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Is the Revell Germany RF-4C nose accurate in shape.


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The Flightpath set is not tailored for the RF. It can be used but will ask for additional work.

 

Was the RF nose gear bay moved relatively to the E/F version? I don't know, just asking...

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Reading between the lines of your request @¿@ I would say you could get an RF-4C conversion from the Tamiya F-4C/D using the Revell Photo Phantom kit as donor.

 

Advantages over the Avionix/Black box conversion (which was based on the Revell parts)? Given that either requires the same surgery to the Tamiya fuselage, the Revell offers:

1/ RF-4C type NLG door

2/ pointy inner wing pylons

3/ interior bay detail

4/ cockpit parts

5/ plastic, not resin

6/ quite passable AN/ALQ-119 ECM and AN/ALE-38 bulk chaff pods

 

If you are actually going to build the Revell, then yes the nose is accurate so you could stick out of a 1/32 TAB-V shelter with the rest out of view.

 

Revell should revisit this kit with a new tool, correct canopy and it would be a gem.

 

Tony

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Nice builds Menelaos. You've clevery left the canopy hoods open to mask the otherwise ghastly canopy profile.

 

C'mon Revell, for a few hundred quid you could design a new set of canopy parts which would very positively transform the RF-4 (and F-4) kits!

 

Tony

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Nice builds Menelaos. You've clevery left the canopy hoods open to mask the otherwise ghastly canopy profile.

 

C'mon Revell, for a few hundred quid you could design a new set of canopy parts which would very positively transform the RF-4 (and F-4) kits!

 

Tony

yes Tony it's better to left them open, but seriously the shape isn't so wrong compared with the older Revell F-4s.

 

here s one of my F-4s with the canopies closed...

 

F-4_E-_HILL-front-links1.jpg

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