Looking good there Peter!

Very nice Peter. 56 was one of my dad's old squadrons, so always nice to see a Firebird

Don't forget to put them pics in the gallery!

Greetings,
These are the finished build photos of my F-4S Phantom. I've loaded the photos into the Campaign Gallery.


The kit wasn't hard to complete, it was OOB. I found the fit to be mostly good. The effort went into the Ferris camouflage scheme. Color choices were from the back of the box. A lot of time went into researching the Ferris scheme and VF-301. Thank you for this campaign and the builds here are an inspiration for me.
Regards,
FirstSergeant

Well done, great-looking bird! That Ferris scheme is very interesting, have to take a closer look at it myself.
Congratulations!

Peter,
Thank you for your kind words.
FirstSergeant

Nice job!

Thank you Neil. These are some very fine builds going on here. I'm enjoying this Campaign a lot. Great work!

Great build First Sergeant.
Good looking Phantom I think.

Martin

Thank you. I know, not what you expect of a Phantom. I wouldn't want to be the sheet metal specialist. The fuel tanks were matched to the scheme. That was some exact masking and hard to maintain. The scheme starts dark to light as you go across the aircraft. The underside is opposite. That is the reason the top of the fuel tanks are different than the top color. After a while the maintenance of the paint job became too much work. Airplanes began to look worn with new and old paint together.

Time to crack on with the last month of the campaign, so it's time for me to get painting! I had a bit of fun getting the Aires cockpit to fit, but got there after much sanding. Got the fuselage and wings together, with a little filling and sanding. Just got a coat of primer on today:


Inspired by a recent visit to Hendon RAF museum, I had decided on a full weapons load. This isn't possible "out of the box", as for reasons best known to Hasegawa and subsequently Revell, there are no Sidewinders with the kit. One quick order to Eduard Brassin later, and I now have the full set!

In other Phantom related news, I have acquired two of Fujimi's excellent 1/72 kits, namely the FG.1 (Silver Jubilee) and the F.3 Tiger, for the next Phantom campaign that rolls down the road.

Best of luck everyone!

I love me a Phantom "loaded for Bear"

So guys, less than a month left, how are we all getting on?

I'm at the fatal fill/mask/primer stage, where 95% of my stalled builds, well, stall. It always takes me a forcible act of will to get past this stage...

http://gallery3.kitmaker.net/data/500//natural_world_017.JPG

well heres my build for the campaign ive been away sick for a little while so I have not done any building. have week of on rest so I am gonna try and knock this out

Sascha(Ironowl)

well I am at the painting stage now should have a pic or two up soon. another few days and my Phantom should be done .

Ironowl

Hi.
Originally I was going to mask the Tiger but went with the decals after running out of time due to travel plans.

Very nice Richard! Don't forget to put your pictures in the gallery (link on p.1)

Sascha - looking forward to seeing some piccies

Everyone else - TWO WEEKS TO GO!!!!

have been trying to get pics downloaded but it wont let me ?
ill keep trying. am gonna paint a decal this weekend.

Ironowl

It might be a size issue. Try resizing your pictures to 800X600 and see if the server likes them.

Hi chums,
Some superb builds happening on here,
long time no posts real life gets in the way again ,pc problems, pics being lost

Well here we go
the pit

seats

a splash of paint

a tad of Alclad

let the monster task of decals begin!!,these went down lovely with Tamiya Mark Fit

panel washes


Hey Presto,an F-4B



I've loved building this kit and have just ordered another one as I've found a set of VF 102 decals in the spares box ,I keep going into my Tammy 1/32 J with "showtime 100" markings and the ton of extras and thinking mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Hope you like
Andy

Gorgeous Andy

http://gallery3.kitmaker.net/data/500/Phantom_Build_001_600x450_600x450_.jpg

heres the first pic

Ironowl

http://gallery3.kitmaker.net/showphoto.php/photo/403621/cat/500

thanks Jessica for the resize reminder.

Those are some nice Phantoms yall have built hope mine finishes up half as good.

Ironowl

We're getting there people!

I've spent the last week or so up to my eyeballs in masking tape, so not much of interest to show of that. Today I unmasked the beast, and here is where I'm at right now:




On to the metal work tomorrow, plus masking and painting the canopies, and with any luck I should be decalling at the weekend.

Cheers everybody, and good luck!

Sascha, if you put

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Looks like you, and Lee are in a race to beat the deadline. Any others out there close to finishing?