Now I finished my Canberra PR9 (final photos soon), I would like to share my current build, the Hasegawa F-4B Phantom II in 1/72 scale. I started this build long before the start of the very nice Fab Phantom campaign, so this build will be separate from that.
The build started at the annual Scale Model Challenge (a great show organised by the people of the Scale Model factory) when I and a fellow Dutch modeler bought this kit:
To enhance the detail of the cockpit, I bought very nicely detailed resin bangseats from Wolfpack and an Eduard PE set.
The next step was to close up the fuselage and add all necessary stuff to make a plane fly.
Due to sanding some detail was lost, like the fuel caps on top, which were re-scribed. Scribing was a first and it looks like that everything went well, except for one circle. I have some doubts about the depth of the scribed lines and I hope it doesn't disappear under the coat of primer/paint.
As the Hasegawa kit has no detail of an engine and all that you can see when looking in the intakes is a wall of plastic, I decided to add FOD covers to obscure the emptiness. I bought an Eduard set for this and the FOD covers are currently under construction.
Finally, as the title of this topic already indicated and for obvious reasons, I will build a Jolly Rogers F-4B. For this I use the extensive detail set from Double Ugly Decals. The decals come in a nice colourful booklet with profiles of the planes that can be build with the decals.
The mean machine that I am planning to build is shown on the bottom of the title page.
Jelger
