F-4K/M FVS aka VG Brit toom

[deathjester]

Wonderful work Sir

[Gondor]

Yeap the APR volume with the FVS gives a load by pylon breakdown and I was surprised to see it was two 600 gallon tanks rather than 300, one of the problems with the data is that most of the drawings and artwork and models show it clean to show off the lines, but I needed to show it could match its fixed wing older brother and exceed it.

Larger tanks to make up for less internal volume for fuel due to the wing being in the fuselage rather than under it perhaps?

What did you use for the main undercarriage bays and legs?

Gondor

[Thorvic]

I'm not all that sure about less internal fuel as there is a fuselage plug and the wings were wet. The performance figures show a greatly improved CAP endurance although part of that is due to the more efficient loiter time by sweeping the wings forward.

The main bays were scratch built from plastic card as I built them onto the floor pan and slid them into the fuselage, as for the legs I think I eventually cut down the F-14 ones that I had robbed the wings from. Its was more trial and error once the painting was done, in hindsight I probably should have worked out and refined the main gear bay and legs during build but the focus was more on if the build concept would work or not !.

Now I know it can be done and how to do it so I know how to do another one at some stage.