Lego F-4J Phantom

I reverse-engineered this from Ralph Savelsberg's Lego F-4. Why? Because I wanted one! Ralph has been quite clear that he doesn't sell or provide instructions to his models, but he DOES provide numerous detailed photographs from which one can see how it is put together. So just for the record, this is MY version of RALPH'S design. I did have to make some changes because I either didn't have the same parts he used, or didn't understand how he managed to do what he did. The exterior is the easy part, but the internals were a complete guess.

 

This is the second model of Ralph's that I managed to reverse-engineer, and it took me about 6 months to do it. Mine shows a hodge-podge of parts since that is what I had on hand, and I didn't go too far out of my way to create a specific version of Phantom, mine being what I consider "generic". I really wanted a Lego Phantom and here 'tis. Turns out there are lots of Lego Phantoms out there, but for my interest in Cold War aviation, Ralph's version was perfect.

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