Ben Brown

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Thanks, @BillS! @PlasticWeapons was kind enough to provide a photo of a Monogram stabilator that appears to have the longer reinforcement patch and the second patch near the tip. This might give folks an idea of the general shape. Thanks, PW! Ben

Hi @dai phan, PM sent. Ben

Here are some screen grabs from YouTube of the oil tanks. For our modeling purposes, we can modify the kit Sparrows. The tanks had a rounded rear end and the aft fins seem to extend past the end of the tube. There's a filler tube sticking down just forward of the aft fin and a T-handle of some sort near the nose, just aft of where the curved part of the tank turns into a tube. The aft tanks were yellow, while the forward ones could have been yellow or blue. The inboard forward fins of the forward tanks were removed so they didn't cover the yellow arrow shape on the belly.

Another pic from the 1969 season (NMNA via Kinzey) that shows the natural metal area a little better than the photo of #1 a few posts above, with the zig zag in the paint above the afterburner nozzle. This shot also provides the best view I've found of the stabilator reinforcement plate. The #1 jet above doesn't have the this, and all jets don't have them in later seasons, so I'm guessing that maybe the plates weren't fitted to all BA F-4Js. It appears the plates were fitted to most of the Thunderbirds jets. Note how the plate carries forward all the way to the aft edge of the bare metal titan

Hi @dai phan and @Tato, Please PM your addresses to me and I’ll calculate the shipping costs for you. Thanks! Ben

Pre-war 4th FIG markings looked pretty sporty with the squadron badge and large flaming arrow on the fuselage. I built this one with the Cutting Edge conversion and I’d love to be able to replace it with a better one. Ben

@Scott Smith, beautiful! Ben

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Paint chips have been updated. Added Krylon True Blue to the comparison. Ben

Here's a link to the T-Birds F-4E Configuration Manual. There's probably some mods applied to the Blue Angels F-4Js, too. Ben

Hi @BillS! Feel free to add anything you want to the thread. I don't have a whole lot on the T-Birds F-4s, since in the past my interests have always run more to the F-100s. When digging into the F-100 history, I found that the crew chiefs were consistently the best sources of the kind of nerd stuff I love because they had their hands on the jets every day. Cheers! Ben

Woo hoo! Ben