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Hi all,

 

Thanks once again to all that helped and influenced me with regards to this build.

 

The first thing I will say is, I'll never again consider using the markings from the kit, ever. Aftermarket all the way for my next Phantom conversion, back-dating a J to a B using GT's set.

 

Anyway, I built this for the Carrier build on Britmodeller but feel I should pop it on here because I loaded it out from recommendations and pictures from ARC guys.

 

Here she is, the decals fought me all the way and I did replace some as they disintegrated in front of my eyes. 

 

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Very Nice

I have the same project in the stash and I just decided to stray away from the Jolly Roger and convert it to a VF-111 Bravo wiit GT as well

But thanks to you I realised that I need an extra one to build both :)

 

Nice model and your struggle with the decal doesn't show. 

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Great looking phantom, always liked them with a white nose!

 

A question for you, how did you do the folded wing tips? Do you have pics of the supports and how they are secured in the wings?

 

Thanks,

Mike

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Very nice paint job.

 

Ichitoe, I do not know how Wafu did it. But there is enough support in the Tamiya kit to just glue the wings folded as they are. Done it that way several times now.

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Hi Mike, Just as Phantom says, the wing tip and main wing has square holes. I just used right angled plastic sprue, filed down and shaped. Once in place it was held in position with super glue. The kit profile of the wing helps mask the ad hoc fix, it would have been a lot easier if Tamiya had included the wing fold, never mind though it's a great kit and I will be building another one very soon.

 

Cheers Ian.

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Phantom and Ian - thanks for the info! I had myself thinking I'd have to engineer some complex scratch built pieces to do the wing folds.  There are times I WAY over think things!

 

Mike

 

 

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