02-18-2026, 06:44 AM
(02-18-2026, 12:04 AM)Mensaboy Wrote:(01-15-2026, 08:00 AM)MrRobot Wrote: 1/32 Phantom kits come with one of two types of "turkey feathers" (the ring of exhaust cone petals): short or long. Some X-wings used the long variant, but I'm doing Red 2 and therefore need the short variant.
Here's what the long ones look like:
Here's the short ones:
i may be losing my mind here, but i thought that was just the same part cut shorter
It's possible that they sometimes just cut down longer ones to get a match. However, there were definitely two different variants of Revell's tool and some kits have long and some have short. Curiously, I have only seen the short cones in the F-4J. I did some quick-and-dirty numbers from Worthpoint records and it's about 50% of F-4J kits (in any boxing). I've never seen them in an F-4E. So, short and long variants are out there and were certainly available to the ILMers in 1976.

