1/72 Revell F-4E Phantom II  

by Alessio Orsi aka Oldcrow

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Hi Everyone! This is a F-4E of the New Jersey ANG as it was in 1989. The kit is the Revell F-4F, a German Phantom, so I had to add the slotted stabilators of the E version. They are simply a resin copy of Hasegawa's stabilators that I cast myself. The kit is nearly fantastic. I have three Hasegawa Phantoms in the stash, and this kit is very similar. The best thing is the surface detail, really amazing! Sharp and clear panel lines and rivets... a lot of rivets. Really better than Hasegawa. The ejection seats are good (5 pieces each), I only added belts and the lower ejection handle. Good cockpit with moulded instruments, better than Hasegawa that has only decals. Good gear bays, good landing gears, and a suberb fitting!! The only wrong thing is the canopy. First of all is too thick, especially the two canopies. But the worst thing is that has a too low profile. If you look at the side of the model you immediately notice it. Built it with open canopies, is a lot less evident.

In the end I was very happy with the kit, also consider that here in Italy it costs the half of an Hasegawa F-4....

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The scheme is the Euro 1, that I painted with my Olympos and Gunze acrylics.

  • FS34079 - Gunze H309

  • FS34102 - Gunze H303

  • FS36081 - Gunze H301

Only for Phantoms the Euro 1 scheme has the  green 34079 instead of 34092.

I toned down the colors with a 20% of matt white, and then airbrushed the color from the bottle over the panel lines. Then an oil wash and other weathering basically with oil paints.

Decals are from Hasegawa kit # KA6.

The tow-bar is scratchbuilt.

The display base is made of plasticard 1,5mm thick glued over a wood frame. I painted it with Tamiya XF-19 then shaded with other 2 or 3 tone of grey. Gunze matt yellow and tyre black, and a lot of weathering with oils and chalks. Matt cote and that's all!

I hope you enjoyed my work!

Alessio

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Photos and text © by Alessio Orsi