My Late Falklands Entry............

Scooterman · July 10, 2007, 06:02:19 PM

In 1/72, Revell F-4F kit. Weapons from the stash. Colors all Model Master. Decals I think Aztek or Aerocalcs. Nice kit but I couldn't get a final dullcoat no matter what I used. Hell with it, it's one of my favs.

Enjoy!

Scooterman · July 10, 2007, 06:03:11 PM

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Scooterman · July 10, 2007, 06:04:09 PM

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Scooterman · July 10, 2007, 06:06:29 PM

her bottom

Scooterman · July 10, 2007, 06:08:27 PM

Topsides

Shasper · July 10, 2007, 06:16:56 PM

Sharp! Those yellow "areas" (

) really do the trick!

Shas B)

Rafael · July 10, 2007, 09:36:28 PM

Strange, but very attractive camo scheme!!
Somehow it makes the airplane look very "Phantom"

Rafa

Scooterman · July 10, 2007, 10:34:07 PM

The yellow areas are ID bands. During the real Falklands action, the bands were applied to the Skyhawks and Daggers because in planform, both could be confused for a Harrier. Yellow was first used but was found to be to close to the underlaying camo so a vivid turquoise was applied over the yellow. I couldn't find a match for the turquoise in my colors so I went with the yellow.

Of course in my scenario the ID bands were added so not to confuse the Argie F-4Es with the Royal Navy F-4Ks!!!

Damian2 · July 11, 2007, 02:11:31 AM

AWESOME!!!!

I love the camo on the F-4. IMHO F-4s look at their best when dolled up in camos not based on the grey scale...

ysi_maniac · July 11, 2007, 05:12:37 AM

Beau Beast indeed. She could make Royal Navy task really difficult.

cthulhu77 · July 11, 2007, 06:26:34 AM

I can see why it is one of your favourites!

Nice work, yep, that would scare the heck out of an attacking force.

Archibald · July 11, 2007, 08:32:57 AM

Cool! And, even better, this was nearly real world!

When in 1965 time come of replacing Meteor mk.4s and F-86F, FAA list was as follow

- F-100 Super sabre (too old)
- F-4 Phantom (what they wanted, but USA disagree)
- F-5 Unexpensive, but performances were too low
Drakken, Mirage IIIE, Lightning... the Mirage IIIE won, only to be slaughtered by SHARs in 1982...

Brian da Basher · July 11, 2007, 01:10:48 PM

Wow that's one real sharp bit of modelling there Scooterman! I love the camo and the ID bands! Wicked!

Brian da Basher

Martin H · July 11, 2007, 02:35:33 PM

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- F-100 Super sabre (too old)

Hmm and there a story that the FAA looked at Deploying its remaining F-86's to port stanley during the punch up. So not that Old lol.

Stunning Toom Scooter.

elmayerle · July 11, 2007, 07:11:00 PM

QuoteCool! And, even better, this was nearly real world!

When in 1965 time come of replacing Meteor mk.4s and F-86F, FAA list was as follow

- F-100 Super sabre (too old)
- F-4 Phantom (what they wanted, but USA disagree)
- F-5 Unexpensive, but performances were too low
Drakken, Mirage IIIE, Lightning... the Mirage IIIE won, only to be slaughtered by SHARs in 1982...

It depends on what version of the F-100 we're talking about. If they went with the proposed Spey-powered version that NAA studied, that could be quite capable.