Vince Pedulla

Closet cleanout sale I have recently moved to a smaller home and have to get rid of a few cherished kits and other accessories. All models are complete and un-started, unless otherwise noted please read the description. I accept Paypal ONLY and shipping is included with all prices to US locations. International shipping will be a cost to you by whatever means you desire. Contact at: modelerv@gmail.com Feel free to contact me with any questions! Zoukei Mura 1/32 A-1H Skyraider kit with many extras!! This is the huge Sandy kit from ZM, I just don’t have room for it anymore!

MOVING SALE All kits are complete unless otherwise noted. Please contact by email-first come, first served. Payment by Paypal only! Shipping will be at cost USPS Priority Mail unless you want a different delivery service. North America ONLY! (Sorry, Ive been burned!) contact me at vpedulla@cfl.rr.com 1/48th scale Revell AR-196 seaplane-complete $30.00 1/32 Profimodeller AR-196 Buggy 32061-Resin/wood wheeled trolley for the German Seaplane $35.00 BOTH KITS FOR $60.00 1/48th sale Revell (Hasegawa) AR 234C-3 kit 4502-complete- includes Montex mask set 48087 and 48007. $35.00 1/48th

CLOSET CLEAN OUT SALE-UPDATE 4/20/14 All kits are complete unless otherwise noted. All prices are without shipping, which will be charged at cost to your location. Shipping to North America ONLY unless you contact me first. Paypal is preferred, or contact me for other options. Kits will be shipped upon receipt of payment. Insurance is optional at cost, your call. Kits are set aside by time & date of email, payment expected within two days unless other arrangements made. I will post updates as needed. Happy Shopping!! Vince Pedulla www.modelerv.com vpedulla@cfl.rr.com _________

CLOSET CLEAN OUT SALE All kits are complete unless otherwise noted. All prices are without shipping, which will be charged at cost to your location. Shipping to North America ONLY unless you contact me first. Paypal is preferred, or contact me for other options. Kits will be shipped upon receipt of payment. Insurance is optional at cost, your call. Kits are set aside my time & date of email, payment expected within two days unless other arrangements made. I will post updates as needed. Happy Shopping!! Vince Pedulla www.modelerv.com vpedulla@cfl.rr.com ________________________

I was going to make the old joke about "a real plane superimposed"...but... Seriously, it does look real! A great model with depth and presentation! Well done!

This is a great kit...enjoy! I'm on my second one of what will be four models. Vince Pedulla ModelerV Studios www.modelerv.com

Creating an Academy F-4J...The Build Log Steps 7, 8 & 9 Now that the fuselage halves are attached, I combined steps 7, 8 & 9 into one big step. I had already essentially finished part of step 7 when I attached the intakes to the fuselage before joining the halves. If you are modelling a late F-4J, or an F-4N or S, open the small holes inside the intakes to attach the "shoulder" ECM parts. They were not used for this project, but will be for my later F-4 N & S projects. Onto the Rhino's nose...Use part G-33 & K-32, this is known as the "clean" nose. Part K-32 is the housi

Creating an Academy F-4J...The Build Log Step Six Here's where the bird starts to look like a Phantom. However, there are a few areas you need to be careful with. There are very fine mold seam lines running the length of the upper fuselage, a relic of the slide molding process. They run from the nose section, through the cockpit ledges, and along the fuselage to about halfway between the top and intake bulges. Not difficult to remove, and much easier than cleaning up a fuselage-half seam line. I used a curved X-Acto blade to carefully scrape along the length, followed by light sandi

Creating an Academy F-4J...The Build Log Parts Four & Five These steps mainly involve the intakes, fans, and afterburner cans and exhausts. Pretty straight forward with no major modifications, save one!! Use the long afterburner cans, parts O-6, not the short cans, parts O-3. The F-4J was equipped with the same engines and afterburners as the F-4E Phantom. The intakes have little molding tabs on the interior edges, be sure to remove these! Also, the mating surfaces between the wings and forward fuselage are...nearly non exisent. I added three small tabs with stryene stock. The

Creating an Academy F-4J...The Build Log Steps Two and Three These steps involve the main landing gear wells and legs and wing parts. No major fit problems here, but the legs feature very delicate parts, so great care must be taken both in removal from sprues and when cleaning up. I recommend gluing the wheel well parts together and then immediately gluing them to the inside of the lower wing. They are very fiddly, and it helps to align the parts by using the lower wings. Don't forget the air brake interiors. Odd, the plastic is a bit more "flashy" than I would expect from a new kit.

Creating an Academy F-4J...The Build Log Step 1B I decided to add a bit of wiring detail to the RIO's instrument panel and the area behind his seat, using the DACO book as reference and simple solder and electrical wires for the cabling. I later filled the gap between the parts there. I also added a small ledge with plastic stock where the rear wall of the True Details cockpit lines up, for support. A few more small resin details and the cockpit's construction was complete! The only plastic parts Iused were the rudder pedals, although the plastic cockpit is pretty decent. It all

Creating an Academy F-4J...The Build Log Step One A So...Step one involves the cockpit, and the F-4D kit properly depicts an Air Force version, which is markedly different from the Navy version. It might be possible to modify the kit parts to create an F-4J pit, as most of the Navy parts are there, but I decided to use the True Details F-4J resin parts. This is a former KMC kit, and while not as sharp as, say, Aires, is still very nice and a real bargain! It was made for the old Monogram kit, so will require some modding. I started by assembling the kit parts to use as a reference. The

Greetings all, Let me start by saying...I LOVE the Phantom! This was THE plane of my youth. I lived near MacDill AFB and would see the big, three color birds roaring overhead all the time. When I was in the Civil Air Patrol we would be allowed on base. I would see the big planes (probably F-4Es) lined up in the tarmac, and if we were lucky, see them taking off or landing. I even saw one of the last Thunderbird's shows before they transitioned to the T-38. I built many models of this airplane as a kid before I began building armor. The release of the Academy kit sparked this love again...

I wish I had built half that! Well done and excellent models! Vince

That's awesome info. I was stressing a bit on trying to hollow those out. Thanks Scott! Vince