1/48 Hasegawa F-4EJ or Phantom #166

Gallery Article by Shawn "phantom" Weiler on July 18 2013

 

 

This is my 166th Phantom on ARC. Built for the Phantom Group build of course. This is a Hasegawa F-4E modified into a F-4EJ (for the most part). When I opened the box of my F-4EJ kit I found the standard F-4E kit instead. So......I swapped out the E wings with a J kits wings from the stash. Cut off the fin from the E and glued on a "Kai" style fin from a RF-4 kit in the stash. Added a cockpit set from an unknown company and of course the colourful decals which are from Model Alliance. Like these decals. They give lots of really different options on their sheets.

 

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Instead of all Phantoms you get two Phantoms, one Japanese and one Turkish. Two colourful Hornets, one from Canada and one Australian. Then you get Marine One , a very colourful Sea King. Just wish the instructions gave more references here to know what I need to make the US presidents helicopter look the part.

The Japanese decals chosen are for a 302 squadron special. The colour of the weird green is direct and unmixed from Tamiya. Odd to me that this colour is even available. I have no idea when I will ever use it again.

Shawn "phantom" Weiler

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Photos and text © by Shawn "phantom" Weiler