Hey Dusan are you interested in building an F-8 crusader from academy in 1/72 scale? The detail is wonderful and the aircraft is underrated and shadowed by th f-4 phantom. Great aircraft and you would make it great too!
I've been watching these vids for the past week. I've always wanted to get into this hobby, but not confident enough in my detail skills to do it and equipments costs hurt lol. Great channel and top-notch work!
Beautiful job as always! These videos are an example of how quick-cut, wordless, instructional presentations can teach so much. I get tired of wordy, rambling instructors who um and ah their way through long vids that, at best, give us no better instructions and examples in an hour than ScaleModelAircraft provides wordlessly in under 20 minutes! Even a beginner with the right tools and a few of these videos under their belt ought to be able to come up with very presentable work. Well done all around!
You should be careful with academy... This is a perfect kit you had, but I think this is an early piece of the product's production. I heared that they buy the frame, which can produce 50 000 models safely, and they produce approx 600 000 with it... And according to that the late model kits are less accurate. This is a rumor, but I experienced it too. One of my buddies bought a mig-29 1/48 from them, and he had everything in place, and I bought the same kit 2 years later well... mine was not that bad either, but significantly worse than his.
I am 47 years old I have been doing modeling on and of trough out my life. I remember the 1970’s kits. The aircraft painted as display was not even close to today’s modeling. I guess now we have better technology or something..I don’t know. But this model is for display somewhere other than inside your house, maybe like your local library war section book aisle.I really don’t know. All I know it’s a wonderful piece of art.
i hope the decals for this kit work better than the ones for the F/A-18 because they resisted all attempts to stick to the model, i used a gloss coat actually i coated the kit twice with gloss and used Micro Sol & Set Solutions and still they peeled off, even after i gave them two coats of flat clear from a spray can!
Modeling has come a long long way since I build models in the early eighties as a kid. I remember seeing the finished model pictures on the kit box and telling myself that I wish I could one day build a perfect model like the one they showed in the model kit box. Now that I see how awesome and realistic the models are assembled, the pictures on the old model kits look unrealistic and tacky.
USS Roosevelt? That's a ship that hasn't existed for close to 40 years now. It was the second Midway Class aircraft carrier, the first unit of the three to be scrapped (1980). It was scrapped first because it didn't undergo the comprehensive rebuild and refit that its sister ship, USS Midway, did so consequently the Roosevelt was in VERY poor condition by the mid-1970s and the US Navy decided to retire it early after conducting experiments with Harriers (AV-8A model) in 1977(?). The last Phantom assignment aboard that ship was 1970-1975, this very squadron depicted in the model. They were flying F-4N's (upgraded B-model rebuilds) at the end before the transitioned to the F-14 in 1976. Afterwards, VF-84 transferred to the Nimitz in 1977. In 1979, VF-84 participated in the filming of the movie, "The Final Countdown," which was the motion picture debut of the F-14 Tomcat, WELL before "Top Gun" (1986).
Dusan I have some questions: 1. The big decals: Are a some kind of trick to save the surface detail when we put the decal over it? I mean, all the rivet lines disappear, or shows like that. 2. Could yoy show (in a list) the youtube music themes that you use in each video? Thanks !!
Well, you can use solvent like Mr.Softer and Mr.Setter for decals. But for really large thin decals avoid using to much solvent. And leave the decals after the application of Mr.Softer. They can melt and conform on surface nicely so you will be able to see the rivets and panels. For thicker decals you need more persuading and repeat method. Toothpick can help. All the best! Dusan.
Dusan, 1/72 scale kits usually have a hard time really delivering on detail....mot so on this kit, it beautiful !! In fact all of the recent 1/48 & 1/72 kits recently released by Academy have in fact changed my mind on that. As I've witnessed over the last 3 years your excellent skills help tremendously, however, as I said, these kits look like from a standpoint of design, high attention to detail along with what appears to be a fit like that of Bandai's snap kits which any modeler would appreciate ! Thanks for sharing and all the very best to you, Wakeman
Awesome Job!!! I just bought this kit, but I think mine is an older issue as the parts don’t break down the same way, I.e. no one piece fuselage, limited engine and intake details and only decals for one aircraft.
