F-4C Wild Weasel "Brain Damaged". - Rebooted!

[ghatherly]

The previous pictures show work I in August-October window.     Here are current pictures with the decals on, shaded colors completed with some weathering.    Paint is Master Model acrylics thinned with Tamiya Lacquer thinner.   I didn't take pictures but I do persuade with a dark gray  FS 36118 the panel lines and gloss black the control surface breaks.   I ended top mixing three shades of each color to add details and depth to the paint.   One thing I did was lighten the Light Green color as out of the jar  it provided to little contrast with the medium green.   IN painting tests darkening the medium green to get contrast made both colors to dark, especially when the real aircraft paint faded from baking in the SE  Asia sun.   One fact that makes painting C Weasels easier is that the jets wee freshly repainted before leaving Kadena for Thailand,  according to Allan Palmer, and so they were as fresh as they appear in pictures.  Another benefit of the repaint saves modelers time is that the C Weasels only had a minimum amount of stenciling applied after the repaint, since they were crewed by very experienced personal.

 

 

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Up next,  weathering and assembly!

Edited November 13, 2016 by ghatherly

[F`s are my favs]

So beautiful! 

[Azgaron]

Excellent work!

 

HÃ¥kan

[Guest Peterpools]

Gary

Looking mighty good!

Keep 'em coming

Peter

[ghatherly]

HI everyone,  I have been making a lot of progress on the build, just not posting.    Time to catch up with that.

 

I have managed to finish the exterior paint and decals,  paint and installs he elevators,  finish canopy frames/HUD/Instrument panels.

 

First the elevators:    I have tried different assembly and finish sequences for the rear fuselage, and installing the rear under fuselage priory to installing the elevators.  To do this I have to cut the one piece elevator into two parts, which makes it necessary to glue them into place at final assembly,

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ghatherly]

Here is the canopy, seats and cockpit 95% completed.   I still have the canopy locking hooks to finish and the control sticks in both offices.    I really like the AirScale Modern Jet decals, both the instruments and the placards.   The colored Eduard PE sets were also used  in part for the cockpit and the seat/ belts.    The wiring and small fittings came from "Detail Master".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A view through the windscreen, I used an MV light for the HUD projector lens:

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking.   I have the main gear to do the remainder of this week.   The tanks are done and that will leave the missiles and pylons to wrap up.

Edited November 30, 2016 by ghatherly

[Magic Mike]

Looks great!

 

MM

[ghatherly]

Finished put he cockpits with the sticks and O2 hoses.

 

WSO Station is unique to the C Weasel.

 

 

 

 

Pilot office.

 

 

 

 

Sorry for the bad lighting and such with totes pictures.   I do not have my phot booth set up since we moved last year and I am using my iPhone for these, so thanks for bearing with me.

 

Here is a couple of shots of the rear fuselage:

 

 

 

 

I poen put the small oval shaped vent and the tap vent tubes installed.  Other hole is for the "T" handle when I get it made.

 

thanks for all the interest and support and taking the time to check out my work.

[Guest Peterpools]

Gary

Holy Cow

Brilliant work on both the offices and the F4. Looks spectacular

Keep 'em coming

Peter

[Tomcat14]

Gary, that F-4 is absolutely Fabulous looking, really great detail and paintwork.

 

Chris 

[ghatherly]

The nose L-gear in the Tamiay kit is very strong but the details need to be changed to get an accurate leg.   Some of these details can be made by carving the plastic and exposing them.   Here is what I ended up doing for mine,  still some inaccuracies but close enough.   

 

 

 

 

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Wing inner pylons:

 

 

 

Edited December 5, 2016 by ghatherly

[Guest]

Love your work my friend !......Harv

[F`s are my favs]

Yeee haw, are these bolts plastic? I like the nozzles the most. Lovely shine, and these bluish nuances... Wilderness.

[ghatherly]

Thanks everyone for the kind words.   

 

The bolts and nits you mention are nickel plated brass, .5mm x 5 mm, the nuts are .8mm and just slip over the bolts.  A touch of CA holds the nut in place.   The round pads are from the Eduard F-15E exterior set.   The hanger  claw part is from Tamiaya's F-16CJ kit.    It really is easy to install the hardware, and there is plenty of MEAT in the arm if you index the hole location and slowly use a .5mm drill.   I left the pins no the hangers as they will fit into holes int he LAU-34 Missile rail mount.   I cut the kit inner wing pylons au quit a bit which is pretty evident from the pictures what I did.  Also note the bolt heads on the rear of the pylon and on the face of the rear wing pad.  These are plastic.    I have a huge stash of misc nuts, bolts, wires, etc for detailing, not to mention many small parts form the various kits that I parted out in years past.   Hope this helps those of you who bought the Conversion set get motivated for a Build!

Edited December 5, 2016 by ghatherly

[ghatherly]

Update 12/8

 

Landing gear installed:

 

 

 

I really wanted the gear to look like the real plane with the mechanisms and such, but decided not to fill the bays with all of the lines that could have been added.   A couple things I did were to thin the edges of the gear doors to give amore realistic look, along with hoses for the retraction cylinder lines.  The wing beams are scratch built, and I carved out the main gear bases to make it appear more real.

 

Thx