The rear section of the Phantom in the form for the C and D versions. A cast replacement for the plastic parts of the large scale Tamiya kit.
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The Phantom came about as a carrier fighter, and even though the US Air Force flew it from concrete runways, it carried its shipboard legacy on. The F-4C and F-4D versions therefore kept the tailhook under the rear fuselage, the robust landing gear and a structure suited to a hard touchdown. On the aircraft that flew over Southeast Asia from the mid-1960s, the rear end was among the most heavily loaded and dirtiest places on the whole airframe.
A characteristic feature is the one-piece horizontal tail surfaces angled markedly downward. It was not decoration: the anhedral took the surfaces out of the wake of the wing at high angles of attack. Around the nozzles the airframe also carries heat-resistant panels, which in service were burned into a varied palette of metal shades, and it is exactly those that make the rear end the most rewarding place on the whole model.
The plastic rear end tends to be split lengthwise and the seam runs exactly across panels that should stay smooth. A one-piece casting removes that seam and at the same time carries crisper engraving of the transitions between the plates.
The set is built for the Tamiya kit in 1:32 scale. Before gluing it is sensible just to slot the parts together and check whether the upper spine and the lines of the panels line up; any difference is evened out by shimming with thin plastic rather than by filling the whole joint.
The metal shades are laid on panel by panel and only then unified with a thin glaze, or the result looks like a single shiny sheet.
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