k5ikl Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 First completion of 2023 (started back in Sept.) is the Monogram 1/48 F-4C of the 171st FIS of the Michigan ANG. Used Aries resin exhaust nozzles and Caracal decals, otherwise OOB. This is my 23rd Phantom. Number 24 will be finished soon. Cheers, Jerry 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Terrific build. Just love to see these kits kit the bench and the results look fantastic. twenty-three F4's ... now that's a fantastic collection for sure. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Lovely build Jerry, thank you for sharing. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k5ikl Posted January 16, 2023 Author Share Posted January 16, 2023 7 hours ago, Peterpools said: Terrific build. Just love to see these kits kit the bench and the results look fantastic. twenty-three F4's ... now that's a fantastic collection for sure. Thanks Peter. Those old Monogram/Revell kits are still fun builds. Of those 23 builds five are 1/32. Cheers, Jerry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k5ikl Posted January 16, 2023 Author Share Posted January 16, 2023 3 hours ago, Martinnfb said: Lovely build Jerry, thank you for sharing. Thanks Martin. Glad to share with you guys. Cheers, Jerry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANicoll Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Beautiful! Nicely done. How about a photo of the collection? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k5ikl Posted January 17, 2023 Author Share Posted January 17, 2023 15 hours ago, CANicoll said: Beautiful! Nicely done. How about a photo of the collection? Here you go Chris. Eighteen 1/48 and five 1/32 Phantoms along with my entire collection. Cheers, Jerry 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANicoll Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Beautiful! Thanks for sharing - and you have a LOT of space left to go! What paints/colors did you uses for the SEA Camo on your F4's? Funny, I also did Passion Wagon and Air-a-Cutie. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k5ikl Posted January 17, 2023 Author Share Posted January 17, 2023 1 hour ago, CANicoll said: Beautiful! Thanks for sharing - and you have a LOT of space left to go! What paints/colors did you uses for the SEA Camo on your F4's? Funny, I also did Passion Wagon and Air-a-Cutie. I used the Model Master standard dark tan, dark green and medium green. On one of them I tried the same colors in MRP paints. Love those paints. Cheers, Jerry 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 Jerry Thank you for posting the photographs of your display cases and collection - simple brilliant work and what a pleasure to see. Mine by comparison is plain Jane and nowhere as inspiring. How many years of work has it been? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k5ikl Posted January 18, 2023 Author Share Posted January 18, 2023 1 hour ago, Peterpools said: Jerry Thank you for posting the photographs of your display cases and collection - simple brilliant work and what a pleasure to see. Mine by comparison is plain Jane and nowhere as inspiring. How many years of work has it been? Thanks Peter. About 50 years now not counting the years when I first started as a kid in the late 40's building balsa stick and paper models and then the start of the Monogram stuff in the early 50's. Gave it up as a teenager and obtained my amateur (ham) radio license. Got back into models in the early 70's when my oldest son got interested in model rockets. Was in a K-Mart when he was 7 getting him some rocket stuff and came across the old Revell 1/32 Corsair and P-38J Lightning. Thought "why not" it would be something I could do with him and it has been downhill ever since. What I have in the display cases is just a fraction of what I have done since the mid 70's. I gave all of my 1/48th WW II builds to a local museum and started concentrating more on 1/32 builds because of the ease of seeing it better. I am 82 now. Thanks for asking. Cheers, Jerry 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 Jerry Quite a history and pretty much the same as mine. I have stops and long stops over the years and all the earlier built models until about 15 years ago were given away or tossed. At 75, I'm not too far behind you and your energy and skills are something we all should seek to emulate. 🏆 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANicoll Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 I'm 62 and you both put me to shame! I'm looking forward to being as active and hopefully continuing to do as good work for another 20 years. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted January 20, 2023 Share Posted January 20, 2023 Chris No doubt you surely will. Just take care of yourself and Lady Luck needs to be flying with you as your copilot, keeping you healthy and well. The rest will follow. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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