Scale Aviation Modeller International — November 2017

The finished look

The seats are

Eduard Brassin

resin items.....

.....with etched

harnesses

leave the burner cans until later

in the build to protect the resin

structure and paint. I glued the

exhausts and intakes in place ready

for the fuselage to be joined up,

but before doing this I decided to

make up the wing structures as

these would be used as a guide

for getting the fuselage in place.

The fuselage slotted in place

and was glued together, and I

then added the intake fronts and

splitter plates. The last step before

doing this was to add the HUD and

front windscreen. The HUD itself

is etched brass, which I bent into

shape and added the glass. The

armoured glass on the windscreen

was painted in Alclad Armoured

Glass. I used the supplied masks

on the front windscreen and glued

this in place using some Formula

560 canopy glue. In preparation for

painting the wheel wells, I used

masking putty, which is extremely

useful when it comes to painting

camouflage schemes. I used Mr

Surfacer 1200, thinned with Mr

Color Self Levelling Thinner, with

a touch of Black added, as this

gives a good hard wearing Dark

Grey surface to apply the paint too.

For this build I used the Hataka

AS-18 US Navy and US Marines

High Viz Red Line Acrylic Set and

HTK-XP03 Hataka Orange Line

Lacquer Thinner (HLT). The paint

scheme I used was HTK-A048 Light

Gull Grey over HTK-A049 Insignia

White. I mixed up the first batch

of Gull Grey and mixed it with the

thinner in roughly a 1:4 basis. This

sprayed beautifully through my

Iwata HP-C+ airbrush’s .3 nozzle

KIT DETAILS

F-4J ROCKIN RHINO

MANUFACTURER: EDUARD

SCALE: 1:48

KIT TYPE: PLASTIC INJECTION MOULDED

WITH RESIN AND ETCH

KIT NUMBER: 1143

The seats were brush painted with

Hataka Blue Line Paints

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