Luftwaffe Phantom

[bluewillow]

This aircraft has been almost complete pile for 10 years at least, the interior and base coat was painted, but no detailing done, panel lines, weathering  decals or pilot.

 Last month I unpacked boxes of kits from storage to complete some for the 30 day kit build. In these boxes were a number of aircraft in various stages of completion, mostly built but no paint, or pilots. So my goal this month is to finish off as many as I can before moving onto armour!

Now I also have 3d files for pilots, so I have started printing loads of ww2, helicopter and jet pilots and looking for or purchasing decals to complete a number of builds that had stalled along with matching canopies (which is ok for some but difficult for others….). So expect a lot of aircraft over the coming month as I paint pilots, airbrush built kits and add decals.

Really happy with my results although I think I would like to build it again and be more careful within my fit and finish. Overall really good to have it completed.








Cheers
Matt

[Michi]

I remember them thundering the skies when I was growing up. Easy to recognize by the trail of soot...

[Harry Faversham]

Same here in the 70s. We had a caravan on the East Lincs coast. Regular flyovers, as the RAF had gun and bombing ranges in the North Sea.
 

[carlos marighela]

I remember them thundering the skies when I was growing up. Easy to recognize by the trail of soot...

If you had bought the British ones, with Rolls Royce Speys, you'd have had a lot less soot. 

Nice work on that Matt. Of course you know I'm looking forward to the BGS Puma.

[bluewillow]

Cheers lads

Nice work on that Matt. Of course you know I'm looking forward to the BGS Puma.

Yes mate in the line up!

[Jemima Fawr]

Very nice!   

As with all things that flew in the 80s, I do miss seeing them in our skies.  Sadly however, I saw two fatal Phantom crashes in the 80s - a USAF RF-4 which crashed into the sea at RAF Brawdy airshow and an RAF Phantom that stoofed into the mountain we were standing on (near Aberystwyth).

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Nice painting.

Not many memories of Phantoms (not as memorable as an F-104 Starfighter).
I guess they were part of the escort on V Bomber flights that seemed to come over the house once a year in the 'seventies.

[carlos marighela]

I was friends with a girl whose father had been a navigator on Canberrras, then the F-4s the RAAF briefly leased in the early 1970s. He later went on to F-111s when they finally arrived but I recall Frank enthusing about the Phantom as his favorite ride. The RAAF wanted to hang on to them even after the F-111s arrived.

I can understand him preffering it over the Canberra, if for no other reason that folk would take the occasional pot shot at him and his pilot when he was flying them out of Phan Rang.