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Whoakay, after walking around my apartment like a lunatic looking thru my camera with one hand, and holding this model with the other,..I finally got some light on it to show why this mod is desirable. Nuf said. This is the way it looks now.
 

 

Place the bottom of the wing/fuse on to make sure I haven't stepped on a land-mine yet. Uh huh, still okay.
 

Tape everything back together and place in fuse to make sure it sits at the correct angle. Swweeet!
 

This is the outside of the intake trunk being glued to the engine nacelle. As ya'll can see, my 'strategically' placed line ended up being tactically missplaced. Meh, it really served no purpose, I just wanted it to look like I knew what I was doing.
This is the next area to fill in. This is why the intake looks 'less than optimal' when viewed from the front. Hmmm, actually the entire reason for doing this mod.
 

Here's the 2 halves split open to show I've started smoothing out the insides. Ooooh, I'm getting goosebumps.(or is it my skin crawling, or one of Matt's 'bugs' crawling up my leg? )
 

Heeey, thanks Derek. But nothing new under the sun....it's already been done I found out. I searched to find out how they do seamless intakes on 1/48 F-4's, and lo...they are cast almost exactly like I'm doing mine in one piece. At least I'm on the right track? Gonna have to do something unique to mine now to set it apart from the 'herd'.
Where was I? intakes,...right. Okay, here on the right is my almost completed intake trunk. All the styrene on the outside looks like crap, but I don't give a pinch of owl dung. It won't show. On the left is what it looked like before 'modding the mod'. The 2 halves aren't glued together yet.
 

This intake assembly will drop straight in as one piece. Doesn't affect the fit of the lower wing to fuse joint, and uses all kit pieces. It's just assembled in a different order, in a different way. I'll be taking pics as I go along to clarify. Can't wait to take that last pic of a flashight shining into it from the engine end,....and it'll be seamless. Whahoo!
 

I love to whittle. Don't want this part of the fuse, cause I'm going to filling in the 'slots' on the intake trunks. I want it to drop straight in.
 

Problem is, when you put the outer nacelle on and look into it. Whooo, not good. The splitter plate hides most everything on the side towards the fuse, but the other side? Words fail.
This is what ya get when it's dry fitted. Let's start chopping.
 

THE END;
 

Whelp, Got done with this Phantom about 3 weeks ago..., and because it finally needed dusting(the kiss of death for any of my builds! ) , I've given it away. Took some quick pics for the gallery to finish this loose end, and kicked it out the door. Thanks all for following along while I slammed this Spook together, it was a hoot. Been off on another wild tangent, making VERY large jet aircraft for my own personal amusement lately...so I've been kinda scarce. Ahhh well.
Here's the final set of my usual crappy pics. This thread is now history.
 

Problem is, when you put the outer nacelle on and look into it. Whooo, not good. The splitter plate hides most everything on the side towards the fuse, but the other side? Words fail.
This is what ya get when it's dry fitted. Let's start chopping.
 

HURRAY! Congratulations on surmounting all the obstacles and bringing this build over the finish line!!!! Turned out magnificent(as usual), .....and what a cool paint-scheme, and gnarly skulls. I like the missing teeth. Bet this makes an interesting size comparison with all your jets? heh heh. This is going to make a nice addition to the gallery pics for this GB for sure! Can't wait to see what you start on next dude. Later, Russ

OK, time for some walk-around pics of where i finally just decided to call it quits. This is it, I ain't doin no more! This build is officially finished. I usually do a few Reno racers thru-out the year, but I've never posted any builds until now. Lotsa fun,....and I hope everybody has enjoyed watching me hack stuff up. On with the show, eh?!
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Think the next step on this monster will be cutting out all those by-pass holes in the nacelles and inserting all the details back into them. Then I can finish smoothing out the airframe and add the corrugations to the tops of the wing so I can install the landing gear. More pics soon! Later, Russ
 
 
 

Whoohoo! Thanks for the compliments dudes! Tis the season for all the Volkswagen shows here in SoCal, and my restoration shop is going to have a few vendor booths to set up in the next few months. Soooo....,dividing my time is going to be tough for awhile.
After missplacing my 'closed burners' yet again, I just went ahead and chopped up the open ones I already had on the model. Nothing really new to show, just a mod of what I already had. Here's a comparison of the open versus closed nozzle;
 
 
 

Heeeey Daywalker! Glad you showed to check things out. Yeah, I'm pretty pumped up about getting the formers on so I can put some 'swoop' on it with the stringers. Kinda hard to tell anything with just bulkheads. Here's another view.
 

Ooooooooh, yeah.
 
 

Not used to drinking coffee. I'm going to go pass out now. More pics as things transmorgrify. Whatever that means.