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ERTL F-4 Wild Weasel 1/48

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    November 2003
  • From: State of Mississippi. State motto: Virtute et armis (By valor and arms)
Posted by mississippivol on Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:13 PM

Great job! I'm thinking that the kit is an ESCI mold, which except for the cockpit, builds into a pretty accurate Phantom. I have the Testors(Italeri) kit in my closet, and it has the same issue with the cockpit, but the lines are raised where the ESCI kits were scribed.

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    April 2014
Posted by B_one fixer on Tuesday, June 17, 2014 7:07 PM

Thanks, It sure did have alot of seams. Nothing that a little Tamiya white putty could take care of.

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    February 2014
Posted by USMC6094 on Tuesday, June 17, 2014 6:39 PM

Man that is NICE

I hope it didn't have the Gawd awful seams like the Ertl kit I'm laboring over right now

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    April 2014
ERTL F-4 Wild Weasel 1/48
Posted by B_one fixer on Tuesday, June 17, 2014 6:35 PM

I dug this kit out last weekend to build. It only took a week since there were very few parts to this kit. It lacks allot of detail but is a good quick kit to slap together. It is an old kit that I remember seeing back when I was younger.  I pretty much built it straight from the box with no aftermarket or scratch building.

The majority of the kit fit together excellent. The canopies were the toughest part of the kit. Nothing lined up and there were gaps all over the place with the canopies. It's a good starter kit for someone to learn on. Since I have 3 of these kits, well 2 now that are un-built I figured I would slap this together during the weekends.

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