In Her Majesty's Service

René van der Hart builds the Revell (ex-Hasegawa) 1/48 F-4M Phantom FGR.2

- René van der Hart

The British Phantoms, both Royal Navy and RAF variants, were based on theUS Navy F-4J version. British Phantoms wouldn't be British if there were some major modifications made to original airframe, most noticeably, the Rolls Royce Spey engines, that replaced the General Electric J-79 engines. The British Phantoms were loved by aircraft enthousiasts and are still very populair among scale modelers.

Revell's re-release of the Hasegawa kit is the only version currently available in 1/48 scale.

The original Hasegawa kit was released for the first time in the mid-eighties and has been re-released in several variants over the years with different decal options. The Revell rebox gives you a choice of both camouflaged and grey versions. I chose the latter one but ordered an aftermarket decals set by Xtradecal to build an aicraft from 41 sqn, an Aires resin cockpit set also was ordered for this build.