F4E Revell 1/32 Circa 1975

[smokeriderdon]

I have decided to half shelve the 141 as I am just not feeling it. So I pulled this one out of my stash in the storage unit. I built this baby back in the 70s when it was a new release. I snagged this one from Ebay. I purchased Legends resin cock pit set. It cost more than model. LOL I have removed the casting blocks and have started painting. When some good progress is made, I will post more.

 

[Quaralane]

That is going to be one BIG Phantom

 

[WebbyNZ]

Nice, I have one of these old Revell phantoms in the stash so will be keeping an eye on this.
The resin looks good

 

[smokeriderdon]

OK, so havent been doing a lot of model work, but I have made some progress. After the fiasco I had ordering some PE for the cock pit and remove before flight tags (see my thread Company review in the reviews section for the whole story) I got some from a different company:



I also picked up some resin wheels and metal landing gears:



I am about half done with the office, and I figured I should blue tack it all together then test fit it in the fuselage and see if I need to do any major carving:











So it appears that I wont have to sand anything off the tub. But I do have to dremel the edge of the cock pit frame so the resin side will show correctly. And I need to figure out how to get it in there nice and straight and stay that way until the glue sets.

Thats all for now.

 

[Quaralane]

Looks like it will be a nice addition

 

[smokeriderdon]

Lots of work done on the cock pit. Pretty much done. I had to make my own ejection handles as the resin ones had flash and trying to clean them resulted in breakage. This is what I managed...



And here is the mostly finished product. I am going to wait to add the back seat panel and side panels until I actually put it in the fuselage.





thats it for now. I think it turned ut half way decent.

 

[Quaralane]

Looking pretty good there

 

[smokeriderdon]

Thank you sir. After working on the 86, I wrestled with this hunk of resin trying to figure out just how in Gods name I am going to secure it in the fuselage. This is NOT going to be easy at all.