Hi guys, Hi you all
Thank you soooooo much for your very kind words. Please keep me on earth, don't send me to Mars!!!
I am happy that these models please you, especially so for the HAF Phantom.
Prokroust : a reply to your questions.
- Painting : all camos were painted freehand, including (I bet that's your question) the F-4E. A technique using Humbrol Maskol was exerciced on the VF-2 F-14D for all the light grey over the turtleback panel lines.All other paintings are painted freehand. I may try and decided blutak on a future project with USAF Vietnam camo. Contrast between greens and tan might be heavier than on HAF Ghost camoflage. I'll strat freehand but I admit I may have to adapt myself.
- I like to give some details to my cockpits and I will use as much as I can and what is available. In the best of instances I'll drop a resin set (that's the case with my current F-18C Hornet. In the case of Hasegawa Tomcats I usually consider that Hasegawa cockpits are closely as sharp as the Verlinden older resin cockpit. I might try a Aires Cockpit in a future project. F-14D was built with box cockpit and PE set. Knowing my aircraft (both VF-2 and VF-31 were LANTIRN and PTID equipped) I modified rear cockpit with a square screen built from thin plastic card and side control on left console. Rest of cockpit si stock except ejection seats that are True Details resin.
HAF Phantom cockpit was built with mostly Eduard PE set as designed for Hasegawa F-4E but modified with thin plastic card again for CRT screens. I also cut PE parts to build upmy cockpits to ressemble documents that were generously presented by mates from this forum. This therefore is a mix of box, Eduard PE, resin seats and plastic card.
I did not want to go to far but wanted to show something in accordance with the version I built (ie did not want toi show a plain and older USAF F-4E cockpit for the modernized HAF aircraft.
Cheers
Eric B.
