DonH Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 Looks great Anthony. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Anthony in NZ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easixpedro Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 I love seeing big bolts like that on airframes. You know it means they’re no longer messing around. Like grabbing a breaker bar for the ol’ wrench. Engineering at its simplest. Cracks forming? Wings flexing? Bolt/pound a bunch of rivets on a really long strap of metal and call it good. she had enough thrust to overcome the parasitic drag, so add a few more bolts while you’re at it for good measure… Can’t wait to see it all under primer. Hope you’re having a Merry Christmas! -Peter Anthony in NZ and Gene K 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvwse4 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Great update Anthony, love it. Nice work on the reinforcement strip. Found a few pictures in the Danny Coremans book about Navy Phantoms and it is just like Peter said bolted under the wings. Cheers Rick Gene K and Anthony in NZ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene K Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 On 12/24/2021 at 3:11 PM, Anthony in NZ said: ... @Gene K for spending many hours and multiple revisions to get these strengthening plates accurate, there are 6 pieces in total. The reason for "multiple revisions" was that as I was preparing the Silhouette cutter files, my references, including "scale" drawings from multiple sources like this, didn't quite match available after-market sets in various scales (Nautilus, Hypersonic, GTR, Flying Leatherneck, and ScalePhantomPhixer), nor photos like those in the excellent DACO book Rick highlighted above, nor with Mr. Google. I also scaled up scans from the 1/72 Airfix Brit Phantom as well as the 1/48 Zukei Mura F-4S for comparison. The most useful drawings were those posted from Navy F-4 Phantom Tech Manuals as shown here. There are some good discussions on LSP concerning the straps here and here, as well as in Chuck's outstanding build from 2013. Thanks, Anthony, for sharing your modeling perfection in such great detail. Just amazing!! Gene K C Baldwin, Youngtiger1 and Landrotten Highlander 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted December 27, 2021 Author Share Posted December 27, 2021 Thanks @vvwse4. They are really good photos. On seeing those it confirms to me what a brilliant job @Gene K has done. I still have the centre piece to put on top of the main plate but I am just getting a nice tidy edge where it is glued on. Interestingly the Brit ones had a lot of PEC type filler all around these plates, but on other photos they look very clean like these ones you posted. Here is where I am at And have started working on the structure inside the Aux air doors... Cheers Anthony LSP_Kevin, GMK, vvwse4 and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted December 27, 2021 Author Share Posted December 27, 2021 3 minutes ago, Gene K said: The reason for "multiple revisions" was that as I was preparing the Silhouette cutter files, my references, including "scale" drawings from multiple sources like this, didn't quite match available after-market sets in various scales (Nautilus, Hypersonic, GTR, Flying Leatherneck, and ScalePhantomPhixer), nor photos like those in the excellent DACO book Rick highlighted above, nor with Mr. Google. I also scaled up scans from the 1/72 Airfix Brit Phantom as well as the 1/48 Zukei Mura F-4S for comparison. The most useful drawings were those posted from Navy F-4 Phantom Tech Manuals as shown here. There are some good discussions on LSP concerning the straps here and here, as well as in Chuck's outstanding build from 2013. Thanks, Anthony, for sharing your modeling perfection in such great detail. Just amazing!! Gene K No....thank you Gene. You have really found some interesting details and your perseverence to get them accurate has really paid off!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted December 27, 2021 Author Share Posted December 27, 2021 On 12/26/2021 at 1:26 AM, DonH said: Looks great Anthony. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thanks Don! Hoe you are getting some good modelling time in over the Xmas/new Year holidays? On 12/26/2021 at 1:56 AM, easixpedro said: I love seeing big bolts like that on airframes. You know it means they’re no longer messing around. Like grabbing a breaker bar for the ol’ wrench. Engineering at its simplest. Cracks forming? Wings flexing? Bolt/pound a bunch of rivets on a really long strap of metal and call it good. she had enough thrust to overcome the parasitic drag, so add a few more bolts while you’re at it for good measure… Can’t wait to see it all under primer. Hope you’re having a Merry Christmas! -Peter Peter, I have to admit I love seeing things that should be on a Tank rather than an airframe too. Means they ment business when they fitted them...LOL love your description! Cheers Anthnoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattcour Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Nice job with the reinforcement plates! Derek B and Anthony in NZ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted December 27, 2021 Author Share Posted December 27, 2021 1 hour ago, mattcour said: Nice job with the reinforcement plates! Thanks very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiZac Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 That looks brilliant, bravo Ant and Gene! Anthony in NZ and Derek B 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Always good to see more updates on this one, Anthony. Great work as always! Kev Anthony in NZ, Derek B and IainM 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 9 hours ago, KiwiZac said: That looks brilliant, bravo Ant and Gene! Thanks Zac, and of course thanks Gene from me also! 9 hours ago, LSP_Kevin said: Always good to see more updates on this one, Anthony. Great work as always! Kev Thanks Kev, I am pleased you are hanging in there with this with me! Quick snap before bed. Tonights efforts are sorting the thrust line of the Spey and setting the engine section angles and heights. But I soon realized the intake trunking went too far back and I had to get my cutter out and move them forward about 8mm. This took the fan front to the correct station frame. How I got the station frame wrong I dont know, but its right now and the engine fronts look much better further forward. And Kerry's lovely CAD engines are more visible. Anyhoo.... off to bed LSP_Kevin, scvrobeson, Squizzy 78 and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scvrobeson Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Anthony, I know this may be late to the party, but I know that Masterclub and Meng both offer various sized bolts/rivets in their lines. Could produce the look you want instead of having to go through the work of sanding plastic rod to look like a bolt. Matt Anthony in NZ and Derek B 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted December 29, 2021 Author Share Posted December 29, 2021 11 hours ago, MARU5137 said: Anthony Super updates and those reinforcement plates are perfect ! ....impressive workmanship and you are showing us all some fantastic methods and techniques. STUNNING looking conversion so far. May your New Year Be Happy, Healthy and a prosperous one. Be safe. Thank you so much! Love your thoughts and encouragement 1 hour ago, scvrobeson said: Anthony, I know this may be late to the party, but I know that Masterclub and Meng both offer various sized bolts/rivets in their lines. Could produce the look you want instead of having to go through the work of sanding plastic rod to look like a bolt. Matt Thanks, I thought of that Matt, but shipping to NZ from the US is almost impossible right now and I cant wait.....I probably should have. Please somebody stop me! Most of this will barely be seen.... @Archer Fine Transfers you have me trapped in your vortex of products! Cheers Anthony Landrotten Highlander, patricksparks, Greg W and 9 others 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squizzy 78 Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Watching builds like this makes me start planning future builds, amazing work Anthony!!! Anthony in NZ and Derek B 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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