Weasel-Off 3 - Upper Fuselage - 4K

[@TheModelGuy]

This is almost becoming a daily show

[@DoogsModels]

I'm quickly accumulating a backlog! If I were sticking to weekly you wouldn't be seeing this one until February. AND I've got three more WOs plus the next installments of both kits at least filmed and offloaded to the computer.

[@TheModelGuy]

@@DoogsModels I need to know what your secret is. I lucky to hit one video per month

[@patrickhagelstein1810]

I can’t stress enough how this is the pan ultimate review every Phantom modeler needs! Please keep this going the in dept way you are doing this! Thanks Matt!!!

[@cs7511]

I chose the Meng kit. The major selling point vs Z-M--the one piece fuselage. Cockpit details can be added with stock plastic card or extra photo etch. (Easier to add than to subtract!). The Z-M fuselage looks like a pain in the keester. Plus I like the fact that Meng gives you the paint masks, some photo-etch, not bad looking decals and metal pitot tube.. The only after market item I bought was the under wing bracing. Which in hindsight can't really be seen.

[@caudleryan123]

Outstanding! I love these mini episodes!

[@thomasfischer6597]

Thanx Mat for these short but very informative episodes. Have the Meng on order and was a little in doubt to have made the wrong choice after the cockpit comparison. But this episode showed me I was on the right track. I would have replaced the cockpit anyway with a soon to come after market item. The one piece fuselage with the stubs fitting into the wing recesses the way the heat shield fits into the rear section and the nose cone to the fuselage are just great engineering imho. No reason to waste more money for less quality here. Especialy after the fight I had with ZMs F-4E...

[@paulmanuse2353]

I'm going for Meng!!

[@danwilliams1686]

I have both kits and I agree fit is better for me than the loss of some details. I just hate filling and rescribing panel lines. On a different note check your kits parts count because my meng f-4 was missing the metal pilot tube. Luckily the plastic one is also included in the kit.

[@monkeyhobbies]

Great review!

[@Dutchie66]

Thanks for the extensive review for this part. So Meng Zokei Mura 1-0. Had to grin on 7:25...the compressor haha!

[@treyzmodels422]

Great update 👍

[@brandtall9639]

That top panel on the spline of the Tamiya kit is wide enough to get to the panel line on each side. Tamiya rules......

[@DoogsModels]

Yep. And they have the precision to actually make it a panel line.

[@fabiosilva3799]

Very good!

[@davidpalmer4184]

Great comparison Matt, always love your work. I have a Tamiya F4B in my stash. Anyone know how that rates in comparison to these models?

[@DoogsModels]

Compared to the Tamiya F-4, this is a battle for a distant second place. Unfortunately the odds of Tamiya ever getting to an F-4G are tiny, so here we are.

[@stewarts8597]

I'm leaning towards the MENG solely for the fit. There's plenty of aftermarket detail packages you can get to add more detail. I would go nuts if i put all the time into detail areas. put it all together only to discover the assembly fit was horrible.

[@DoogsModels]

That's kinda my thinking. What's fucked on the Meng is easier to unfuck, if you will.

[@stewarts8597]

@@DoogsModels lol indeed. I know I would be cursing like a truck driver stuck in a 4 hour traffic jam if i went through the same experience of Zoukei-Mura kit as you did

[@ThomisticAmerican13FOX]

That Zokei dorsal business is terrible, I'd almost write the whole thing off on that alone. PITA!

[@jameshall1300]

I think I'd rather deal with the one piece fuselage and the heat shield than the two piece. All that detail on the top is very hard to maintain or rescribe, and it's blatantly obvious when it's screwed up. Avoiding all that is worth it.

[@crackerbarrel6965]

In the year 2023 you’d think that by now misaligned or misfitting parts would be a thing of the past by now but noooooooo.

[@DoogsModels]

kits have been getting better and better, but unless it's Tamiya, I always go in expecting something to go wonky.