BrettJ-Australia-

Please respond if you can help. I have used stars and bars on an earlier project and forgot to replace them. Hopefully you will be able to accept Paypal payment or make another arrangement? Thanks for looking.. Brett Johnson in Australia brettjblog@gmail.com

WOW Great model, I really like the paint. Must put this kit on my wishlist.

You can see here where the Phantom gets its looks from eh ? McDonnell continued with the development of this airframe and produced a far advanced version being the F3H-C which was basically an F3H-2 with a GEJ67 engine and larger wing. Further to that more development added another engine being two GEJ65 (F3H-G) so further airframe development and in the end without being specific and wasting much space here it is indeed the precursor to the all important F-4 Phantom. I really like this aircraft as you can see the linage and the resemblance between the to Aircraft.

This is magnificent to build, few points but it may be just me and my brutal construction but.. The kit basically falls together, the one main problem, which is minor, is the fit of the canopy, it seems to touch the top of the bang seat. an easy fix is to take a scraping off the bottom of the seat. At times you need three hands to put the fuselage halves together. Dont even think about leaving the burner can out when putting it together as I found out it is difficult to place it back inside and get the alignment right. I spent a good few hours on this problem short of prising the rear apart

Finally finished little over a month to complete. Added little details here and there and Furball Decals that are most excellent. Here is my rendition of an F3H-2M of VF-24,

That is a very nice clean job you have done there. it looks like a great addition to the display shelf. I like the subtle fading of the paint.

sorry wrong forum

Just to keep the thread alive, and realising I'm late to the paty I shall indulge. 9 F-86 sabre 1/48th ACADEMY 3 F-86 sabre 1/72nd 6 F-86D sabredog 1/48th ROG/MON/PROMOD 12 JU-88/ 188 1/48th 4 F-15E 3x 1/48 1x 1/32 16 F-16, All types A/B/C/D/etc 148th (Has) 2 B-1B Lancer 1/48th. 6 FA/18 A/B/C/E 1/48th 4 A-4 / Scooters 1/48th 4 F-84E/G Tamiya 1/48th 4 Bf-110 MON 1/32 (maybe never build them) several duplicate kits of 1/48th Aircraft Non air craft limited to 17 Nissan R34 GTR 1/24th (went through a Skyline Phase) That's it for now !!

Thankyou Pollie and Unang. @ Unang the After market list as follows. Aires cockpit Aires Wheelbay set CMK radar CMK electronic bay CMK Engine box Eduaed SA etch set (only used parts for canopy and canopy latches) Quick boost FOD covers Eagle strike Decals. In addition to the resin bits I added extra wiring to both engine and elex bays decals fine though trouble is they offer only one side profile. The rest is up to the modeller to research. Pretty poor in my opinion. I shall add some in program pics for ya when I find them. Regards Brett.

Long time still going as usual work and life getting in the way of my hobby. Nearly done now. Sorry for big photos.

Citadel ashes work for me i like to use the serpia tone. if not happy washes out in water.

Looks great Where I stand Andrew, what difficulties did you run into ?? You gonna bring it down to the meeting ? Regards, Brett.

How Many Aircraft have the word Thunder in the name?? Would it be a good Group build? here are some I could recall F-84 Thunderjet F-84F Thunderstreak RF-84F Thunderflash P-47 Thunderbolt A-10 Thunderbolt II F-105 Thunderchief New to me are.... IAF F-15I Ra'am (Thunder) i didnt know this meant thunder !!! JF-17 Thunder (chengdou aircraft, liscence built FC-1 Xiaolong in Pakistan) Anymore to add to the list??? cheers, Brett.

OK I am in this is right up my Alley !!! Umm will start with an F-86D.. monogram... markings ? not sure but i have plenty.. Hoping to add to it with Academy F-86F-40 we will see ... Happy modelling Brett.

Excellent clean build very impressive..