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Moreno Baruffini
Watching with interest!

Jan Janssen
#me too, wondering how it builds-up

Jan Peters
Pulling up a chair

Cuajete
Thomas, I knew you were going to get this kit! 🙂

I was hesitating a lot between the Swedish box and the Jordanian box. It took me a long time to decide, but in the end I ordered the Jordanian one because I already have several future projects with that fantastic Swedish scheme.

I follow you with great interest (as always). It is quite possible that I will finally regret choosing the Jordanian box 😉

Łukasz Gliński
Been waiting for this one 👍Utterly cool camo indeed

Harry Eder
Watching! 👍 Good luck with the kit...

Thomas Kolb
Did some dry-fitting yesterday, and just as I expected by the looks of it, it is definitely A-model quality. A lot of fettling, scraping and sanding is required for a decent fit of the major parts such as the fuselage halves and the wings. Good thing it is a small model!

Erik De Smet
It seems that it is of the same "quality" as their SF260 and Alpha jet kits. Have you ever built the venerable Airfix kit ?

Michael Kohl
I will watch too how you turn this ugly duck into a beautiful swan.

Thomas Kolb
Erik, I actually think that this is a retooling of the Airfix kit. Slightly different parts and recessed panel lines, but the breakdown is almost identical.

Łukasz Gliński
Looks like AZ Model is morphing into A-Model 😛

Daniel Mysak
I´m following. Looks like a bunch of work to get a proper model out of this kit. I'm sure you will handle it.

Finn
Will follow

Thomas Espe
👀

Cuajete
I think KP/AZ should start an improvement their molds after so many kit releases and sales, as Special Hobby has already successfully done. It is curious that for some kits they make good molds (such as the Bf-109) and for others they are so mediocre.

Despite this, I am sure that Thomas will do an extraordinary job 👍

Matthew A
🍿

Cuajete
Interiors looks great, Thomas 👍

Robert Podkoński
I am a little late, but from now I will follow with pleasure and interest (like all Thomas's previous builds 😉 )

Guy Rump
Looking good 👍

Tom B.
Looks like a lot of craftsmanship will go into this kit before the end of the build... Curiously following 👍

Thomas Kolb
This little kit is definitely putting up a fight in every step. Silly me, I thought this was going to be a relaxed weekend project, ha ha. 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
I know that feeling, it usually ends up this way 😉

Cuajete
Łukasz enjoys with suffered models 😛
Good (hard) job so far, Thomas 👍

Erik De Smet
KP short run = long work. I prefer Vallejo putty for filling seams on this type of kits, as it comes with a fine tip

Thomas Kolb
Erik yes, I think the photo shows a bit of my frustration with the seam lines. It should not be like this for a 2022 tooling.

Cuajete
Thomas, will the skinny front landing gear hold the weight of all those fishing weights?

Łukasz Gliński
Wow, how did you squeeze all that lead inside 😮

Thomas Kolb
Well, those weights are juuuust barely enough to keep the Bulldog on its nose gear and still kind of pivots around its main gear. Good thing that the entire engine compartment behind the dashboard is empty so with some Tetris skills you can fill it completely with those fishing weights.

Erik De Smet
So the front wheel does not support any weight, as the nose is in balance with the tail. I had the same problem with KPs SIAI Marchetti, and the SH Marchetti needs also quite some weight in the nose.

Michael Kohl
not a shake an bake-kit for sure. I like how you tackle it. For maximum usage of weight in tight spaces consider lead granules. They come rather cheap by the kilogram and have a diameter of max 1 - 2 mm. You can even drill a hole into the fuselage after it is closed and pour the granules in - followed by some white glue to fix them.

Thomas Kolb
After having lingered in the limbo state of half-finished projects, I have decided to reboot this build. The screwed up paintjob was removed with IPA alcohol and the model is now back to bare plastic. Some correcting fills are done and it is soon time to reapply the primer. I will make my life easier this time and just build the standard Swedish Air Force version. But I have already purchased a second kit to be finished with the Swedish Army splinter camouflage as I think I know this time how to do it properly. Stay tuned!

