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1/48 F-4C/D - Scarce to Find?


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It seems the newer Phantoms are hard to find in the non-gun nosed varieties. I want to build a Vietnam era USAF bird in SEA. The ZM F-4E is easy enough to find currently, but I don’t find the lines of the gun nose particularly pleasing. So I’m looking for a C/D. 
 

The ZM is impossible to find. The Academy one is scarce from US suppliers. I don’t really want to go further back in time than Academy.  I’ve built some variant of Hasegawa, Academy, and ZM, but all Navy or Marine birds. So I have a decent idea what I want in the kits. 
 

Does anyone have thoughts, insight, etc, in to why the newer kits are scarce and where to find one...particular the ZM kit?

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Amazon claims to have three of these kits

https://www.amazon.com/Academy-Model-Kit-Rokaf-Plane/dp/B00JF2PSQA/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3U9QJ5RYW2SBW&dchild=1&keywords=1%2F48+academy+f-4d&qid=1607817588&refinements=p_85%3A2470955011&rnid=2470954011&rps=1&sprefix=academy+f-4d%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-1

 

available to be delivered on December 15.  

 

Scalemates claims this kit was released with  "new parts", so I don't know if this ROKAF release is suitable to build a USAF F-4D(obviously at least, USAF decals  would need to be procured).  A quick comparison of the parts locating diagram for the USAF F-4C  and this ROKAF F-4D release seem to show that the two kits come with the same sprues.  

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On 12/13/2020 at 1:17 AM, ytsejam87 said:

Amazon claims to have three of these kits

https://www.amazon.com/Academy-Model-Kit-Rokaf-Plane/dp/B00JF2PSQA/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3U9QJ5RYW2SBW&dchild=1&keywords=1%2F48+academy+f-4d&qid=1607817588&refinements=p_85%3A2470955011&rnid=2470954011&rps=1&sprefix=academy+f-4d%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-1

 

available to be delivered on December 15.  

 

Scalemates claims this kit was released with  "new parts", so I don't know if this ROKAF release is suitable to build a USAF F-4D(obviously at least, USAF decals  would need to be procured).  A quick comparison of the parts locating diagram for the USAF F-4C  and this ROKAF F-4D release seem to show that the two kits come with the same sprues.  

 

They are identical except for the instructions and decals. I have several of both RoKAF kits, and all are supposed to become USAF F-4C/Ds.

 

Jens

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On 12/13/2020 at 5:00 PM, fulcrum1 said:

ZM kits seem to have production runs and once they sell out, you need to wait for another run. 


Yes, they sure do. I’ve been distantly watching the -C/D for a while and there hasn’t seemed to be much hint of a rerun. So I’ve been worrying they’re not going to rerun these. They’re trend with the -J would suggest they will, but who knows. 

 

13 hours ago, JEN722 said:

 

They are identical except for the instructions and decals. I have several of both RoKAF kits, and all are supposed to become USAF F-4C/Ds.

 

Jens


I’ve been holding out for the ZM, as I think it’s a better model. But the Academy is a very workable kit and I’d a ZM doesn’t surface, I’ll almost certainly go this route. 

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