? re Tamiyas F-4C/D raised panels

[Bruce]

my bad on verbage.  Like I said, this is something that nobody seems to notice

 

Bruce

[eaglekeeper]

On 2/21/2020 at 7:51 AM, Tony T said:

 

The BDR thing is a myth. Most of the raised areas on the Tamiya are actual panels but should be flush. 

 

Operational aircraft did have repair or demodification patches whilst in service, long before any were converted to drones or used as static BDR airframes. These flying patches tended to be quite thin, maybe 5-10 thou thick in 1/32 scale, or thin-to-medium printer paper thickness.

 

It's a shame Tamiya won't revisit the F-4s to give us properly proportioned jet nozzles, better intakes, a late production E/F and an RF-4.

 

Tony 

 

 

The aircraft used as a base I know for sure it was the ABDR bird, not a myth.

[thierry laurent]

10 hours ago, eaglekeeper said:

The aircraft used as a base I know for sure it was the ABDR bird, not a myth.

This may have been the case but is finally irrelevant as the panels to sand on the kit are NOT BDR patches.