F-4E Phantom

Aircraft Cold War
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Hello all,

This my first post to this site. I finished this last month.
The “Wreckin Crew” was stationed at Korat RTAFB June of 1968. The jet was lost over Laos in June 1970. This is my Zoukei Mura F-4E early kit. This is my first ZM kit and I have to say I am a fan! The fit, instruction sheet and decals were outstanding. I also used Quinta cockpit, Hasegawa bombs, G Factor landing gear, Zotz decal sheet and AK real color paints. The Revetments are from USAF Flightline I purchased around 2015. After a little over 20 years of building this is my first Phantom (blasphemy right) and I enjoyed it so much getting another one.
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Looking very sharp! That is one great looking build.And thank you for the history lesson on the actual subject aircraft.

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Welcome Rod, and thats a great first thread with the F4 as the centre piece. It looks amazing and you have given it a great finish. On looking at the top image, I initially thought it was a real one in a museum !! … I have heard the ZM kits are pretty much up there as being the best or very close to it. Great work.

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Absolutely amazing model and photos, great work!

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I have this kit in my stash, I hope I can do it justice like you have. Really nicely photographed as well.

Top notch.

Watto

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“Holy shait it’s Viper.” :sunglasses:

Welcome aboard Ron. The Phantom looks great. :+1:

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Welcome to the forum!

The F4 looks outstanding and very well photographed too.

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Excellent model and photography!

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To funny needed to look at it twice to realize it was a scale model, nicely done!

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The best builds are the ones that can fool you into thinking they are actual aircraft. You achieved that look very well.

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Nice job 100% killer indeed, looking like ready to pound some butt. :slightly_smiling_face: :blush: :kissing_smiling_eyes: Did the Pilot make it home?

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Really nice! Some of those pics look like the real deal. Well done.

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At first glance, it looked like the real deal, that’s an amazing build. Congrats !!

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Excellent model!!! Thanks for sharing! :+1: :+1:

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Thank you for your reply. From what I could find it sounds like the crew did not make it back. I could be wrong though.

Rod