Replacement exhaust nozzles of the Spey engines for the British Phantom in 1:72 scale, intended for Airfix kits.
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Re-engining the Phantom with British Rolls-Royce Spey turbofans was not a cosmetic change. The engine needed a greater airflow, so the intakes and the rear part of the fuselage had to be widened, and above all it ended up with differently arranged nozzles, which project markedly from the airframe and have a larger diameter than on the American machines. From behind, the British version is therefore recognized at once and without any knowledge of national markings.
An injection mold cannot draw a nozzle through on the inside, so it tends to be shallow or even blanked off, and its rim comes out needlessly thick. The printed replacement is hollowed out to a real depth and the edge stays thin, as it should be. The difference is best seen precisely on a model laid on a shelf with its tail toward the viewer. A thinned edge also takes metallic shades better, because the light on it does not break into a wide band.
Check the openings in the fuselage with a caliper and carefully widen any excess plastic with a round file. Start the finish with a dark metal base coat, then add blue and brown casts toward the end and finally dust it with a soot pigment, because it is exactly the thermally loaded tail that turns a clean model into a machine that flew.
Anyone building the British version from the Airfix box will reach for this set as the very first accessory. The ratio of work put in to the visible result is exceptionally favorable here.
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