Dusan I had the urge to view this again as I have bought the kit - thanks for build. Just one question what model of Tamiya sprue cutter are you using? I bought some side cutter but they look to be of a lesser quality. Dave
Dave, you are welcome! Thank you! I am using as my favorite Tamiya pointed side cutter (older black matt look) and regular Tamiya side cutter (chrome). But there is also a new type sharp pointed, similar to pointed sids cutter but with more pointed tip. All the best!! Dusan.
I don't get it... how many references are there on the F-4. How many models have been produced on F-4/ How many aftermarket Ejections seats for the F-4 have been made. All that money you pay for this kit and they cannot get the correct shape of the ejection seat headrest? SMDH.
MIne just came in the mail yesterday . I am happy to see that the plane looks really great when finished.
So this is how the robots take over. Starting with the teeth. I can't wait until they get to the larynx!
Hey Dusan are you interested in building an F-8 crusader from academy in 1/72 scale? The detail is wonderful and the aircraft is underrated and shadowed by th f-4 phantom. Great aircraft and you would make it great too!
Very good. I enjoy your work.
I've been watching these vids for the past week. I've always wanted to get into this hobby, but not confident enough in my detail skills to do it and equipments costs hurt lol. Great channel and top-notch work!
just get a hobby knife and a airfix starter set and you should be good. if you're starting the model doesn't need to be good.
Stunning work this is excellent. Love watching your videos as they are a great reference tool. Keep up the outstanding work.
Thanks Tim! All the best! Dusan.
Superb ☺
Thanks Tom! All the best! Dusan.
Dusan I would like to see you assemble the B-36 Peacemaker!
As always great work Dusan. I do have a question though, what is the sticky stuff you use to hold some of your pieces while you spray them?
Beautiful job as always! These videos are an example of how quick-cut, wordless, instructional presentations can teach so much. I get tired of wordy, rambling instructors who um and ah their way through long vids that, at best, give us no better instructions and examples in an hour than ScaleModelAircraft provides wordlessly in under 20 minutes! Even a beginner with the right tools and a few of these videos under their belt ought to be able to come up with very presentable work.
Well done all around!
Really nice job!
Thanks! All the best! Dusan.
what are you using to fix up the canopy?
Dusan....great works :-)!!! One question.....What pressure use in the airbrush???? Great Video...
What do you use to remove excess glue, that you applied on the outside of the seems???
Great video, nice editing, and of course.. excellent build!
Do you have a fan page or something? Facebook...anything?
I love your models! Good job! :)
Thanks! All the best! Dusan.
What are those backer cards thongs you stick your pieces to?
Did you paint the cockpit?
Where can I find that glue?
You should be careful with academy... This is a perfect kit you had, but I think this is an early piece of the product's production. I heared that they buy the frame, which can produce 50 000 models safely, and they produce approx 600 000 with it... And according to that the late model kits are less accurate. This is a rumor, but I experienced it too. One of my buddies bought a mig-29 1/48 from them, and he had everything in place, and I bought the same kit 2 years later well... mine was not that bad either, but significantly worse than his.
This is a new tool Phantom! Excellent kit... 1/48 Mig-29A/UB is older tool from 1993. All the best! Dusan.
ACADEMYの商品は買わない！
I am 47 years old I have been doing modeling on and of trough out my life. I remember the 1970’s kits. The aircraft painted as display was not even close to today’s modeling. I guess now we have better technology or something..I don’t know. But this model is for display somewhere other than inside your house, maybe like your local library war section book aisle.I really don’t know. All I know it’s a wonderful piece of art.
Супер! VF-84 самый лучший вариант окраски для Phantom US NAVI
i hope the decals for this kit work better than the ones for the F/A-18 because they resisted all attempts to stick to the model, i used a gloss coat actually i coated the kit twice with gloss and used Micro Sol & Set Solutions and still they peeled off, even after i gave them two coats of flat clear from a spray can!
Job well done just buy this one yesterday for a really cheap price......
Great kit but the canopy in one piece? Why not another in 4 for an open version?
Great work, i just got that plane for christmas.
you helped me build my firat plane, thanks a lot dusan
Modeling has come a long long way since I build models in the early eighties as a kid. I remember seeing the finished model pictures on the kit box and telling myself that I wish I could one day build a perfect model like the one they showed in the model kit box. Now that I see how awesome and realistic the models are assembled, the pictures on the old model kits look unrealistic and tacky.
