Italeri 1/48 F-4J

[jugjunkie]

Dug this out that I had started 8 years back.



The cockpit looked super shit so I ripped everything out and squeezed in an Eduard colour set - but it was for the Hasegawa kit so couldn't use it all and it took some work to get it in. Also stuck in a pair of those ubber gorgeous Quickboost bangers.







....and stitched up....

 

[moon puppy]

Good start Goeff. Great job on the pit, IP really looks good. Should stand out under the canopy.

 

[jknaus]

Nice pit
James

 

[Hippy Ed]

:hmmm

 

[ij001]

I remember those old Esci kits from the mid 1980's. They build well, a little light on detail but an excellent two-weekend type of project.

Like your pit & IP, Geoff, made a great start there.

Ian.

 

[Swordsman]

Looks real good Goeff, .... Excellent Pit .....

 

[sharkman]

Looks fine to me JJ!

 

[lupanzer]

Looking excelent!

Luiz

 

[jugjunkie]

Thanks all for kind comments, been busy on her over the last few weeks. I have to say, having built one of these kits previously and I thought it was just me, but the canopy fit on this kit is appalling! It took me two days and about 13 hours of work to get some sort of decent result. Note to self - never again!

So far so good.....





Ooops first problem....




Houston...we have a problem....



....and after huge amounts of work, this is about as good as it gets.....





....and all masked up....





.....and primed....





Light Gull Grey with some slight colour variation.

 

[SA Dave]

Bet that canopy made you swear :evil:

 

[moon puppy]

Excellent fix! If they make multipart canopies to display open, I wish they would also supply a solid one.

 

[Swordsman]

Well all t can say is with a great pit like that it should be open ... Nice job on fitting the winders .... Looks like the paint will be very good also ...

 

[Hippy Ed]

Excellent fix! If they make multipart canopies to display open, I wish they would also supply a solid one.

Roger that!! I had a slight canopy problem with my 1/48 Monogram F-4J & what I did was, started from the rear & worked foreward.

 

[phantom II]

Wow , it brings back memories of replacing the real ones . Sometimes it would take up to a week to get it adjusted into place and then trim out the sheet metal to fit No fun at all .

I wonder if adding some sprue to the aft edges and trimming them fit would have worked . That are is pretty beefy anyway . ( just saying )

Looks good now

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[lupanzer]

Great job

Luiz

 

[ij001]

Really put in the 'hard yards' on this build. This is shaping-up to be a really excellent build - no pressure you understand.




Ian.

 

[jugjunkie]

Thanks for comments Guys, Chrstian - that is exactly how i did it, i used clear sprue. I have a thing about open canopies, always worried they will show up toy-like. Anyway looking forward to finishing this one now.

 

[jugjunkie]

Some further progress today.

 

[phantom II]

Thanks for comments Guys, Chrstian - that is exactly how i did it, i used clear sprue. I have a thing about open canopies, always worried they will show up toy-like. Anyway looking forward to finishing this one now.

Well, I understand the toy idea but your cockpit looks so nice I would hate to hide it in anyway .

I think you probably could have used white spue to fix the misalignment and it is so much easier to work with .

Might thoughts on it says the guy that has not tried it :S . Either way, it looks quite sharp now

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[jugjunkie]

Started with the decals and things didn't go so well. If anybody here has the Eagle Strike "PHANTOMS PHOREVER PART 3" decal sheet and is willing to part with it, i would like to buy it please. The tail Codes and VF number were both destroyed first time round due to age I think. Anyway thus far.....