This actually was a farewell
present I did in 2001 for one of my squadron comrades of the 1st Squadron,
Fighterwing 72 "Westfalen" ( disestablished Feb. 1st 2002 ) It
features a F-4F of FW 72 converted to an ashtray since he used to smoke lots of
cigars. The kit was from Revell, built straight out of the box within 2 weeks
from conception to the finished model. It has been my first 1/32 scale
model and was not extremely detailed due to time constraints. In the rear
fuselage you can see the ashtray.
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Both external wing
tank tips were cut of and built the way that you could put them on and off
again. The left one ( as you can see ) got a cigar inside and the right on a
lighter. Yellow rescue arrows were applied to the tank tips, so he always should
have known the fastest way to get a hold of something for his lungs. The Sidenumber
which is represented with this model used to fly with FW 72. German
PHANTOM's are generally very heavily weathered, since they are painted flat
grey and the maintenance guys use to climb down the aircraft over the intakes,
wings and pylons, their boots leaving lots of black marks all over the
jet. I put his callsign and the name of his wife on the canopy with
pencil. Armament consisted only of a AIM-9L dummy and a FPR ( Flight
Profile Recorder ) on the right hand pylon as well as a ALQ-119GY ECM-pod in the
left forward AMRAAM bay. The top patch was the wing insignia of FW 72 and
the lower one the squadron emblem.
Michael
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