My F-4d Upgrade In 1/72nd Scale

[Archangel]

Here is another of my What Ifs. Its not what I consider the average kind of what if because its more what I would have liked to have painted on the side of my plane had I joined the Air Force and had the chance to fly. It started out life as a Monogram 1/72nd scale F-4D and since I had an extra one lying around I thought I'd get the thing finnished. I made up my owm markings using the decals from Superscale amd the ones from the 1/48th Airwolf kit which really do not belong on it anyway. I cut off the kits IR bump and replaced it with one from the Airfix 1/72 F-4A,B,C,D,E kit then added 2X 30MM Gun pods from the Hasagawa wepons set. Otherwise the kit is OOB and painted in the Egypt one scheme.

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[Archangel]

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[Brian da Basher]

That's one really mean. sleek looking F-4, Archangel!

Did you know you can stick the pics in your post by using the IMG button and copying/pasting the URL for your shots?

Brian da Basher

[Archangel]

No I didn't . I wasn't sure because i know how some sites are about posting pictures straight to the site. Next time I'll do that with the F/A-18 in the mottled camo I did. That one isn't really a what if since it is only a slight paint differance and not much else from real life.

The F-4s tail markings are AW the the serial 68-345 and the tail tip and canopy rails are painted in Testors Model Masters Anthricite Grey. Not sure if you can still buy that color but it is the one I used on my 1/48th Airwolf kit.  

[Rafael]

Archangel, I nearly missed this one!!

nice camo scheme, and if that's your avatar in that plane's side, boy, you scored big in decaling!!!    

Anyway, I can't wait either to see you mottled camo approach, and, when you're at it, would it be possible for you to show how to do it?

Thanks and congrats

Rafa

[Archangel]

Archangel, I nearly missed this one!!

nice camo scheme, and if that's your avatar in that plane's side, boy, you scored big in decaling!!!    

Anyway, I can't wait either to see you mottled camo approach, and, when you're at it, would it be possible for you to show how to do it?

Thanks and congrats

Rafa

Thank you very much. The camo scheme for my F-4D is really not much different then the ones used on most of them right before they were retired. The only differance is where I chose to make the vut as it were between the Light Gull Gray  and the Gunship Gray. Most F-4s have the line going all the way even with the canopy like this one and it's more rounded.



While the one I chose to do is closer to what I have seen on RF-4C Phantoms.



Most of the weapons on My F-4 were painted in the newer low visability paint jobs for the Aim-9's and Aim-7s that I have seen on F-15's and some other Air Force planes. The GEPOD 30mm guns from the Hasagawa Weapons set were painted Gunship gray to match the plane and not white like in  the instractions. The Decal is just like my Avatar since I took the avatar from an Airwolf website and the decal is from the 1/48th scale AMT/ERTL Airwolf kit which as I said has no reason to be on the helicopter since it was only basically a very Dark Greenish Black and white color. On TV it shows up closer to Testors Model Masters Anthricite Gray.

The camo on my F/A-18 Hornet is really quite an old trick and easy to do. I painted the whole plane Testors Light Gull Gray and let it set for a day. Then  I found a old sponge with alot of open holes and then dipped it lightly into some Testors Dark Gull Grey and dabbed it onto the upper surface of the plane. I was trying to replicate the weathering that many of us see on current US Navy Jets and since I didn't have an airbrush and no one I talked to had done one yet. I tried my best at duplicatins the pattern. I next cut another piece from the same sponge at a different location and dabbed that into some Testors Light Ghost Gray over the top of the Dark Gull Gray. What I ended up with was something closer to WWII Luftwaffe Camoflage and not what you see on modern jets.  

[Archangel]

That's one really mean. sleek looking F-4, Archangel!

Did you know you can stick the pics in your post by using the IMG button and copying/pasting the URL for your shots?

Brian da Basher

What I should have done with it after I realized it was to just stick to one GEPOD on the center line. Those two hanging from the Sidewinder rails would make it hard for anyone to get it off almost any runway with out alot of help.