omegaman Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Merry christmas all! This was supposed to be for the world naval forces group build, but I got bored in the past couple of weeks and decided to build this for my dads christmas present. He served on 892NAS throughout and siad that the Colonial Zap was his favourite aircraft. This zap came about when 892 squadron were operating from NAS Oceana on the last cruise of the Ark Royal in 1978, the US mob decided to paint stars on the fuselage and then paint over Royal with Colonial. It is an interesting subject. The kit is the Revell FGR2 which has been fitted to be an FG.1, with slotted stabilisers and the extended noseleg (but in the retracted position) from my FG.1 kit. The kit is spot on as we would expect, some issues with the intakes as we all know. I decided to add home made evergreen FOD covers to rectify the short length of the intake track. Remove before flight tags were printed and glued on. The seats were the excellent airwaves Martin Baker Mk7's. THe kit was painted using Tamiya Ocean Grey AS-10 rattle can as I feel that this gives a nice weathered EDSG. Lower surfaces were in Citadel Skull White Primer. Decals were from the excellent model alliance set and were set using Micro Sol, which got them into the finely recessed panel lines. Weathering was achieved with washes of Tamiya flat black, dark grey and smoke colours. A dusting of highly thinned tamiya dark sea grey was blotched over to add that weathered feel of the actual aircraft. This was finally sealed in with humbrol spray satin varnish. The metal areas were done using Halfords wheel paint and shading with humbrol metalcote (i think it was titanium but who knows!) My dad loves it! It was great fun to build and with his knowledge of the subject and I achieved a model I am proud of. I have another 2 to build in addition to a zapped USMC Italeri F4J for the group build. The encouragement and inspiration from this site is brilliant! MErry Christmas and enjoy Anthony And some in build Anthony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamus Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Looks great fella Looking forward to seeing more builds like this in the Naval GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bexwh773 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Looks great fella Looking forward to seeing more builds like this in the Naval GB That looks bloody amazing Thanks for sharing Bex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHREAK Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Absolutely wonderful job! BTW, less of the F4K already....that's for them pesky mericuns. (gag OK?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kstater94 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Very nice Anthony! I plan on building an FG.1 for the Naval Forces GB. I have ALWAYS loved Phantoms in Royal Navy markings. I too have that decal sheet (although I'm not as partial to the "Colonial Navy" markings even though I live over here in the U.S.). I had read somewhere that XV590's serial was painted out on the undersides of the wings and that there was some "tongue in cheek" comment that was painted in the serial number's place. However, it was deemed inapropriate to return to the Ark with that on the aircraft and the comment was painted over... Does your dad remember this? Would he happen to know what was written? Again, nice build! Cheers! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegaman Posted December 24, 2008 Author Share Posted December 24, 2008 I had read somewhere that XV590's serial was painted out on the undersides of the wings and that there was some "tongue in cheek" comment that was painted in the serial number's place. However, it was deemed inapropriate to return to the Ark with that on the aircraft and the comment was painted over... Does your dad remember this? Would he happen to know what was written?John John, and everyone thanks for the comments! I will enquire about this, I have seen a Sea Vixen which had 'For Sale' written on it by the aussies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seavixenxj494 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 best phantom ive ever seen !!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Nice. Must build mine this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanrgb Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Fantastic job you have done on this bird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegaman Posted December 26, 2008 Author Share Posted December 26, 2008 Thanks guys for all of your comments! Merry christmas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousDFB1 Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Fantastic job, I that a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian1 Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Beautifully done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizzy Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Very nice.Unusual markings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntPhillips Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Hi Anthony, Great build, you're right the ocean Grey does give a very realistic weathered EDSG finish, nice tip Cheers Ant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacificmustang Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Terrifib uild Omegaman, and a great post that summarises everything you did to the kit, very informative reading Regards Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dahut Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Nice looking Phantom. Leave it to those cheeky Yanks to pull a stunt like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage55 Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Very nice! I'm partial to that scheme as well and you sure have done an excellent job of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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