Hello, everyone. This is Hasegawa’s historical 1st Phantom (1/48), released on Dec. 1982. I hope you like it.
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This kit may not be the best-Phantom today. However, it could be still a good entry-kit for beginners, and a fun-challenge for skilled modelers.
I built this kit about 4 years ago, after storage of just 30 years. Unlike the kit on
the market today, it was molded with raised panel-lines. So I re-engraved them. Just 30 years ago, most of modelers did it as an usual routine, as long as I remember.
It does not supply so heavily-detailed parts of today’s standards like Academy (before completion, I never knew that Zoukeimura’s new kit was coming). I didn’t intend to compete with Academy, but made some additional work on cockpit, canopy, wheel-wells, intake-ducts, auxiliary-inlets, and engine-nozzles, just for my private satisfaction.
I chose the coloring VF-84 AE200 with black nose. Most of markings could be supplied from the decal in kit despite it is originally for AE206 “White-Nose”. Unfortunately, white markings including the most important “Skull & Crossbones” had been tanned by age. So I managed to paint them with masking by hand. But I did never know that the stars of the actual AE200’s rudder were multi-colored.