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Tom Beighley
I'd hate to have one chasing me down, looks very menacing. Nice car collection as well!

Treehugger
This somehow reminds me of a movie. Hm.. The Admiral: Roaring Currents

Mike Szwarc
Thanks for looking, guys! Treehugger, The Admiral: Roaring Currents is about the conflict where this ship would have been used, If such a ship actually existed. There are no contemporary drawings of the geobukseon, only a couple of vague written descriptions of it. This model is of a scaled down speculative recreation of a turtle ship on display at the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul.

matsal _
All the shipwright traditions from the old days were passed down orally. The word-of-mouth drawings and the last turtle ships were destroyed during the period of Japanese colonial era. Only a few contemporary fishing han-seon, which was a traditional Korean ship, survived after independent. Some ships were rebuilt by old ship carpenters, and they were academically restored. Unfortunately, all the military han-seon, including the turtle ship and pan-ok seon, weren't. We have only superficial details, such as painting by artists or list of supplies for the military ships, and they are not enough to restore the ships academically.

Ben M
This is fantastic and interesting from a historical perspective

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Spanjaard
fantastic

gorby
Fascinating. I've not heard of the turtle ships before.
Excellent model.

Villiers de Vos
Nice progress.

Patrick Hagelstein
Ow jeah! I'm in! 👍

Thomas Bischoff
I am in too!

Jos Jansen
Count me in Sid...nice progress!

Spanjaard
very nice progress indeed. very nice looking Phantom

Marius
Looks great, outstanding surface quality!

Maciej Bellos
It's shaping up great!

Nathan Dempsey
Looking very nice. Can't wait for more progress.

Marius
Those decals sinking in the details are perfect! Did you use any decal setting solutions?
While it might seem to be an irrelevant detail, those honeycomb "NO STEP" warnings were indeed red for the Navy. Nice to see a well researched decal sheet. Many other decal sheets are giving these signs in yellow or black.

What products are you using for the gloss and later for thr matt varnis?

Sid de Koning
I use DACO medium and strong on the Furball stencil set. It's not fit to size for Tamiya despite their statement. Also lacking proper instructions and missing some stencils.
After some daco I cut the decals with a sharp blade over panel lines and use a pin to enhance rivets.
Despite being applied on glossy surface there is still a lot of silvering.

Gloss is Future. Matt will be Alclad2.

Marius
I also use Future as gloss, but sometimes it turns permanently milky (without any other repair options) when I'm using strong decal setting solutions.
Have you had a positive experience with thr Alclad Matt varnish?

Sid de Koning
Yes I like the Alclad2 finishes a lot actually. Different grades of matt. I'll be using those as well to further enhance the metal shades.
So far so good I believe. There was a temporary change of color on the left leading edge. Won't a new Future layer help?

Alexander
Looks great already, and no silvering on the pictures as far as I can see 👍
Looking forward to the rest of the build!

Spanjaard
a fantastic Phantom.

Patrick Hagelstein
Phantastic! 👌🏼

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Jos Jansen
Another great "fear-the-bones" artwork...👍🏻!

Thomas Bischoff
A perfect Phantom and well researched. Did you use now the Eduard exhausts? And full marks for the airbrushed markings 👍.
What goodies would you recommend?

Guy Rump
Very nice build! 👍

Sid de Koning
I would definitely advise eduard exhausts, mirrors, hypersonic nose pod and Quickboost fuel dump, Quinta is amazing.
And maybe not as much the Eduard ladder, fin cap (a little too wide on the front) and the seats.
Definitely not the Flying Leathernecks AERO-3B launchers, mine were so badly warped and I couldn't get them straightened out by boiling water. The Furball stencils are better sized for Academy and not entirely correct, misplaced or complete. But it does give that stenciled look. Both speedbrakes and tail hook take some time to get rid off the 3D print Marks.
And the Dead Design masks didn't fit mine.

Thanks for the positive comments!

Nathan Dempsey
A beautiful finish. Much respect for all those stencils!

Michael Kohl
Clean build. Well done.

Neuling
Very clean and careful work. Top result.

Richard Berrie
Phenomenal job! Loves all the photos and the time you took to document your build. Well done!

Oliver Zwiener
Klasse Ding !

Paul Moore
That's a beauty Sid! Congratulations. Do you know what the ordnance load out on this mission (12 Mk.82's) or give it your best estimate? Makes me want to do this version myself.

Sid de Koning
Thanks Paul. I would like to think my model displays may be the best guessed load-out for that mission in the hands of VF-84.

Fazilyek
Hello, Sid.
Amazing job with little tweaks to represent early blocks. I have a question about early blocks stabilizers without strengthening plates(pic 18). So far I haven't seen them mentioned on anything other than super early F-4H and I could not find any good resolution photo with F-4B stabilizer without reinforced plating. On VF-84 F-4B you can definetely see them absent, but I've seen some photos with plating being painted white and basically it resembles a straight line from some distanse. Can you help with finding source materials/photos for early "B" stabilizers and production blocks they were used on, please? I have intention to build some pre-block-26 F-4B too.