• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Scale Modelling Now

Scale Modelling Techniques

  • HOME
  • CONTENTS
    • What’s New
    • MODELLING WORKSHOPS
    • Techniques Bank
    • Aircraft
    • Classic Kit Builds
    • Armour
    • Podcasts
    • Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Space
    • Vehicles
    • Maritime
    • Figures
    • Dioramas
    • Gift Certificate
    • Book Reviews
  • WHAT WE OFFER
  • AREAS
    • Techniques Bank
    • Aircraft
    • Armour
    • Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Space
    • Vehicles
    • Maritime
    • Dioramas
    • Figures
  • FREE SAMPLES
  • EVENTS
  • ABOUT
  • TRADERS
  • CONTACT
  • LOGIN

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

May 3, 2017 By Francis Porter


Full Review by Aurelio Reale

Our thanks to Zoukei-Mura for supplying our review sample. See our full in-box review and also get this impressive kit from – here
Here Now In-Box Review


22 MAY 2022: MODELLING WORKSHOP WITH AURELIO – How to Weather Modern Navy Jets


A note from Geoff…
We were very pleased to receive this impressive kit from Zoukei-Mura. From the box contents it certainly looks the part – but how does it all build up and go together? You’re about to find out and just before Aurelio tells his story I wanted to show you a few photos of his completed model – What do you think? I love Aurelio’s approach to weathering and the finished results he achieves – pretty spectacular to my eye and so typical of how these F-4s looked in service.

Over to you Aurelio…

The Navy MiG Killer!

Story

The date was 10 May 1972. In Vietnam, the first “Linebacker” aerial bombardment campaign had just started, and the day was a bad day for the Vietnamese Peoples Air Force with nearly a dozen aircraft being shot down in aerial engagements. LT. Randy “Duke” Cunningham and his RIO, LT(JG) Willie Driscoll, were participating in an alpha strike against the Haiphong Railyards in Vietnam. Three of the day’s aerial victories were scored by “Duke” flying in “ShowTime 100”, the F-4J that is the subject of this posting.

Exactly whom “Duke” shot down on his final kill of the day, the one that made him an ace, has been the subject of conjecture. Early on, sources claimed the pilot was the top Vietnamese ace known as “Col Tomb” in the media. Becoming an ace by shooting down the opposition’s leading ace certainly makes this aerial duel one that books are written about. Later research, however, has shed more light on the subject. An article by Cookie Sewell outlines that “Col Tomb” was not the victim in Cunningham’s historic dogfight. Instead, it was most likely an un-named pilot — flight leader, squadron commander, or possibly the regimental commander — of the 923rd Regiment.

Whoever the Vietnamese pilot was, the dogfight was historic, and the victory made “Duke” Cunningham the first US ace of the Vietnam conflict. An unfortunate ending to the story is that “Duke” himself was shot down by a surface to air missile on the egress back to the carrier after becoming an ace. Hence, “ShowTime 100”, BuNo 155800, was lost within minutes of achieving her niche in the history books.

Read on…

Primary Sidebar

Login

You are not currently logged in.








» Lost your Password?

All the completed Aircraft builds.
Click on a Manufacturer below to see a list of all SMN's completed builds from their range.

BACK TO AIRCRAFT MAIN PAGE


SEARCH THE WEBSITE

Search




More results...




Generic filters

Exact matches only

Search in title

Search in content

Search in excerpt


Finished Aircraft

Academy
Accurate Miniatures
Aeroclub
AFV Club
Airfix
A-model
Airmodel
AlleyCat
AMK
AMT.ERTL
ARII
Arma
Attack Squadron
Bronco Models
Classic Airframes
Czechmaster
Dragon
Dynavector
eduard
Fisher Model
Frog
GasPatch
Grand Phoenix
Great Wall Hobby
Hasegawa
Halinski
Heller
HGW Models
HpH Models
High Planes Models
HK Models
Hobby Boss
ICM
Ideal Toy Corporation
IsraCast
Italeri
Khee Kha
Kinetic
Kitty Hawk
Lukgraph
MPM
MRC/Academy
Mach 2
Meng
Mirage Hobby
Monogram
Pacific Coast Models
RS Models
Rareplane
Revell
Roden
SBS Model
Silver Wings
Scratch-builds & Specials
Special Hobby
Sword
Takom
Tamiya
Tanmodel
Trumpeter
Valom
Vector
Vintage
Whirlybird
Wingnut Wings
Xtrakit
Zoukei Mura
Zvezda

Copyright © 2023 · Scale Modelling Now · Online Scale Modelling Magazine · Scale Modelling Techniques and Tips · Privacy Policy