1/48 Hasegawa RF-4E Hellenic Air Force Special

Gallery Article by Athanasiadis George on Oct 28 2011

Greece National Day

 

Hello from Greece.

This is the Hasegawa 1/48 RF-4E PHANTOM II " Hellenic Air Force Special " 

This aircraft painted for the very special occasion of the 50th birthday of the Phantom and the 30 years service of the Hellenic RF-4E with 348TRS.

I decide to build this kit to share with you the corrections that it needs because there are some mistakes and I know that because I am a member of the artwork team that design and painted the real aircraft.

My priority was the the appearance to be right so I did not make major surgery such as opening panels.

I used Eduard pre-painted photo etched parts for the cockpit Verlinden ejection seats MB Mk7, Aires exhaust J-79 and Cutting Edge seamless intakes.

 

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All colors are life color .The real aircraft is painted with FS 33038 FS34079 FS 34102 the kit painting guide is not right and the pattern is not correct. Use the right one that I design from the real aircraft.

About the decals there are some mistakes the size of the letters in the yellow stripes on both sides of the fuselage are the same but the decals give them with two sizes.  It is impossible to correct it, but I changde the Macedonian Sun on the right wing with new with the right blue. The light blue circle with the Macedonian sun is only on the right wing both sides replacing the Greek national insignia not on the left wing as the instructions say. The Greek national roundels must be changed with darker blue.

Do not use the L5,L7,L6,L4 parts they are wrong for this aircraft, you can use L9,L8.

External loads are only wing tanks and a ASTAC pod.

I hope you like it.

Athanasiadis George

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Photos and text © by Athanasiadis George