1/72 Esci F-4E Phantom II

by Jorge Beleña "Yoryi"

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Hello everybody, I'm back with my second contribution to ARC. This 1/72 F-4E Phantom II is the old kit from Esci.  It has been painted with Gunze and Tamiya acrylic paints and is my first experience using an airbrush.  The model has been made out of the box with the only exception of the seatbelts which are made from scratch.

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The Esci's kit is well detailed, it has raised panel lines and some optional parts for different F-4 models.  The only disappointment is the cockpit detailing: just the seats (not too bad ones), joysticks and decals for the instrument panels.  It has also a few  gaps in the seams, but nothing you can't solve with some putty.

The paint job was the more difficult part, I had to remove all the paint due to a little accident with a Revell spray and restart the whole painting.  I used water colours instead of oils to mark the panel lines and pastels to make the dirt effects.

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The scheme represents an aircraft from the USAF 3rd TFW, based on Phillipines.

For more pics of my models please visit my web site Yoryi (puntocom), and if you want to see the step by step construction process of this kit you can visit this spanish forum: http://maquetas.foros.st.

Greetings from Spain!

Jorge

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Photos and text © by Jorge Beleña "Yoryi"