Subject: Re: 1/32 scale F-4
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Michael & Constanze Riedel" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 17:14:11 -0700

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

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

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  From: Michael & Constanze Riedel 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:57 PM
  Subject: 1/32 scale F-4

  Gallery Template #05

  "1/32 scale REVELL F-4F PHANTOM II" 

  by "SCOUT712"
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  A PHANTOM II again, sorry but I just can't help it. It is time again to say good bye to a good friend and fellow pilot of my squadron . He is going to transition to the EUROFIGHTER, and since he always bugged me to build him a model, I figured it would be a good idea to present him one during is farewell ceremony. My goal was to depict a typical dirty FW-71 "Richthofen" based jet in Flight

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  It is the well known REVELL 1/32 scale F-4F kit. It has it's well known deficiencies, but since I chose to depict it inflight, there were not so many modifications to be done. Of course the radome was shortened and brought int the right shape (actually the complete nose section in front of the canopy and the canopy itself is shaped wrongly, but that is not noticed at first glance), with that the gun muzzle had to be shortened for the same amount. The Intake trunks were shortened about 3,5 mm, the grills on top and bottom of the intake are actually from the TAMYIA F-4C/D.(a leftover from times when I cut them out to fit them on an own REVELL F-4, later I figured it is less work to just attach the whole intakes from TAMYIA to the REVELL F-4) All control surfaces were displaced to show the mighty RHINO in a left hand climbing turn. The left spoiler was cut out and the interior scratchbuilt. The left aileron is displaced a little bit upwards, which is normal on the F-4. The Cockpit received some minor mods. It is about 5 mm too deep (which is the same on all F-4 kit i have built so far (talking about the HASE and REVELL 1/72 scale kits). Crew is from TAMYIA, there poses where adjusted to have the pilot hold the stick ( which is displaced left aft, I know, that is geek like...) and throttle and the WSO having his hands on the ALE-40 controlls and grabbing a grip, since it is supposed to be a visuell engagement.

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  The centerline tank is already jettisoned since only the attachment below the rear lower fuselage is left. Armament consists of 4 AIM-9Li and 2 AIM-120B. While the kit Winders are pretty good the Slammers are totally wrong both in lenght and shape.( they are about 10mm too long like the missile bays on the jets fuselage, but I did not have time to shorten the AMRAAM bays so I just let them too long as well and readusted the fron wings of the missile a little bit forward so they are not over the speedbrakes, plus I sanded the thick part of the missiles body to match the rest of the missile)

  For all the light I used 2 component epoxy glue mixed with the color of the light ( or in case of the AIM-9s with some light grey, which gives the perfect look for the seekerheads). This glue perfectly sets in all positions you like to by it's own. All you have to do is put some gloss clear over it once it is dry since it stays a little bit sticky and attracts dust.

  For the paint I used REVELL enamels which where rubbed over with pastels after only one day of drying, to get the weatered effect. 

  All weatering was done with pastels except for the streaks on the aft part of the lower fuselage.

  The dark grey lines on the fuselage are done with pencil and depict the marks of the maintainance crews boot a very common sight on german F-4's

  Decals are from AirDoc. I have to say, that I am quite disappointed. They are quite complete very crisp and to my knowledge the only ones to depict a Norm90J F-4. But all the grey stecilling is way to light,´a mixture between dark and light ghost grey, while on the real jets they are mor like gunship grey. So they are very hard to see, thats why I chose to paint the walkways and the darkgrey lines of their edges as well. The little no step footmarks where taken from the Kit.

  Another happening I had was, that espesially the small stencils just did not stick, even though I used decal set and decal sol.

  Finally the jet was placed on 15 mm diameter acrylrods, which were pretty hard to find. To bend them around I just put them in the kitchen oven for 15 min at 160° Centgrade. The got soft like dough - easy going,thought that would would be the hard part.

  Our quadron badge is casted.

  Thats it, hope you like it.

  SCOUT

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