F-4 K Royal Navy Phantom Revell Retro-Modelling

1
January 20, 2018
Vintage box.
2
January 20, 2018
Parts.
3
January 20, 2018
Sprues.
4
January 20, 2018
Decals.
5
January 21, 2018
Instruction sheet.
6
January 21, 2018
Instruction sheet.
7
January 21, 2018
Instruction sheet.
8
January 21, 2018
Instruction sheet.
9
January 20, 2018
Retro-tools.
10
May 31, 2018
Retro-information.
11
May 31, 2018
More retro-information.
12
January 21, 2018
Wings being glued together ... fit is quite good.
13
January 21, 2018
The basic cockpit will be left as is ... and has been painted as I did at that very time ... black panels and silver dials.
14
January 24, 2018
Nose halves glued together and cockpit in place. Note flash and blisters on Sparrows.
15
January 24, 2018
Carefully gluing nose and fuselage inch by inch.
16
January 29, 2018
Those "knobs" are .... afterburner cans 😉
17
January 29, 2018
Front end being very carefully glued together
18
January 29, 2018
Inch by inch front fuselage is being glued together.
19
January 29, 2018
More progress.
20
January 29, 2018
Done ... fit is much better than I expected.
21
January 31, 2018
Wings being glued to fuselage.
22
January 31, 2018
Port wing fit is quite good.
23
January 31, 2018
Starboard wing fit is not so good , will be dealed with flash from the kit parts.
24
January 31, 2018
Front underfuselage fit is not good ... a rather big gap must be catered for
25
January 31, 2018
More or less the same situation here ...
26
January 31, 2018
Undersides ,,, there's an ugly big gap .... Fuselage misalignemet is being dealed with a part number tab from the sprues ... This very gap will be hiden by the undercarriage door.
27
February 5, 2018
Lower nose filled with white enamel paint ...
28
February 5, 2018
on both sides ...
29
January 31, 2018
Part numbers tabs are being used to cover small gaps between the undersides and the front fuselage.
30
February 5, 2018
Not so bad ......
31
February 28, 2018
Some gaps have been covered with enamel paint.
32
February 28, 2018
Some raised panel lines have gone away ... but I don't care.
33
February 28, 2018
This gap will be difficult to cover ,,, let's hope gloss paint will help.
34
February 28, 2018
Undersides primed .... not so bad.
35
February 28, 2018
Nose primed ... much better than I expected ...
36
February 28, 2018
Splitter plates and inside of air intakes painted with deep gloss blue enamel. I didn't remember gloss enamels took ages to dry .... God bless acrylic paints ! 😉
37
April 15, 2018
Undersides finished in gloss white.
38
April 15, 2018
After quite a lot of trimming fit is rather acceptable.
39
May 5, 2018
Bleaching old yellowed decals ... let's see how it turns out ....
40
May 31, 2018
Some progress. As you can see , accuracy is not my aim .... I'm painting it as I'd have done in the early seventies.
41
June 24, 2018
Decalling completed. Decals were restored with Micro Decal Film. Good Stuff. That "smear" on the wing is a reflection on the flash.
42
June 24, 2018
I didn't manage to remove the yellowing on these old decals.
43
February 23, 2021
44
February 23, 2021
45
February 23, 2021
46
February 23, 2021
47
February 23, 2021
Except foe the yellowing , decals weren't that bad
48
February 23, 2021
49
February 23, 2021
Calling it done ... another retro-project finished

Comments

1 November 2024, 11:37 -

Album info

This is my proposal for fighting against Advanced Modeller Syndrome :
Retro-modelling
I enjoyed very much my retro Su-7 ... here you can check it :
scalemates.com/profi..s&album=32182#42
So I've just taken another vintage kit from my stash and started another retro-project. This kit is very very old (1965 moulds) : basic cockpit, no wheel well details, rotating wheels, and of course , raised panel lines and lots of rivets.. I'm building it as much as I would have done in the early seventies, i.e. brush painted with Humbrol enamels, no putty and no wet-sanding. Internal details will be painted with acrylics ,,, I don't want to spend a lot of money on Humbrol tins. 😉
Let's see how it turns out ....

Decalling has been done .... Old decals have been resotred with Micro Decal Film, but I've not been able to get rid of the "yellowing" of the film.

Now calling it done

Retro-modelling F-4 K British Phantom Revell

49 images

1:72

Completed

Scratchbuilt

All albums

View all albums »