Subject: Re: F-4B (1/32 SCALE)
From: "Steve Bamford" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:52:38 -0700

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

Live like there is no tomorrow;
Love like you have never been hurt; and
Dance like no one is watching!

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: [email-masked] 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:09 PM
  Subject: F-4B (1/32 SCALE)

  Some images of an F-4B for the gallery. 

  (See attached file: F-4B.jpg)(See attached file: F-4B1.jpg)(See attached 
  file: F-4B3.jpg)(See attached file: F-4B4.jpg)(See attached file: 
  F-4B5.jpg)(See attached file: F-4B6.jpg) 

  Tamiya 1/32 F-4B (VF-111 Sundowners) 

  Originally this was Tamiya's 1/32 F-4J which has been converted into an 
  earlier F-4B. Firstly I had to discard the upper wing sections, saving the 
  flaps and slats and rebuild a new "flat" wing from 
  scratch, including re-scribing and drilling the rivets to match the rest of 
  the airframe. This had to be done becuase the F-4J like all other F-4's in 
  this scale have the bulged upper and lower wings 
  which have to be removed to replicate an accurate flat wing F-4B. The sides 
  of the fuselage had to be made good where the removal of the large bulged 
  sections left a gap between wing and fuelage. 
   New burner cans were added from an old Revell kit with some extra 
  detailing to represent the earlier J79 GE-8 short afterburners opposed to 
  the J79 GE-10 long afterburners supplied with the kit. 
  The AN/APA-157 CW Illuminator under the nose was created from a 1/72 Mig 19 
  drop tank with some re-shaping, the tail top front and rear mounted APR30 
  Radar Homing/Warning System were 
  built from scratch. Some moving around of components plus scratch building 
  to represent an accurate F-4B cockpit, plus Paragon seats. 
  Painted and weathered to represent the CAG aircraft of VF-111 (Sundowners) 
  aboard USS Coral Sea during the last weeks of their 6 month combat tour in 
  South East Asia during 1972. This particular 
  aircraft had new drop tanks for the last weeks of the tour after droping 
  the originals over Haiphong during a CAP mission. 

  (Embedded image moved to file: pic03010.pcx) 

  Regards 
  Paul Cherriman