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Zoukei-Mura F-4E Phantom II Early 1:48 – build review

September 23, 2020 By Francis Porter 2 Comments

Zoukei-Mura F-4E Phantom II Early 1:48

Super Wings Series No.10

Full Review with Geoff Coughlin
Zoukei-Mura F-4E Phantom II Early 1:48

Opening thoughts and the plan

To say I was excited about building this new-tool release is an understatement, the interest only increasing when browsing the contents of the box. You may want to take a look at my In-Box Browse video review.

You can never be sure when exactly a model will arrive and after starting two other new projects they have been set to one side so that I can press on and bring you a full build review of this kit as soon as possible.

References

• Verlinden Lock-On No.8 for the F-4E Phantom II is superb as are all their books, if you can get hold of it. This is my primary reference for the build
• Internet images.

So what’s the plan?

Quite simply to build this model out of the box as much as possible. I notice that there are no seat belts included so I’ll source those from elsewhere and maybe a very few other small touches like RBF tags? Not sure yet and a long way to go first before we need to think about such things.

What a coincidence…

October 2020: Just after completing this build…

…I had the pleasure to review an excellent new book written by Col Steve Ladd USAF (Retired)

Steve made contact by way of a thank you for my review and he has also very kindly sent me three photos to publish here…

Steve Ladd photo-Dusty and Me

As I had finished the model I wanted to send Steve a few photos of the completed ZM F-4E build…

…and he replied:
“Wow! Magnificent work. Sadly, I never had the patience, but you’ve really captured the soul of the bird with this!” Steve Ladd
Very humbling :)

OK, so on with the build…

Almost inevitably we start in the cockpit and the ejection seats are very nice multi-part assemblies. The seat top ejection handles are very delicate and I was a bit inept at cleaning up the sprue gates and so these will be replaced with thin wire later.

Read on…

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Comments

  1. Richard Allen says

    December 6, 2022 at 9:05 pm

    Great build review, just got the 1/48 ZM F4E Early so will be using this as a reference! Going to build in tandem with Academy1/48 F4C Vietnam so wish me luck! Lol

  2. Geoff Coughlin says

    December 9, 2022 at 11:13 am

    Great stuff Richard – you’ll love the build. This one ended up as one of the best and most enjoyable models I’ve ever built :) Good luck with your builds. GC

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