RF-4E Outback Recon

[Nick]

I've been working on this F-4 for a long time now and it's nearly ready for display.

It's the RF-4E kit from Revell which came with German Tiger meet markings. Not an easy one to build and I've learnt a lot from this, mainly about building and painting in stages. Not helped by me doing it in bits at a time over 6 years...

Story: The Australian Government ordered the F-111 in 1965 when it was the great wonder of aviation. Then numerous reports came out on how bad the F-111 was doing in tests and over Vietnam. After having to lease F-4 Phantoms to cover the delay in delivery, the Australian Government decided to cut their losses. The decision was made to stick with an F-4 strike fleet.
Eventually these would equip 4 squadrons of the RAAF including 6 models of the RF-4E used for recon.

Here's a work in progress preview of the RAAF RF-4E. Since this I've put the wheels and nose probe in place and the jamming pods are being painted.

[NARSES2]

Looking good Nick 

[kitbasher]

 

[AeroplaneDriver]

Very nice! 

[PR19_Kit]

That does look good Nick. 

I've always liked the RAAF scheme they carried on their F-4Es, and the RF version looks even better.

[Old Wombat]