USS Roosevelt? That's a ship that hasn't existed for close to 40 years now. It was the second Midway Class aircraft carrier, the first unit of the three to be scrapped (1980). It was scrapped first because it didn't undergo the comprehensive rebuild and refit that its sister ship, USS Midway, did so consequently the Roosevelt was in VERY poor condition by the mid-1970s and the US Navy decided to retire it early after conducting experiments with Harriers (AV-8A model) in 1977(?).
The last Phantom assignment aboard that ship was 1970-1975, this very squadron depicted in the model. They were flying F-4N's (upgraded B-model rebuilds) at the end before the transitioned to the F-14 in 1976. Afterwards, VF-84 transferred to the Nimitz in 1977. In 1979, VF-84 participated in the filming of the movie, "The Final Countdown," which was the motion picture debut of the F-14 Tomcat, WELL before "Top Gun" (1986).
Dusan I have some questions:
1. The big decals: Are a some kind of trick to save the surface detail when we put the decal over it? I mean, all the rivet lines disappear, or shows like that.
2. Could yoy show (in a list) the youtube music themes that you use in each video?
Thanks !!
Well, you can use solvent like Mr.Softer and Mr.Setter for decals. But for really large thin decals avoid using to much solvent. And leave the decals after the application of Mr.Softer. They can melt and conform on surface nicely so you will be able to see the rivets and panels. For thicker decals you need more persuading and repeat method. Toothpick can help. All the best! Dusan.
Love your video and build.... but one thing is driving me crazy ..... What is the first music title??? please lets us know :)
The last couple of years Academy has produced some fantastic kits, simple to build, great decals.
Yeah best 72 scale jet range out there!
Also what is the polish stuff you used on the canopy? I’ve used future/pledge but that stuff looks great!
Polishing compound (use fine or extra fina) All the best! Dusan.
Dusan, 1/72 scale kits usually have a hard time really delivering on detail....mot so on this kit, it beautiful !! In fact all of the recent 1/48 & 1/72 kits recently released by Academy have in fact changed my mind on that. As I've witnessed over the last 3 years your excellent skills help tremendously, however, as I said, these kits look like from a standpoint of design, high attention to detail along with what appears to be a fit like that of Bandai's snap kits which any modeler would appreciate !
Thanks for sharing and all the very best to you,
Wakeman
Great build ! Just got a couple of this kit and now you gave me the inspiration to build ! Hope you and your family are well ! Take care, Tony
If you want to make diorama, i think this Fantom you could use to Vietnam diorama.
Is there a different effect when spray a semi-gloss clear before the decal ?
Awesome Job!!! I just bought this kit, but I think mine is an older issue as the parts don’t break down the same way, I.e. no one piece fuselage, limited engine and intake details and only decals for one aircraft.
good job F-4j Phantom
Thanks! All the best! Dusan.
Great build , I love your technique. Any reason for not painting the cockpit interior?
Thanks! Please look closer, the cockpit is painted (FS36231/Black,D.Gray, green etc...) All the best! Dusan.
Клёпка замылена или очень невыразительная. Грунтовка и краска её зальют 100%. Надо углублять...Цена дорогая для такой пресс-формы.
멋집니다. 아카데미 모델킷 저 초등학교때랑 완전히 다르네요. 정말 좋습니다.
Very nice build 👍 👍 👍
Your video is my favourite chanel
Thank You!! All the best! Dusan.
Great build, I'm so slow building, that would take me 40-60 hrs.
Incredible!
Could you make a video on how you weather your aircraft. It looks so natural and nice!
Would have been my airplane. Damn even if I'd have had to buy a farm in NV to fly in one. My housemate did.
Really enjoyable videos. Your work and attention to detail are amazing. Thanks!
I am very glad that You like my work! Thank You! All the best! Dusan.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing - I recently picked up the 'ShowTime 100' boxing of this kit! I can hardly wait to get started!
Great job!!....
you should build the new tamiya f14 kit with the same squadron would be a nice pair of jets from different eras
I don´t have the new F-14 kit, maby I will buy that kit, I dont know. All the best! Dusan.
Tamiya makes it it just came out its about $100 but it's a nice kit
Donnie Greenway
Shii.. my friend has the hasegawa one for only 15-20 dollars
wait, so from about 15:35 and 16:34 you actually removed parts of the plane even though you glued them?
What are you using to tack your small pieces to that holding material for painting?
Blue tack/ White tack / pata fix. All the best! Dusan.
