1/48 Hasegawa F-4E - IDF

by Shawn "Phantom"  Weiler

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Number 108. A Hasegawa F-4E of the Israeli defense force. Built mostly Out of the box with the following add ons. A camera stand from a dollar store. This model had more flash then any other Phantom I have ever seen. The landing gear would have taken days to clean. So I said screw it, and built it wheels up. Lucky on this one, the doors were a perfect fit. No putty.

Camera stand from a dollar store does wonders, and saves a little room on the shelf. Next add on was bombs and a laser guider from a Hasegawa weapons set. The biggest or hardest to find change is the IDF style refueling probe. I stole this from a RF-4E IDF kit which I built as a RF-4C a while back. I knew the probe would come in handy one day.

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The decals are a very old Superscale sheet. The paint guide on the Superscale sheet is completely useless so I painted my model from the RF-4E instructions and photo references I had in various books in my basement.

The decals are said to be from 113 squadron in the early 1970's. There is debate if this squadron ever actually had Phantoms and if it could have been a miss information exercise.

Don't know the point of that. I do now that if a Phantom is baring down on my skull, dropping big honking laser guided urban regenerators, I don't really give a rats bum which squadron is doing the deed.

But, we must all agree it does have the most over the top sharks mouth out there. This model was built for the ARC IDF group build.

Shawn "Phantom" Weiler

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Photos and text © by Shawn "Phantom" Weiler