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On to the wings The wings are basically 2 sections inboard and outboard. I started on the right wing 1st (Republican guess). You have to build the innards 1st, the wheel well and speedbrake wells. You should gently round/crease the forward edge of the wings 1st to take out the excess...

One last demonstration of our fusing technology The last fused fuselage pic, then a nightcap and more tommorow.....

Our Awesome Alien Fusing Technology ! After letting the parts dry and watching some Invader Zim on Nick cable with the kids I decided to "Fuse" the halves together. "Oh come on your just gluing the pieces" " Yes Earth specimen but behold our advanced technology", "right it's just glue"...

More of the fuselage assembly process These pics and one of the last shows an ooopps to the after fuselage trying to bend paper in the wrong directions. I managed to salvage the sections but I'll just show the "good side" when she is finished. The other pic shows the fwd underside sans bulkheads.

Putting the long part together Well, side steps aside work finally resumed on the fuselage. I had decided to make it from both ends so that I could fit in the bulkheads to reduce that framework look that such models can get. It was working reasonably well untill it came time to join the...

Late last night John, thanks for the encouragement. In answer to one of your earlier questions, I guess the model will be @21" long. Anyways, late last night, I was toying with the aircrafts armament. I've never been a fan of the stock weaponry given most card aircraft and decided to design...

Last pics of the day. the exhaust dry fitted to the aft fuselage section, getting along.....

Jasco, thanks, Well I'm not a paper purist, if a part can be made of paper and it looks as good or better than anything else, I'll use it, Including the plastic for canopies! The little progress so far, the exhaust nozzles were a bit of a puzzle, but it was finally solved. The nozzles are made...

WOW!!! I think I started this ship a few years back and put it on hold because it was difficult as it was designed, man this is great work, great job!!

The last few days work Having finished the front fuselage section, I decided to do the back end next for a change. The tail section is a little strangely shaped, it has to incorporate the transition from the twin engine exhausts to a roughly rectangular end piece. It went together nicely with...

Glass in place Jiim and Rick, I did a post on vacuforming a ways back, I do like the idea of doing one on the box itself and more importantly the frame/holding thing that holds the plastic to melt and form. Anyways, finally finished the glass pieces. They are in place, I think I did it right...

More canopy fittings Thanks for the encouragement guys, The plastic I'm using here is vivak, you can get it in bulk @4x8 foot sheets for @ 20.00. Most plastic suppliers will cut it down for you. I'm using .020, this seems to be the thinnist plastic they sell to regular consumers. I actually...

some saturday evening fittings Hi guys, I've been busy all day with domestic stuff but have been fiddling around with the canopy bits. I've used the rougher of the 2 canopies do dry fit and see where the problems will be. So far the only down side is getting the separate sections to fit...

Thanks guys again, Ash, on the Rhino list is the F4E, I have the GPM, Maly and Hobby Model versions. The GPM is almost exactly the same as thier c model with the Gun and ANG low vis gray scheme. The Hobby model version looks alittle better and more accurate, ie has wing root bulges, and some...

The fly in the ointment Here are the pics of the blemish and the culprit. This section will be covered up with the frame so no harm no foul, but beware, the vac picks up all sorts of imperfections. This can be of use when you may want to mold in some details but for now it is just a pain...

We Have Glass! Well this am proved fruitful... so far so good. I polished up the molds and set to forming. I used .020 vivak that I bought as a 4x8 sheet and cut it to fit the frame. I placed the mold up in the box heated the plastic so it sagged -Alot! The ist run was good but the glass...

Thanks guys one and all, hope to keep up the momentum. It sounds reassuring that the pieces method for the canopy may work. I spent the am polishing and mating up the 2 sculpey molds and they mate together perfectly. I haven't decided on canopy up or down, I usually leave them down ready...

Having finished the forward fuselage the canopy needed to be formed. I usually vacuform my own and am going to do this for this kit also. However as I first built up the spare canopy I found the darn thing is too long for my home brewed vacuformer, so I decided to cut the canopy in 2 sections...

On with the build. The kit has a few problems, the sparrow troughs are a little short and have a curious notch that doesn't quite fill the fuselage bottom. I redrew new ones, you can see the original plain white one and the redraw in the pic. The air splitters and intake were pretty...

Hi all. it's been awhile since I posted a thread or have seriously started cutting and folding. I thought I'd start the New Year with my all time phavourite aircraft, the F4 Phantom. Designed by McDonnell-Douglas, taking ideas from thier F3 Demon aircraft and a few new ones they came up witha...