J35J
Great to see that you have restarted the kit. The weight distribution is a real pain. Had similar challenges with my Airfix SK61 build some months ago, Liquid Gravity sorted the issue.
SwAF livery will look aces. Keep up the spirit!👏🏼👍🏻

Michael Kohl
No idea what that livery will look like, but nice that this one is back at the bench. Reminds me of my Safir which is at a similar state.

Moreno Baruffini
Glad to see this kit again on the bench! ,👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Mid Franconian
🧑‍💻 Interesting as always!

Cuajete
Thomas, It's fantastic to read that you are taking up this project again. Great!

Ekki
And watching it.

István Szücs
Well documented build, great work, as usual!

Łukasz Gliński
Great to see you back with this little fella 👍

Nicolas
I'm joining. Very good description of the build so far. 👍

Charles-Henri Titelion
Good start Raph! Very nice cockpit

DerMattes
Fantastic cockpit, following!

Nicolas
Following

Giannis Kaltapanidis
Always in for a Phantom... Cockpit looks great!

Patrick Hagelstein
Oooh! I almost missed this one…

Piotr Sarniński-Górecki
Following. I'm working on this kit too 🙂 Good job so far !!

Urban Gardini
What a lovely cockpit, great work mate!

Marius
Great progress, it will be a great model at the end. Is that the Aires resin cockpit set for the F-4F which you adapted?

John Ballman
Thanks for sharing your work. Coming together nicely
JB

Raphael Bernecole
Thank you very much to everyone for your support and follow-up 🙂

@Marius : I had the SBS Models resin kit in stock for the Revell kit. This kit is well detailed but complicated to place in the Phantom. I recommend the Aires Kit, much superior in every way 😉

F-4 E/F Phantom - Cockpit Set (SBS Model 72004, 1:72)

Nicolas
Very nice result. 👍

Harry Eder
WOW! Your Phantom looks fantastic! 👍

J35J
Excellent build!👍🏻

Charles-Henri Titelion
jaw dropping beauty! Congratulations!

gorby
As far as I know the only sort order you can select is 'Relevance' or 'A to Z' (by subject name). The sort control is top right under 'Free Text Filter'.

Fred van der Haak
A-Z makes sense, what does relevance do?

Spanjaard
the models in your stash do not change order when you select A-Z or relevance. what changes is the order of the filters. for example in A-Z order, you will se the brands, in alphabetical order, in your case Fred, it starts with

Brand (23)
Advent (1)
Airfix (3)
Azur (1)
Bronco (1)
Doyusha (1)
ESCI (1)
Fujimi (1)

with relevance, it shows first the names with more items behind them, in your case for example

Heller Humbrol (19)
HobbyBoss (17)
Revell (12)
Trumpeter (12)
Tamiya (8)
Italeri (6)
Shizuoka Model Teaching Material Cooperative (5)

Spanjaard
you should see all your models (well, if you are below the limit of page visualization that i believe is 3000 items). if you do not see all, either you have a filter that is hiding something, or there is a problem with the page.

Fred van der Haak
Thx, very helpful 😄👍

Spanjaard
strangely enough, when i check my stash, i see a line at the end, that says the number of items Results found: xxxxx, but i do not see that line in your stash, while it does appear in the stash others (even somebody i just tried that has more than 2700 items)

Spanjaard
wellcome to SCM by the way 🙂

Roland Sachsenhofer
With these pictures I open the book report on Roden's Junkers D.1: I tried to extend the interior with some steel wire, the seat belts are from Eduard. For the detailing I downloaded the very interesting building instructions from Wingnut Wings for the large D.1 in 1:32, which is quite helpful if you want to have a good documentation as a basis for detailing. I'm also going to realise one of the WW variants, which I immediately liked: all in Dural/ NMF with only a minimal set of markings.

gorby
Nice work so far. Looking forward to this. 🙂

Michael Kohl
Auch da bin ich dabei.

Roland Sachsenhofer
I'm very pleased - appreciated!

bughunter
Watching!
I have done the short fuselage already, I hope one day I can do the long one too.

Is the engine painting finished? I can recommend the WNW manual for this, still available on WNW page.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thanks for the tip - it's definitely a good one! The printed WNW instructions are next to me, so I want to use a little oily black on the top of the engine and add a little "brass"... But not only WNW instructions, also your excellent work is my reference.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you for your words, appreciated!