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Revell 1/32nd scale Phantom
DougCohen
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Posted: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 11:54 PM UTC
starting a 1/32nd scale Revell Phantom, this is it so far.


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Posted: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 12:44 AM UTC
It's nice, but the wings don't whirl around. How are you going to deal with that?
DougCohen
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Posted: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 08:02 AM UTC
HA HA Jess I will be ok on the dark side for a build or two.
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Posted: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 08:31 AM UTC
That office looks great Doug, very nice detail work!

Cheers, D
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Posted: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 08:46 AM UTC
Hi Doug,

Looking good! Which 1/32 Revell "Double Ugly" is this?

Do I detect some Shep Paine scratch-'gizmology' on the cockpit sides?

That cockpit is beautiful! Painted or decals? And who needs to cage their AI, the pilot of GIB?
DougCohen
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Posted: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 10:15 PM UTC

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Hi Doug,

Looking good! Which 1/32 Revell "Double Ugly" is this?

Do I detect some Shep Paine scratch-'gizmology' on the cockpit sides?

That cockpit is beautiful! Painted or decals? And who needs to cage their AI, the pilot of GIB?


Thanks, this is the F-4F a pretty new kit and really very good detail is included, I did do some extra bits here and there, the IP,s are stock with just paint, and for some reason the AI's are not the same from front to back so I am guessing the pilot needs to cage it as it is still wondering with the power up.
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Posted: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 11:07 PM UTC
Very nice cockpit detailing. Will have to watch this one.

Gary
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Posted: Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 02:13 AM UTC
Doug,
I'll be following along for sure. Your cockpit really looks quite good.

Joel
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Posted: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 - 04:18 AM UTC
this kit goes together so well I am making a lot of progress


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Posted: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 - 04:20 AM UTC
I wanted to do pilots in the cockpit so I cast up some copies of the Tamiya Phantom crew, they are being modified to fit the Revell kit.

DougCohen
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Posted: Thursday, February 04, 2016 - 04:36 AM UTC
tubes and wires for aft IP

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Posted: Thursday, February 04, 2016 - 04:48 AM UTC
Okay Doug, now I am hankering for this model! So big and so modern for my tastes, but you are making it look soooo good.
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Posted: Thursday, February 04, 2016 - 11:27 AM UTC
Everything looks great so far! Love the guide rails for the ejection seats. It's such a huge bird in real life, I can't imagine ever finding space for it in this scale.

Gary
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Posted: Saturday, February 06, 2016 - 11:05 PM UTC
Doug,
Your aft cockpit detailing looks fantastic. I've seen this kit in person, and I can attest to it being huge.

I've already sold off all my 1/48 scale 2nd generation jets as I plan on stepping down to 1/72 scale for those. They just take up way to much of what room I have left without adding more display space.

Joel
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Posted: Sunday, February 07, 2016 - 05:42 AM UTC

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Everything looks great so far! Love the guide rails for the ejection seats. It's such a huge bird in real life, I can't imagine ever finding space for it in this scale.

Gary


getting closer and I did test fit it in my largest case and it barely fits to your point Gary but it is so cool in this scale.
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 07:58 AM UTC
for some reason the seats sit way too low in the cockpit so I added some short stilts to get the height correct.
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 11:17 PM UTC

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for some reason the seats sit way too low in the cockpit so I added some short stilts to get the height correct.


The "some reason" is that Revell unaccountably made the cockpit far too deep. Your solution is the simplest. The more accurate, and much more labour intensive solution is to saw about 2mm out of the sidewalls all around and then make it all fit seamlessly again. given that the error is almost invisible once the fuselage is buttoned up, hardly anyone bothers with that.
DougCohen
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Posted: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 - 01:51 AM UTC

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for some reason the seats sit way too low in the cockpit so I added some short stilts to get the height correct.


The "some reason" is that Revell unaccountably made the cockpit far too deep. Your solution is the simplest. The more accurate, and much more labour intensive solution is to saw about 2mm out of the sidewalls all around and then make it all fit seamlessly again. given that the error is almost invisible once the fuselage is buttoned up, hardly anyone bothers with that.


Oh well that splains it and I agree that it will be easier to do it this way. more progress soon.
DougCohen
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Posted: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 - 06:58 AM UTC
pilots and seats paint started, figured it would be easiest to just airbrush black for a good base coat.
DougCohen
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Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 07:21 AM UTC
working on the arms for the pilots, they were measured while in the cockpit to fit and then fleshed out.


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Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 12:22 AM UTC
Doug,

I'm really impressed on how you're modifying those figures.
Joel
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Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 02:24 AM UTC
Wow, that is an awesome way to modify figures! What did you use for the 'flesh'?

Gary
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Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 04:38 AM UTC
more work done on the pilots
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Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 10:07 PM UTC
Doug,
Outstanding, simply outstanding conversion work on those two figures.
Joel
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Posted: Saturday, February 27, 2016 - 07:26 AM UTC
pilots done and ready to go into the cockpit, the O2 mask hoses are from guitar strings, perfect ribbing


I put some clear epoxy on the visors to make them real glossy.

someone asked about my paint mix for the skin color on the necks , I use Reaper paint and for the flesh I used clotted red, white , and orange brown.
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