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Phabulous Phantom
Jessie_C
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted: Friday, July 03, 2015 - 06:40 AM UTC
It isn't very often that Aeroscale features two models from the same contest, but since this one tied for first, there's a very excellent reason to give it the spotlight.

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!
warreni
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South Australia, Australia
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Posted: Friday, July 03, 2015 - 07:23 AM UTC
Can anyone show me a picture of this aircraft showing me those prominent panel lines as I can't find one?
Cheers
Warren
chris1
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Auckland, New Zealand
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Posted: Friday, July 03, 2015 - 08:55 AM UTC
Hi Jim,
To paraphrase another well known contributor"you can never have enough Phantoms"

FWITW I voted for for this..This or the B/N is on my wish list,one day hmmmmmm one day.

Congrats on a wonderful build.

Cheers



Chris
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Grip84
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Florida, United States
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Posted: Friday, July 03, 2015 - 09:45 AM UTC
"Can anyone show me a picture of this aircraft showing me those prominent panel lines as I can't find one?"






Cheers
jfmajor60
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Pennsylvania, United States
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Posted: Friday, July 03, 2015 - 05:00 PM UTC
Thank you Jessica and others! for your consideration and the feature, much appreciated
SaxonTheShiba
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United States
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Posted: Friday, July 03, 2015 - 06:23 PM UTC
Awesome looking Rhino, Jim. This photo here is an excellent case study in the weathering of F-4's. Yes, they do get nasty.

Best wishes,

Ian

Joel_W
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Posted: Sunday, July 05, 2015 - 02:47 AM UTC
Scott,
There are plenty of pictures of operational F-4s with visible panel lines, plus faded paint, dirt, grime, etc. Here's 3 pictures including one of the bottom:







And here' my Academy 1/48 scale F-4B. As you can see the panel lines are also quite visible.



Joel
Joel_W
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Posted: Sunday, July 05, 2015 - 03:50 AM UTC
James,
Just a rock solid build. One just can't have enough Phantoms.
Joel
Grip84
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Posted: Sunday, July 05, 2015 - 11:04 PM UTC
Joel, I agree with you, that's what the pictures I posted were intended to demonstrate. I was responding to Warren's post questioning the dark panel lines. The quotation marks should have been obvious, I would have thought. Guess I should have been more explicit.

Your pics show it even better than mine, but of course the last one of the F-4 underside doesn't count as it is a British bird (that's intended as levity).

BTW: nice kit yourself, well done.

Cheers,

Scott
jfmajor60
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Posted: Monday, July 06, 2015 - 02:14 AM UTC
BTW Grip I like your avatar!!
Grip84
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Posted: Monday, July 06, 2015 - 07:34 AM UTC
Thanks. Yours is cool too.

Disssss-smissed!
Joel_W
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Posted: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 - 06:16 PM UTC
Scott, my apologies for getting the posts and names confused. I claim old age and poor eyesight. BTW, Hogan Heros was one of my favorite tv shows. Joel
Grip84
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Posted: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 - 03:00 AM UTC
No worries, Joel. It was a good thing, your pics were better than mine to make the point.

"I see nuh-thing!"
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