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i'm wanting to replace the kit cans on the 1/32 and 48 revell/mono phantoms, can't find any specifically for revell, does anyone know if the aftermarket eduard tamiya and hasegawa will fit ok?

i'm wanting to replace the kit cans on the 1/32 and 48 revell/mono phantoms, can't find any specifically for revell, does anyone know if the aftermarket eduard tamiya and hasegawa will fit ok?

thanks very much guys, Really has been a help, ams resin seats on the way and i'll be making my own bulged door conversion, not sure about the tyres though!

thanks for the reply mike, I'm being a bit dim here but modern jets really aren't my field of knowledge! I've got a rev f-14 on order as it happens, and it is only the one part of the f-16 i've lost, so basically i can just steal from the f-14 but still have enough parts to build the f.14 as a different variant?

lost the back end of a revell 1/48 f-16c, its not a great kit but i've made a nice job of the cockpit (and the filling and sanding yawn) so i would like to finish it. Can't find specific cans for a revell kit, anyone know how likely aftermarket stuff for tamigawa will fit or am i better off scratch building? Thanks

picked up a couple of revell starfighters, great kit and looks like a real easy build but blessed with terrible cockpits and cans, The kits were real cheap so i don't mind spending a bit on aftermarket-does anyone know whats available? And anyone know of good reference for the ferrari scheme? Thanks

unfortunately there isnt enough sunshine here to bleach them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks for your replies, I'm not going to beat myself up about accuracy, just want to capture a moment with some models which are more than just planes, but actually define an era, which s.e.a phantoms do for me I'm a firm believer in if it looks right it is right, now i know that the stencils were so random i will probably sticker up for effect rather than pin point accuracy. Thanks

just come back to aero modelling and the resin and photo etch are all new to me, and kind of disappointing. The models that wowed me as a kid where stock kits that underwent a lot of home engineering to make them special, sadly a lot of that work is already done in resin now. Most of the kits i have underway have been from ebay, and nearly all have come with resin pits and quite honestly i really don't like them. Sure the kit is a real dog like an esci hun a good cockpit would improve it no end, but for less than the cost of the resin you can pick up a good mono kit with a cockpit and seat

the revellogram thud, favourite plane, just captures the plane perfectly and the detail is great, all the 1/48 century series are awesome, especially the hun. the sabre dog kit and the f-15 are pretty near perfect kits too.

this may be a dumb question. . . However. . . I'm modelling three phantoms, two in s.e.a and one luftwaffe, the german bird i have sorted but i'm having trouble finding reference for the stencil data applied to us aircraft. There is a choice of black grey and white stencilling and i cannot find any definitive reference to tell me what i need for late sixties phantoms. I know that white stencilling was very common and some planes looked like chalkboards, but can anyone help me or point me in the direction to get it spot on? Thanks Peter

nice one, Thanks for the link, excellent tutorial. I'm working my way through the monogram century series soon, they are all raised panels but beautifully done, there is no way i would rescribe the thud for instance, its just so well done. I'll let you know how i get on Peter

although i'm fairly new to this i've had some pretty good results just using the tamiya weather masters over varying shades of alclad, they handle stains/smears and jet exhaust excellently and a light rub over the panel lines gives an effect very like pre shaded airbrush work, panel lines pencilled in and smudging the pencil graphite into the panels dulls them down authentically. Makes realistic scratches easy too, use olive or black trim tape for anti glare panels and gently scrape a few scratches into them with the point of a file or similar, looks like real wear and tear. I just use foil

thanks for that-the mike grant decals are better than the in box, i'll try the bleachin too and maybe between the sets i'll be able to build the b-58 i wanted to. I remember the bird dog kit from when i was a kid-i painted it olive green to look like the plane glenn millar crashed in, must be nearly thirty years ago!

got a couple of kits from ebay recently, the revell b-58 and b-1 and due to the age of the kits the transfers have yellowed. Am i best just abandoning the in box decals altogether or will they be ok once applied? I'm having trouble finding aftermarket for either kit over here