TimHepplestone Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 1st one for 2019. Tamiya Phantom F4(j), decked out as a 74 squadron aircraft using Yellowhammer decals to depict a F4J(UK). Great kit that builds into an imposing model. All errors were user generated!! R Palimaka, LSP_K2, Trak-Tor and 23 others 26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustiepal Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 That is super nice, fantastic job! Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimHepplestone Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 Thanks Dave. Appreciate it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mooney Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Loving that, superb outcome indeed. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 How do you make gray look so good? Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmayhew Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Looks awesome. To a Phantom novice, what makes this F-4J UK spec? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Great Toom there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shan Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 wow, so delish!!!!! more pics of the cockpit please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimHepplestone Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 13 hours ago, themongoose said: How do you make gray look so good? Well done! Thankyou sir. I used black basing for the first time, and I ,ust say that I'm a bit of a convert, especially for a large expanse of grey such as this. That was followed by several layers of dilute oils. Some panel line washed and verticle dot filtering on the fuselage. Then some areas I faded with white/ light grey oils applied as a kind of filter. Essentially just built it up slowly until I was happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimHepplestone Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 13 hours ago, nmayhew said: Looks awesome. To a Phantom novice, what makes this F-4J UK spec? Thanks. As far as I know they were off the shelf US F-4J"s that were repainted by the US in a wierd kind of blue/grey/green colour. Then they were repainted by the RAF into the colours I tried to emulate here. One modification I did add a reinforcing bellt strap which was fitted just on front of the undercarriage scratched from plastic card like so... Another modification I didn't attempt was the periscope that was installed to the port side of the RIO's station as seen here. I read somewhere that these periscopes came from Centurian tanks but haven't verified that. Anyway, there was no way my rudimentary skills could scratch build that so I left it out. Lets just say my Phantom is depicted prior to the periscopes being fitted I'm sure that the Phantom experts here will have other minor modifications that should be made but I was happy to leave it at that. Greg W, Bill Cross, Anthony in NZ and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Cross Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Lovely weathering to an otherwise excellent build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DONG Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Very nice well done sir. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan_G Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 great build and finish! jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Not sure how I missed this! Beautiful build you have done, very inspiring indeed for my Brit conversion. You really have an eye catching model there and I like the way you layered the greys...awesome! Cheers Anthony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Nice looking Phantom, the weathering looks great! Ernest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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