That looks bloody amazing! The weathering and staining on the belly is nicely done too.
Congratulations on finishing.
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Well done! 
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Great job, my congrats! 
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Hi mates,
at last I decided what kit I will build (and hopefully finish) for this campaign. My only Hasegawa example of the Phantom:
Nothing glued yet, just gave it the cleansing bath and sorted out the parts not needed.
The IFR-thing could be tricky with cutting out and thinning the fuselage part, we’ll see…
Very nice builds already finished here or in the making! Good luck!
See you
Peter
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Hi mates, the build goes as planned so far…but I managed to break the IFR set 
and wasn’t really in the mood to try mending it. So I trashed it and decided not to cut into the fuselage etc.
Ok, and here are some actual photos:
I hope the fitting of the intakes and fuselage parts will go as well as it looks while dry-fitting test.
Cheers
Peter
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Looking good.
Too bad about the IFR probe. Resin inserts can be a pain to fit. I’ve got a cockpit for the old Italeri 1/48 Mirage F1 that needs a lot of material grinding out to fit. Sat there for a few years now.
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Nose, rear fuselage, belly and intakes fitted. Lot of parts that need careful lining up. Wasn’t 100% successful, but nothing a bit of filling and sanding can’t solve.
The intakes in particular need work to fit right. I found they fit better after the mounting pins on the back were trimmed off. Even then the fit wasn’t perfect.
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Interesting. I wonder if you’ll have better luck with alignment than I did?
Will have to try that on the next Hasegawa F-4 I do.
I spent a little time tonight after work sanding some of the filler back along along the intake join.
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Alignment went ok, needs a little filler anyway…
At least I coudn’t find any “steps” which is fine enough 
Photos will follow soon.
Cheers
Peter
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