Shubie

Cunningham’s F-4J Since I started this, let me explain. If anyone knows the history of this particular plane they would know that after they got their last mig kill. The plane was lost, the pilot and rio ejected and survived. Therefore this particular planes photos, show no arrow on the stabilators. This arrow on the stabilators is shown on every Monogram, Hasagawa, etc. kit that are in my collection, therefore the manufacturers need to create the proper stabilators for Navy F-4’s. The easy correction is to just sand off the arrow and rescribe the straight line top and bottom. Not that hard of a fix. The author put a lot of extra things in this kit. I just feel, if you or anybody else did the extra work he did, it wouldn’t take that much more to correct the stabilators. Thats all I was trying to say, and with that I will not bother to nit pick ever again. As was mentioned before, build what you want.

As far as I can see from my references, all Navy Phantoms had no arrows on the stabilators. This is from the Bert Kinsey book. If you have it, it’s in Detail & Scale Vol. 12. I am bringing this up due to the latest issue of the Journal. Which has an excellent article on the 1/48th scale F-4J. In my collection of references, an excellent photo is shown of this particular aircraft, in squadron/signal publications Aircraft #65, page 48. This not to be nitpicking, but kits don’t always have the right parts, and sometimes need to be corrected. Thanks, Shubie