Antonio Argudo

Jay wonderful work on that tail, you nail it! now I'm starting to feel sad because this amazing thread is in its ending phase... 😪😅

great project and fantastic work on that cockpit Tom! one suggestion about the control column, the central section should be black (where the placard is) and the top trigger protection is metallic, cheers

🙂 glad to see the canvas boot printed, painted and in place Jay, looks awesome! another ticked box on your amazing build, cheers

the answer is yes and even the F-4 model, here is a picture from a recent lake recovered Friedrich featuring it, cheers

correct! what Radub said, another example without the seat installed showing the plain bulkhead

the Tamiya kit has more a few shape inaccuracies, that one been one, I don't think it would be easy and viable to make a correction set for that, best way would be adding plastic or material under and sanding to shape it up! cheers

the Red Pill Phantom is a never ending story... I lost my hope about it 😔

Mathieu is the Belgian guy behind LFD not me, to your questions, yes! early short cannon nozzle will be included, the windscreen is still in development as we can see in the test shots he has published, cheers

Exactly Tony! cheers

sure! who wouldn't like to have a 1/32 "Wild Weasel" 😀

that's why, impossible to find one under 200 €, they are out of production long ago, similar case with the F-16C Thunderbirds with small air intake, you will have to pay high if you want one, so that's why the LFD comes to the rescue for the long nose Phantom lovers 😉 cheers

well, try to look online for the E or EJ Tamiya kit and you will have the answer, the other option in the market is the Revell/academy kit which the nose is simply very far from the word "accurate"! this set will be super handy for many, including me 😁 cheers

I think that would be easy peasy for him to achieve, also not all JASDF have those strips on the radome cone, cheers

hi Tony, he is working on the open breech cover option too

don't discard more variants from LFD in the future cheers

Mathieu is working on a very tasty conversion for the Phantom long nose lovers in this scale using the J kit as a base, here are the latest test prints and renders of his work, amazing as always!, cheers

Hi, that triangle should be present in all variantas from the G to the K

5 years later since I started this post about these plywood relics, Chandos Publications has published its second issue with an article about the pilot Habermehl in which the mystery and circumstances has been solve by a research team during these years, not only that, finally the pilot's remains finally rest in a tomb with his real name which was misidentified all these years, something I couldn't never even imagine of it would be possible when I built the model also, amazing story, very recommended read, cheers

thanks john, I enjoyed your phantom thread a lot, very inspiring work! a wolfpack one is on the plans too someday thanks mate, so hold on tight because this one will take some time lol thanks Alain, you are 100% right, my main focus of detail and work will be in the cockpit, not any aftermarkets for the EJ versions that's why i will have to 3D print my own panels, so yes, lots of work ahead! cheers thanks John, talking about seats, I will say that the Sparkit ones are the best in proportion and details, however the big downside was the visible 3d printing lines over the top part surfaces and the seat cushion/ belts, the rest was alright. to solve this issue I used this scribing/carving tool very effectively and with some fine paper sanding the effect has been reduce, here are some pics, cheers

collecting some ejection seats, tamiya, eduard, aires and Sparkit working on the cockpit, the RIO bulkhead was transformed into horizontal angle I started also 3D designing the instrument panels

the kit: I am using Tamiya 1/32 F-4J model as a base, lucky a fellow modeller gave me the transparent nose included in the EJ model, so I chopped the nose and insert the long nose Chopping time I painted with grey the interior side of the nose

The Subject RF-4EJ Phantom II "433" from the 501 sq. JASDF

so, I updated this illustration by J.R. Heilig, I added the landing strut cover panel in bare metal and also the wing tip panel line , like in B/C models and in case for "D" models depends but can be seen in early variants too

Another interesting detail we can see on the wings of Mustangs that were ferried to England, as can see in the manuals also, is the separation of the wingtips, therefore the panel line is visible when reassembled, there are pictures of later "D" models been ferried without wingtips separated and they don't show this panel line