Good video, nice comparison. I would like to add just one minor observation and it is with regard to assembly process. I love both kits, but Meng - just a bit more than Academy. Just because of the fact that according to the Academy's assembly manual one has to install main landing gear almost at the very beginning of the assembly process! Even before priming the aircraft. That really kills me because when you reach the middle of the road (assembly) half of the landing gear would break off... Academy F-4N kit has plastic parts of three different colors for unknown to me reason.) While assembling I had a strong feeling that different colors glued in different way, I had to use different glues. Meng does not have problems like that, building it was a very pleasant adventure.) Thanks for video!
Thanks for your comments! Glad you liked my video, there are many more comparisons in my page.. Follow up video about how Phantoms went together etc. can also be found from: ua-cam.com/video/su_0OVrtACI/v-deo.html In my F-4C there also were multicoloured parts, but I didn't find it different to glue from grey to white to black. I don't like that you have to put the landing gear on early either. I built my Academy in that way that the landing gear was put on at the end. It only needed some sanding, you can watch it in my build video.
@2:10 & @2:38 you are pointing to the wrong spot. Those are not Flaperons. Those are just plan flaps nearest to the body. The F-4E NEVER had flaperons it had a unique aileron/spoiler system. Meng has both seperate flaps and ailerons while Academy has fixed Flaps and Seperate Ailerons. The reason both kits have seperate ailerons is because on the real aircraft they droop when the airplane is at rest from lack of hydraulic pressure, and its easy to display the model at rest if the ailerons are seperate so they can be modeled in drooped position. On all Navy and F-4C/D the ailerons could droop in flight on landing and in that case they acted like flaperons but were not actually flaperons as such. In the flight manual its called "Aileron droop" But the F-4E (one of the subjects of this video) never had inflight drooping ailerons.
Good video. Bought a Meng Phantom F 4 E today. I look forward to see how it is. The music in the video takes me. Thank you.
Thanks! Good luck with your build!
Good video, nice comparison.
I would like to add just one minor observation and it is with regard to assembly process.
I love both kits, but Meng - just a bit more than Academy. Just because of the fact that according to the Academy's assembly manual one has to install main landing gear almost at the very beginning of the assembly process! Even before priming the aircraft. That really kills me because when you reach the middle of the road (assembly) half of the landing gear would break off... Academy F-4N kit has plastic parts of three different colors for unknown to me reason.) While assembling I had a strong feeling that different colors glued in different way, I had to use different glues. Meng does not have problems like that, building it was a very pleasant adventure.)
Thanks for video!
Thanks for your comments! Glad you liked my video, there are many more comparisons in my page.. Follow up video about how Phantoms went together etc. can also be found from: ua-cam.com/video/su_0OVrtACI/v-deo.html
In my F-4C there also were multicoloured parts, but I didn't find it different to glue from grey to white to black. I don't like that you have to put the landing gear on early either. I built my Academy in that way that the landing gear was put on at the end. It only needed some sanding, you can watch it in my build video.
Great video thanks!
@2:10 & @2:38 you are pointing to the wrong spot. Those are not Flaperons. Those are just plan flaps nearest to the body. The F-4E NEVER had flaperons it had a unique aileron/spoiler system. Meng has both seperate flaps and ailerons while Academy has fixed Flaps and Seperate Ailerons. The reason both kits have seperate ailerons is because on the real aircraft they droop when the airplane is at rest from lack of hydraulic pressure, and its easy to display the model at rest if the ailerons are seperate so they can be modeled in drooped position. On all Navy and F-4C/D the ailerons could droop in flight on landing and in that case they acted like flaperons but were not actually flaperons as such. In the flight manual its called "Aileron droop" But the F-4E (one of the subjects of this video) never had inflight drooping ailerons.
Thanks for comprehensive correction!
@@TV-ez4md None-the-less.. this is an excellent video you made, otherwise. Good comparison.
@@ILSRWY4 Thanks! Feedback is very wellcome, you can also make some suggestions. Now I just try to make a comoarison I would like to see.