Jay Blakemore Strays from His Comfort Zone with a

Quick Build of Zoukei-Mura’s 1/48 F4-C Phantom II

CONFUSING CONTENTS

A

visit to Zoukei-Mura’s

website in search of

anecdotal information

to begin this article resulted in

wading through paragraphs of

confusing prose, the meaning

of which, it seemed, has

become somewhat garbled in

translation. Other than the

photographic evidence of their

growing range of large-scale

kits, figures and accessories,

there was little information of

any relevance about the Japanese

manufacturer worth sharing,

other than the year of their

establishment, which is 1992.

This fact came as something

of a surprise to me as I had been

unaware of the company’s existence

until fairly recently with the

appearance in the modelling press

of their full-page advertisements.

Quite what Zoukei-Mura have

been doing in the intervening

years remains unclear; what

is clear is the prodigious

rate at which they are

releasing new products.

Their ever-growing range of

aeronautical subjects has

received much acclaim,

and one such new release

is kit Number Six in

Zoukei-Mura’s Super

Wings Series: the

F4-C Phantom II.

Packaged within

an impressively large

top-opening box,

which is emblazoned with some

very fine artwork, are nine grey

sprues, a single sprue containing

the clear parts, and a large and

colourful Cartograf decal sheet

featuring a single colour-scheme

option. The 31-page instruction

PHANTOM

Full-on

QUICKBUILD

30 • OCTOBER 2018 • SCALE AVIATION MODELLER INTERNATIONAL

BY SACCO DE VRIES

F4-C PHANTOM II

BY JAY BLAKEMORE

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