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Bill Gilman (Navy Bird)
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McDonnell Douglas FG.1 Phantom A&AEE 25th Anniversary (Fujimi)

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25 5 January 2022, 23:43
Patrick Hagelstein
Looking very promising! Always a pleasure to tag along during your builds, Bill. 🙂
5 January 2022, 23:50
Bill Gilman
Wow, you guys are quick. I hadn't even finished my captions yet! Yup, this should be a fun project. I've built this kit many times in the past and it goes together nicely. I love the Raspberry Ripple scheme and anniversary markings with all the country roundels. I've just about finished painting the cockpit and ejection seats, hope to have some photos up soon. Cheers, Bill
5 January 2022, 23:58
Patrick Hagelstein
I was surprised too to see no prior comments to this build. 😉
6 January 2022, 00:13
Bill Gilman
The cockpit is finished and ready for the fuselage, which should go together quickly now. The photoetch details that came with the CMK set are unusual - the harnesses seem a bit underscale and the face curtain handles a bit overscale. I guess it all averages out at the end of the day!
13 January 2022, 21:22
Maciej Bellos
Grabing a seat!
13 January 2022, 21:30
Bill Gilman
I've finished the assembly of the fuselage and am checking seams and panel lines prior to priming. Shouldn't be too long before we see some paint on this baby. Everything fit extremely well, and I've not used any filler at all (yet). There are a couple of spots that will need it but that's a far cry from my recent Privateer build. The Aires exhaust tubes are too long to use as they interfere with the open equipment bays on the sides of the rear fuselage. I'll have to shorten them considerably. The same thing happened with the exhaust tubes on my recent F/A-18C - I can only assume that Aires never actually tries to use their own products. What else could it be? Cheers, Bill
16 January 2022, 20:43
Bill Gilman
Raspberry ripple time! The red, white and blue paint scheme is on, and now it's time to add all those fancy markings.
5 February 2022, 00:39
Bill Gilman
Hi mates, the decals for the Phantom 25th Anniversary scheme as seen at the International Air Tattoo in 1983 are on the model. I really like this scheme, and I think the model came out pretty good (so far). Still lots to do, but the finish line is in sight. Cheers, Bill
7 February 2022, 15:58
Bill Gilman
The model is now finished, and I'm quite chuffed on how she turned out. I love this scheme, and have wanted to do it for some time now. The last bit of work was scratchbuilding the FOD covers (to hide the fact that the Fujimi kit has no intake trunking). Photoetch details were added for the HUD and the canopy mirrors and latches (hooks). I made a mistake and left the external mirror on the rear canopy on (XT597 did not have this). However, it's not too noticeable so I'm not going to worry about it.

So there she is - what a fun project. I'm leaving tomorrow for ten days floating around the Caribbean (it will be good to get away from the snow) and will be back on March 1st. I'll try to post more photos then. In the meantime, enjoy these few pix that I posted today. Cheers, Bill
17 February 2022, 00:26
Augie
Wow Bill, really nice work !
17 February 2022, 01:32
Neuling
Beautiful build!
17 February 2022, 10:13
Vincent
Great work on this scheme. It doesn't look easy to do.
17 February 2022, 10:37
István Szücs
I just love it!
17 February 2022, 10:38
Bill Gilman
Thanks mates! I appreciate the nice words. The scheme wasn't too hard to do, you just need to be careful with the paint demarcation. The kit decals were trash but the Xtradecal sheet was great.
18 February 2022, 19:20
Es-haq Khosravi
Excellent job!
18 February 2022, 20:08
Bill Gilman
More pix! Cheers, Bill
2 March 2022, 02:34

Album info

This is the first of two Commemorative British Phantoms, using the venerable Fujimi kit. Of course, several aftermarket items will be used to tart her up. Rather than use the kit decals I've opted for the Xtradecal sheet.

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1:72 British Phantom FG.1 25th Anniversary (Fujimi 34001)1:72 FG.1 British Phantom exhaust nozzles (Aires 7179)1:72 McDonnell-Douglas FG.1 Phantom (Xtradecal X72296)2+
McDonnell Douglas FG.1 Phantom II
GB Royal Air Force (1918-now)
Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment (A&AEE) XT597
Luglio 1983 Royal International Air Tattoo - Greenham Common AB
FS17875 BS381C:537 BS381C:110 25th Anniversary
 

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