fighter Jet Aircraft Hasegawa Model Kit.
Their instructions also state AIM-7 missiles were not carried by VF-111 due to radar issues - I couldn’t resist adding them though. The Bullseye instructions suggest most stencil markings tended to get overpainted whilst on wartime deployment – fine by me as I was still recovering from putting hundreds on my previous build, an F-4EJ.
My set of Bullseye decals arrived from Sprue Brothers shortly after I had started the kit – I had always intended to do a ‘Sundowners’ aircraft and the Bullseye sheet contains markings for the same aircraft as Tamiya, though for an earlier period in its life. Consequently, they can be difficult to get settled into surface detail. If there is an area where I sometimes have issues with Tamiya kits, it is with their decals – they are always beautifully printed but tend to be a bit on the thick side. Color lacquer paints sprayed beautifully, applied in thin layers so as not to obscure the earlier work, and they dried quickly with a smooth semi-gloss finish, good enough to apply the decals directly, without a gloss coat. I then gave the panel lines an oil paint wash, before applying the top coats. This was more heavily applied aft of the main gear bays. I preshaded the model with a thin mix of Tamiya XF-64 and XF-69, a dirty brown shade. I left off the tail and folded wing tips until painted and decaled – the fit was perfect and the outer wing pylons cover up the joins on the lower wings anyway. I did add some random wiring to the back of the rear panel, just to busy the area up, and some rear-view mirrors from the spares box. It seemed that no sooner I had opened the box that the model was assembled and ready for paint.Įverything about the kit was well thought out, from the parts breakdown allowing for future options, to the location of those traditionally fiddly bits like undercarriage doors and stores – simply brilliant.Ĭockpit detail is good, the Tamiya instrument panel decals settled down well over the raised detail and nothing much else is very visible with the crew in place. Various Alclad shades for the metallic areas – White and Dark Aluminium and Magnesium, mixed to suit.Īll I can say is that the expression ‘shake and bake’ fits this kit exactly. Mr Color 315 Gray F.S.16440 and 316 White F.S.17875, both gloss finish, for the airframe.
Bullseye Model Aviation Decals Fleet Phantoms II (48-018)
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