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Ben Brown

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  1. @BWDenver, Thanks for taking the time to post this! I love this kind of airplane geek stuff! Ben
  2. Fortunately, not much of the frame will be seen once it’s installed in the cockpit. Ben
  3. @BWDenver, Thank you! These pics are great! One of these days I'm going to do another F-100C conversion of the Monogram kit and the seat details have been the main holdup. Ben
  4. Wait, you have an F-100A seat?? Can you post a couple of photos, please? Ben (the F-100 nut)
  5. Hi @ya-gabor, If you want white stencils, I’ll repeat my recommendation for the Fundekals depot stencils I linked above. I’m using it right now on my current Z-M F-4E project, since it includes a lot of stencils for Hill Grey jets too. It’s not cheap, but it includes literally everything. It even has the landing gear strut and missile bay placards, which is a first. Ben
  6. That’s a pretty broad subject! Is there any particular jet(s) that appeals to you? Then folks could point you towards the best kit. I’ve really scaled back my use of aftermarket, too. Some of my favorite jet kits I’ve built: F-4 Phantom: I’m currently building a Zoukei-Mura F-4E and have thoroughly enjoyed it. The Meng F-4E and G are also supposed to be quite good. The Tamiya F-4B is the absolute best F-4 kit available in 1/48. F-16: Tamiya is very good and I hear the new Kinetic kits are pretty good, too. Hawker Hunter: Airfix. Airfix’s other recent 1/48 jet kits
  7. Hi Gabor, I understand. I like to see what I'm purchasing, too. I'm not sure if Fundekals go to shows, but fortunately, they have a good enough rep that you can buy sight unseen. The Z-M kit seats are very nice and are a great canvas for adding a lot of detail. Ben
  8. Hi All, Posting here to get more views. I know it's pretty much unobtanium, but does anyone have this looooong out of production Repliscale sheet? I'm willing to buy the whole sheet but I'm mainly interested in a couple of "SJ"s for an F-4E. Thanks! Ben bebrown1 AT bellsouth DOT net
  9. Like Curt, I never would’ve noticed the seats. I sort of automatically replace kit seats with resin any time I can. If you want correct stencils for that F-4G, get Fundekals’ F-4 stencil sheet for depot-applied stencils: LINK. The tail codes and serial numbers shouldn’t be too hard to piece together from other decal sheets. Ben
  10. I've got the fuselage fix for the Z-M kit, but I'm debating whether or not I want to go through the effort to use it. Like Gene says, it's not very noticeable and I think it will be even less so if you're building a SEA or Europe I camouflaged jet. It seems like it might be more noticeable on a large area of a single, light color, like a Navy Gull Grey jet. There's a thread here on ARC that goes into a lot of detail about the fuselage shape and I seem to recall Jeffrey posting some in-progress pics of his fix. Re. the other available F-4 kits, I'm thoroughly enjoying the Z-M F-4E
  11. Hi @Gwen Phoenix, I’m not familiar with the Steel Beach set, but yes, they’re the sort of rounded, boxy fairings. IIRC, there are two up under the intakes and two more back near the main gear wells. I can dig up my photos of them if you’d like to have them. If you “borrow” your husband’s F-4J upgrade set and he comes looking it, we’ll all claim we know nothing about it! 😀 Ben
  12. Hi @Gwen Phoenix, here’s the wing fence. I just realized that I’d forgotten to point out the antenna fairings on the intakes (which I’m sure you’re already aware of!😀) and some antenna bulges on the underside near the main gear wells. I don’t think they’re included on the Monogram F-4J kit. I’ll post pics of those tomorrow, if you’re interested. Cheers! Ben
  13. @Gwen Phoenix I forgot I had some pics on Imgur. I’ll upload & post a pic of the wing fence next time I’m at my computer. Ben
  14. Hi @Gwen Phoenix, I’m currently using the Hypersonic conversion with the Z-M F-4E it was intended for, but I don’t see any reason why it couldn’t be adapted to work on a Monogram or Hasegawa F-4J. Note that the slats on the F-4S have a different profile than the F-4E/F/G. Here’s a quick summary of the differences: Link It’s not too difficult to modify the Air Force slats to look like Navy ones. I once corrected the Hasegawa F-4S slats with a little styrene and Milliput. I think if you can handle adapting the Hypersonic conversion to fit your base kit, you’ll be able to
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