jonbryon

Here is my latest and final build for 2018: Hasegawa's 1/48 F-40E Warhawk in Brazilian markings from 1953. The decals are by FCM and are absolutely terrible. The paint is Mr Color 8 Silver. A full build article is at https://jonbryon.com/hasegawa-1-48-curtiss-f-40e-warhawk/. I am aware the area behind the rear canopy should probably be silver. Comments welcome and thanks for looking. Jon

He must be recently out of stock as I ordered one last Wednesday and it's on its way. From experience I'd keep checking and he'll have it again soon (except for the Do17 tail which is permanently out of stock and which I REALLY WANT!). 🙂 Jon

Thanks 👍 Jon

Just got this reprint and I'm looking forward to using it next year. One quick question: the spacing between the letters of 'U.S. AIR FORCE' is much greater on the decal than on the illustration. Just out of interest, which is correct? Thanks Jon

Very sad to hear this. He will be missed around here. Jon

Thanks for the feedback. I can understand it is quite clean. I only had one photo of this airframe in this scheme and it's not great for showing any weathering: http://www.f-4.nl/usm46.html Hasegawa 1/48 F-4 MLG tend to be crooked because they made the retraction strut slightly too short, and it pulls the wheels inward. It only took me building nine of these kits to begin to figure that out! Jon

This is the final of four 1/48 Phantoms I built concurrently: Academy's F-4N in the kit markings. Yes, you read that right: Academy got it wrong and it's an F-4N, not the F-4B they mis-marketed it as. Aftermarket is Quickboost resin seats and Hypersonic resin tailplanes and AC intakes. Finish is Mr Color varnished with GX100 polished out with Micromesh. More words and pictures at https://jonbryon.com/academy-1-48-mcdonnell-douglas-f-4n-phantom-ii/ Apologies for those of you with browsers that convert the images to those of an egg plane 😯 Comments welcome and thanks for

Here is my third Hasegawa 1/48 Phantom that I've built concurrently: a USMC RF-4B from 1979 in the kit provided markings for VMPF-3. The only additions are True Details resin seats and a nose pitot made from Albion Alloys brass tubing. The paint is all Mr Color finished with Tamiya Semi-Gloss. A full build article and more pictures can be found at: https://jonbryon.com/hasegawa-1-48-mcdonnell-douglas-rf-4b-phantom-ii/ Apologies for those of you with browsers that convert the images into egg-planes 😯 Comments welcome and thanks for looking. Jon

Thanks for the comments everyone 🙂 Jon

Grrr....I have no idea how to prevent this... Thanks 🙂 Jon

Here's my latest Phantom: Hasegawa's 1/48 F-4G. Additions are pitot from Albion Alloys tubing and resin seats and pylons from True Details. The decals are from the kit and the paint is all Mr Color. A fuller write-up and more photos can be viewed here: https://jonbryon.com/hasegawa-1-48-mcdonnell-douglas-f-4g-wild-weasel-v/ Comments welcome and thanks for looking. Jon

I found that the Gunze solutions reacted with Klear/Future to leave marks. I could usually get rid of it under a matt coat. But I stopped using Klear/Future and now I use whichever gloss is made by the same manufacturer as the decal solution. Jon

No, I used Traffic Grey, which they market specifically for the MiG-31. Jon

I used the MRP paint and strongly dislike it. I feel it's far too pale and cool in tone. I wish I'd used the Akan shade (which I was very happy with on my MiG-23). https://jonbryon.com/amk-1-48-mikoyan-mig-31bs-foxhound/ Jon

It never ceases to amaze me just how far you can push Mr Color. This morning I painted about 25% of the upper surfaces of an F-4 with about 3 drops of paint (highly thinned, obviously) over a black base. The bottles are small, but they last ages!

Thanks all. I'm afraid there's nothing precise about it. I find it impossible to be precise with Mr Color because the paint viscosity is so variable from pot to pot. The 311, for example, I had to resurrect from a layer of solid paint into something liquid before I then thinned it further for airbrushing. In general I am thinning it probably about 1:8, with some Mr Mild Retarder added in. That means about 3 drops of paint plus thinner and retarder occupies 3/4 of the paint cup on the airbrush. Pressure is probably somewhere between 10-15PSI halfway along the c

Hmmm...how weird! Nothing I can do about it sadly, but I'm glad you liked the images 🙂 Cheers Jon

Thanks. I assume you're viewing it on a mobile device. I haven't resized the images - they're direct links from my website. I assume it's a bug on the forum software when it resizes for a phone. Jon

Hi all, In a fit of madness I decided to build four 1/48 Phantoms at the same time. Here's the first: Hasegawa's 1/48 F-4E from a 2001 boxing in the kit decals. Paint is Mr Color and applied freehand. The seats and pylons are True Details resin. The engine exhausts are from an Academy F-4. A full description is written up here: https://jonbryon.com/hasegawa-1-48-mcdonnell-douglas-f-4e-phantom-ii/ Comments welcome and thanks for looking. Jon

You learn something new every day 🙂 I'm building the Hasegawa 1/48 RF-4B at the moment and I think I've got all the mods corrects for 7347 in 1979 as a thick-winged post-SURE pre-SLEP airframe in overall gull grey. Hasegawa seem to have got quite a few bits and pieces wrong. Jon

Yes, the original boxing does, at least. That's the one with the green-tailed gull grey airframe on the front. Isn't it the last 12 RF-4Bs built...my memory must be failing me... Jon

Monogram AH-1S: https://jonbryon.com/2018/04/19/monogram-1-48-bell-ah-1s-cobra/ Jon

PM sent. Jon

That matches my memory of the discussion; thanks for confirming. Jon

Where are you based? I have one of these: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/112484-special-hobby-sh48002-sikorsky-r-4b I'm in the UK. JOn