Craig Baldwin

Seemingly a bit anti-climatic for me as I enjoyed all the previews. I'm afraid there will be nothing to surprise me when I open the box. Well done FineMolds, your stature in the aircraft modeling world will be heightened significantly when these hits the shelves outside Nihon. I've always admired the Japanese hobby industry and their commitment to quality.

This is what google translate said for me about the image "Finally, the draft of the F-4EJ Kai has been submitted. I don't think there will be any slapstick corrections and drafts this time, so it seems that the 15-day shipment of the F-4EJ Kai will go as planned along with the 8-day shipment of the F-4EJ. Incidentally, the monthly model art @ModelArtInc released today. Then, in addition to advertising, the editor-in-chief's visit to our company and an interview with the president are posted.".

Like that old adage "Go big or stay home".

This also from Finemolds "It's crazy, it's pretty tempered. Once this is done, the release date can be officially announced". Sorry, for some reason reason my usual links are broken on this message board.

"New Product F-4 EJ's decal production in progress! The Bangashira is in charge of the decal manuscript. I'm going to put a two-dimensional stuff on a-dimensional surface, so I'm actually putting it on and checking it out." FineMolds caption For those of us that still use kit decals.

Nice front view. Very thin intake parts and they've included the supports behind the splitter.

I can only assume you have this part?

Going back and checking the parts layout seemingly optimistic viewing, that they have the E version vertical tail grouped with the forward fuselage parts. Besides the EJ and EJkai vertical tails as separate sprues. Again looking as though at least plans to manufacture the short nose versions. Apologies if this was covered already.

Nice detail with caption "The F4 pitot tube is finished. Now it's bag packing work."

More teasers. I'm not sure what is supposed to be the item in the second image.

Leave a couple for the rest of us Gene!!!

Dedicated long nose sprue.

Just one pic I found of interest today, wing tank half. Sorry I don't have the knowledge of others to comment on tooling etc.

Another view of the wing bottom, a new image posted by FineMolds.

Which I'm sure will whip up the speculation. Have we ever seen this many mould progress shots of a future release before?

More great images from the Fine Molds Twitter feed. Assume what you will.

Great shot of a C2 but not sure how to create image direct here. https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/72060_1589679782.jpg

Beautiful eye popping detail. And to think we get cockpits of larger scale kits with clumsy looking panels from some kit manufacturers. Seeing the lower wing section with the AIM 7 stations, I am not totally convinced they will do an RF version but doesn't mean I am not praying hard for it. Thanks for the upload Gene.

Curious why the nose gear leg is included on that sprue. I thought only the B, J, N and S version had a different strut. Leaving out any discussion of the K and M, a topic in itself.

Update from Fine Molds with this video, starting at the 1:40.00 mark. Seems little is spared to make this a great kit. https://tinyurl.com/ydgdmc6e

I feel I would just keep repeating myself with great compliments of your modelling skills. Please keep up your motivation with this Deuce. Wishing you and your great country well in these turbulent times.

One of the few websites in my bookmarked sites that shows this on Firefox in the address bar. Anyone have an explanation for the padlock symbol with the red cross through it?

@GeneK I would be more interested in what was the lowest you ever went in an F-4? Any hijinks like this???

Gene, part #13 you mention looks like #19 but it would have to involve the engines in some way cut I can't quite figure it. Yes only one. I will see if a slatted version is on the horizon and I have too many projects on my list. In this picture it would seem to me the airbrake wells would be moulded closed, you can see the shadows on the mould of where they should be. Definitely an opening for aftermarket parts manufacturers.

Seems they are not shy about sharing the progress, good news for us. Two types of instrument panels provided. I pre-ordered mine yesterday.