USAF birds: the SUU-20 is a practice bomb dispenser.; the SUU-16 and SUU-23 are USAF gun pods. The Monogram kit has the SUU-16.
With respect …
The F-4 was not designed to be a dog fighter, a fact partially rectified by the addition of an internal gun and slats.
The F-4 was a great plane on the deck and was a good bombing platform, especially for Close Air Support. However, it couldn’t and didn’t “roll through at 200 knots and scatter napalm all over the place”. Bombing is not done at “stall speed”.
The F-105 was fast, but not maneuverable.
Former F-4 CAS pilot here.
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Welcome aboard! 
I hope you enjoy the forums and contribute with your knowledge.
It didn’t help its early deployment in Vietnam that the ROE required visual identification of targets before firing, which removed much of the advantages the F-4’s missile range gave it. One of the techniques that the pilots developed to work around the problem is, when ‘theoretically’ hostile aircraft were spotted on radar, was for one bird in the flight to head for them at full afterburner, arriving and booming past too fast for the enemy aircraft to shoot, while the rest of the flight hung back. When the lead aircraft got a visual ID on the enemy, its crew would report it to the rest of the flight and pull strongly out of plane while the rest of the flight would use their existing target locks to fire missiles.
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Welcome Gene!
Good to have you here. I look forward to seeing your models.
Which F-4s did you fly? I hope that you will tell us some of your F-4 stories.
Fred
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