Phantom paints!

[JensOle]

Hello,

I have been in Phantom mood for the last weeks. Started out with trying to get the Milviz bird to work, but no luck so I gave the SWS F-4B/N model a try and I have had a lot of fun with it. Great model and they have a great USS Coral Sea to go with it.

After some low vis US navy N models I have moved on to the SEA-scheme painted USAF birds. The B is not a C/D, but a pretty good match I think! Man, the amount of stencils on the Phantoms are mindblowing… It has taken many days..

(Trying out linking pics from dropbox, sp please be overbearing if it is not working!)

(E)F-4C Wild Weasel IV from the 81st TFS of the 52nd TFW from Spangdahlem AB in Germany, 1970s.

[JensOle]

F-4D from the 91st TFS of the 81st TFW from Bentwater/Woodbridge as it looked in the mid 70s.






Landing on Bentwater rw 7, you can see Woodbridge to the right.

[oldmsgt]

Looking forward to 'em!

The Old MSgt

[Motormouse]

Stencils..ha ha

We used to say most of the maintenance manual was stenciled on the aeroplane (RAF F-4)

Any chance of a 'Night Owls' one?

Ttfn

Pete

[MustangL2W]

Absolutely beautiful!!!! Great to see detailed Air Force Phantoms come back to life! I second the request for 497th Fighter Squadron NightOwls F-4D

[William Njurmi]

Cool. Spanish Phantoms are non-existent...

[delta_lima]

Those look great, Jens.

Your N paints are going to be a hit. I'll post a few more screens tonight.

Did you get any more info regarding a "paint kit" of sorts with which to update the carriers' statics?

Again - big thanks for repainting this model.

PS - a point of clarification, for those who've bought the PBR models - these are for the "Legacy" model; and so far as I can tell, won't work on the PBR - the latter of which overwrites the Legacy model. I've reverted to the old model, since other than the PBR visuals, I far prefer the legacy model's AB effect, and generally find it works better for me than the new one. These paints requiring the old model made it academic for me - they're just too special to not have the older model installed. I just made a copy of the PBR model and renamed it (model.pbr) and just slaved the one or two paints I really wanted from the PBR model to that model so I'm covered either way.

So all that to say I'm perfectly satisfied that Jens is painting based on the legacy model - but it's FYI for those that have the PBR model.

[JensOle]

Thanks for the feedback! European based C/Ds for now. Yes, the spanish Phantom might happen 😎 Researching c.12-40 with white stencils right now. Easy paint as it is mostly in full standard usaf paint and decals.