First in the
multi part phantom collection with only 1 aircraft. Mainly because I don't
have another Phantom scheduled to build for a few months. This is the
Hasegawa 1/48 F-4EJ Kai with Zotz Misawa JASDF pre 50th anniversary
markings.
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The kit is out
of the box apart from the decals, the addition of
True Details ejection
seats and some intake covers. The decals are very colourful, rather
expensive (understandably given the complexity of the subject) and very
fragile.
They are also
a 4 part decal when all is said and done. A very helpful white
underlay. VERY fragile FULL COLOUR dragons, and other figures, clouds,
then the kit decal stencils on top of everything.
Zotz
Decals gives you MOST
of the decals required. But you must use the Hasegawa stencils. Zotz suggests
using the Hasegawa F-4EJ Kai 8th SQ Panthers (which is kit 09556). Luckily Air
support Hobbies in Kitchener had a copy, and Ed being the good guy he is got me
a price that cannot be matched in the province.
Using the kit decals
it really becomes apparent how white the Zotz decals can be compared to the
ivory decals supplied by Hasegawa. Also the kit does NOT give you the nose
numbers required to do #384. Luckily there are more then enough 3's provided so
I put decals down for # 334, waited for that to dry a day then laid an addition
3 (turned backwards) over the middle 3 to create an 8.
The stencils by the
way took me SEVERAL days to complete and many of you know I am a rather quick
builder.
The clouds gave me
some trouble, they are also a multi part decal, but the greys hardly changed the
bright white so I had to repaint the grey by hand to provide some contrast.
Not an easy scheme,
but it still turned out good.
Photo 10 shows all
the JASDF (and British) Phantoms together, 11 where it WILL be displayed after a
stint at the local hobby store.
Shawn
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