Brilliant......! Where did you get that nifty yellow paint bottle cap remover.
Thanks!! From GSI creos, great stuff, You can find it on-line very cheap. Thanks for the comment! All the best! Dusan.
I am starting with this hobby and U are my inspiration...thank U🍻
Great build and amazing work, but I would much rather hear you talk and explain your work
Amazing work as always Dusan!
Thank You Alex!! :-) All the best! Dusan.
Great job!
Could u show us how you applied decals on misslies as well?
what the heck happens when the paint touches the blue surface? do you whipe it or replace it?
Yes, I buy the new one. :-/ All the best! Dusan.
Great builds..Great videos...Thanks!!
Great Job Dusan
Thanks!! All the best! Dusan.
only in dreams have I seen a model fit together so good
Very good fit. All the best! Dusan.
Really enjoyed the video and you made a wonderful job of the kit, thanks for the inspiration Mike Harris
Have you ever had an idea to build F-4E Phantom II in 1/32 scale by Tamiya?(or Revell)
Yes, but so many projects... ah. All the best!! Dusan.
Wonderful model!
The three colour sprues remind me the old matchbox kits
Excelent job
Me to, like old Bf-109E in 72nd scale... Thanks! All the best! Dusan.
Love the video getting back into it again just got this exact kit what was the paint ratio you used to airbrush?
Cool! For general airbrushing 50-50mix, for fine line spraying 35%paint 65%thinner (approximately). All the best!! Dusan
Thanks
One other question. For you when you painted with black was that a primer paint ?
Do a showcase of your collection. Should be very interesting.
Maby :-) Thank You! All the best! Dusan.
Great video, the blue gloves, really!
Amazing work Dusan
Thanks Daniele! All the best! Dusan.
such amazing quality and detail in your videos! keep it up please!
excellent build!, nice to see some F4 love!.
Thanks Matthew, All the best! Dusan.
Revell phantom 1/72,the fit is awful so many molding lines
Holly shit kkkkkk beautiful job... astonishing kit!!!!👌👌👌👌
Awesome! Another superb build, Dusan!
Thank You Ray also for this comment! All the best! Dusan.
Fantastic, looks amazing
Dusan I had the urge to view this again as I have bought the kit - thanks for build. Just one question what model of Tamiya sprue cutter are you using? I bought some side cutter but they look to be of a lesser quality. Dave
Dave, you are welcome! Thank you! I am using as my favorite Tamiya pointed side cutter (older black matt look) and regular Tamiya side cutter (chrome). But there is also a new type sharp pointed, similar to pointed sids cutter but with more pointed tip. All the best!! Dusan.
Excellent work!
Can I ask how many days you spent on this? Or actual working hours?
Ray, I have many kits on workbench so I dont have the answer for You. All the best! Dusan.
Thank You!
Hello. Maybe you can help. Looking for 1/48 rah-66 Comanche helicopter.
Excellent build as always. Terrific work! Thats going on my shopping list 👍👍👍
Thank You very much! All the best! Dusan.
Awesome 👍
How about a video build in 1/48
Yes, there will be more videos in the future... All the best! Dusan.
Thank you Dusan!
absolutely B-E-A-UTIFUL!!! Great build sir.
Thank You Patrick! All the best! Dusan.
Great!
You make it look so easy! That was awesome. Well done.
Excellent! Very inspiring. Love the Phantom.
Thank You Russell! All the best! Dusan.
Man, I really love your modelling, great job!
Thank You! All the best! Dusan.
what a great model! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful work. it looks like an awesome kit. the 1/48 version is definitely on my list.
1/48th scale is excellent. Thanks! All the best! Dusan.
excellent work as always! loved it!
Thank You! All the best! Dusan.
Hi
What's the wingspan, length and height of this model when fully built?
Stunning mate top job as always
Thank You! All the best! Dusan.
I don't get it... how many references are there on the F-4. How many models have been produced on F-4/ How many aftermarket Ejections seats for the F-4 have been made. All that money you pay for this kit and they cannot get the correct shape of the ejection seat headrest? SMDH.
Check the new Tamiya kit, B-version. Might be better, about some AM parts, they look even worse. All the best! Dusan
my compliments...!!
Dusan you are the best! Bravo!!
Thank You! All the best! Dusan.
What is the first music title?
fuselage in one peice!!! need this kit haha
Looks amazing !