Off The Books - Meng 1/48 F-4E Phantom II 

Very tidy build! Love the Greek jets and you nailed it.

Good evening John, I have nothing too pressing to do at work tonight ( nightvshift ) so I havev watched this video, and I was blown away with how great the finish was, you have completed a really outstanding job, congratulations on a job well done, very best to you and Mrs G from Kiwi living in Australia 👍👍👍👍

Hi John, good work on the phantom! Some info about the HAF F-4s, you need to remove the Litening pod if you want to be accurate. It is used only by the upgraded F-4E AUP phantoms operated by 338SQ ‘Ares’. These planes have 4 IFF ‘bird slicers’ in front of the canopy also the cockpit arrangement is different including new MFD monitors. The Meng kit provides everything for a classic late Echo variant. Regards from Athens Greece!

I absolutely love it. I’m a Greek American and love the Hellenic Air Force. I’d love to have this build. Don’t know if I could ever replicate it. Bravo!

Fantastic build and love that you did something different in Greek markings.

I concur with your comments. I just built a highly weathered Egyptian version. As you said it’s a great kit. I used Eduard seatbelts as the ejection seats a bit sparse in detail.

Lovely build. Sublime paintwork.

This kit is indeed excellent, a lot of fun to build. The seats need to be replaced or at least add a seat harness . The only problem with this kit I found was the weird box above the nose gear bay. I couldn't get the bottom nose panel to sit correctly with that box in the way, so I removed it and everything just snapped together.

Top job on that John. I’ve got the F-4G version of that kit and it appears just as good in the box. Looking forward to breaking it out once I get back off vacation. Currently in San Diego, CA.

I think you’ve just sold the idea of me getting this kit.!.Ok not hard to do being I’ve always been a MASSIVE F-4 fan but I keep hearing so much good about this kit that watching your video has put the cherry on top of this choice..Your build looks just marvelous and classic nato F-4. Thanks for your video and all the best from Blighty.!🇬🇧🇺🇸👍

Great work John, thanks for sharing!

Great work as always. On my list of items to build.

Awesome build, and awesome finish! Darn thing looks real. But just for future reference, The flaps (adjacent to the body) are never down when the airplane is sitting at rest. Only the ailerons are down, (aileron droop) because of lack of hydraulic pressure. The flaps on the otherhand are held up mechanically and must be held in the extended (down) by hydraulic pressure. Without pressure they remain retracted (up). But this is not your fault, its Mengs fault. They make the modeler "think" they can model them down (ok for inflight), but unless the engines are running, is not accurate to have them down. But non of this takes away from your fantastic work! Nice Job on the build. I'm impressed and love it!

Nice to see other livery than usual SEA !🤔 Jman

My friend I think this is your best build... cheers from Argentina!

Just ordered this one, good comments. also got Quinta studios 3d cockpit decals.

looks great the camo looks awesome !!

Looks sharp!

It’s a nice build!

very nicely done. always have liked the Greek F-4's. How did you do the cammo? freehand or masks? Three toned cammo schemes are a pain....I've done a few (USN aggressors and IAF Falcons). Got me a Meng F-4E coming and some SWS EJ's in the stash. Need to do a side by side build to see how they compare. No doubt they will not come close to the Tamiya kit.

Nice job! I just got this kit the other day. Are you going to OKC this weekend for Soonercon?

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Thanks

the model is very beautiful. What brand of matte varnish did you use? What are the mixing ratios? thanks

Amazing finish! What final coat did you use?

hi John ! i don't know if you can help me the under belly should have that renforcement strips like on the G version ? or is just made it for the G ? thanks

Ich habe den Bausatz gerade bekommen !!!!!! Mal schauen .