1/72 Hasegawa VMFA323 F-4B

Gallery Article by sentry30 on May 27 2010

 

Reading quite some background information and stories (including the John Trotti book) on both VMFA-314 & 323, while their based at Da Nang and later Chu Lai, made me wanna built one of these birds. It's a standard 1/72 Hasegawa F-4B/N, which has slotted stabilo's (unslotted stabilo's were taken from an other kit). To cheer things up a bit,  used a tiny Eduard PE set, which is for the seats and cockpit only. Too, I used KMC PE (canopy), wheels from True Details, Eduard mask, some very old P.P. Aeroparts AAR-probes (just 1 actually, but there are 2 in the bag!), and decals (nearly as old as the Phantom itself!) from both Micro- and Super Scale.

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Since a lot of these birds were mostly on the Hot Pad, on standby for Fast FAC and CAS, they normally did not carry any AA-missiles (unless fragged) beside their conventional load...

The zuni's are scratchbuilt, they are quite rare to be seen mounted to the F-4 like these.

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