F-4B and F-4J - Jolly Rogers

[Jim N]

The marking on this squadron's planes has always captivated my imagination.

The F-4B is an Italeri with Vagabond decals, and the F-4J is from Academy with decals from the kit.  Both are 1/72 scale.  These are my first aircraft model builds in over 25 years.  The outlines on the canopies and the striping on the tail hooks were my Achilles heel back then and things have not changed.

Thank you for looking.

 

[Belugawrx]

You've been a busy guy Jim..those both look great !

[Jim N]

6 minutes ago, Belugawrx said:

You've been a busy guy Jim..those both look great !

Thank you Bruce.  I appreciate the kind words.  These have been done for several months.  I just finally got around to taking pictures of them when I photographed the Byron Camaro.

[stavanzer]

Good Looking Phantoms! They look great.

[PappyD340]

Very nice pair of jets!

[Jim B]

Great looking Phantoms.  Well done.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Very nice, great looking models. Think I need to build one.  

I loved Phantoms when they were front-line fighters, loved them when they were operating as Wild Weasels in SE Asia, still loved them when the Guard was flying them out of Dobbins here (my shop was just across Hwy.41 from the end of the main runway, and a pair would leave together in full AB at dusk several times a month), and I was sad seeing many of them out in Mojave Ca, panels painted in fluorescent red after being converted to QF-4 unmanned one-way target drones.

 

[mustang1989]

Those are both great builds and in such small scale at that. One of the things that stops me from building a Phantom is the fact that there is LOTS of decal work to do on these aircraft and you've done an exceptional job at that on both of these and they look GREAT Jim.