I Build F-4 Phantom Micro RC Plane with Foam

After a good feedback on Micro F-14 Tomcat I decided to try it on F-4 Phantom as well. At first I build a 360mm wingspan for 3 channel micro RC parts, but turned out too heavy because I need to add alot of counter weight ballast on the nose. So I made another one that smaller which is 290mm wingspan and use 2 channel RC micro parts for the bigger one. I use low density styrofoam (EPS) foam for the main material and you also need hard foam for the nose part, so it will not easily damage when it hit the ground nose first, or you can use balsa wood or even 3D printed nose part like I did. As usual I use a clear canopy made out of heat shrink plastic for packaging, but this time I use simpler molding technique by using Depron foam or hard foam as the mold and abandoned the mold that made out from 3D printed and wood.

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Specs :
1. Wingspan 290mm & 360mm
2. Flying weight : 61 grams & 68 gram

Electronics :
1. WLToys XK A290-F16 toy RC plane (3 channel)
- 1X Coreless motor
- Controller + RX board
- 3 Channels TX

2. Toy RC plane (2 channel)
- 2X Coreless motor
- Controller + RX board
- 2 Channels TX

Materials :
1. 50mm Low/ Medium Density Styrofoam / Thermocol foam
2. Toothpick, Bamboo kebab stick
3. hot glue, UHU glue, CA glue
4. Packing tapes
5. Spray paint + Plastic Primer

[Avionics]

One of the Best 12 minutes i spent time on Youtube

[LWJCarroll]

02:36 now in my late sixties and have never once thought of sanding this foam in water to stop all the mess…! Lol Thanks. Laurie. NZ. 😅

[AqUiLeSbAeZaReAtA]

I love the way you approach every project. Such a genius!

[jwc]

Love it, will give it a try, the part i loved was the screw on the work bench, at 3:30 am i tried to fly a dragon id helped my son build, it was tail heavy, found a screw on the work bench put it in the dragons mouth, perfection ....6pm till 3:30am after a full days work, things one does for kids.

[fyzobaba]

GREAT TO SEE OTHER BUILDERS!! GOOD JOB

[joewoodchuck]

Wet sanding keeps the mess down too. Great job. I opened the video to skim through it and watched in detail when I saw how good it really is.

[gabrielruiz]

I`ve just stumbled upon your video and realized I've read your name somewhere before. Paper replika was a part of my childhood and just unlocked a core memory. Great model and keep going on!

[GuruGoesUTube]

Very cool! I really like the look of the Phantom and your model looks awesome too!

[coast]

One of my favorite Vietnam era warplanes. Love to see one in SEA camo.

[mov]

As always the best! Hoping you build more micros

[BuzzMoves]

Super relaxing. Also, genius with the water sanding

[brianbeahm]

Brilliant and inspirational! Didn't know you could do that with that type of foam.

[frwy]

Thanks a lot Julius !!
Another one on my TO BUILD list 😀

[mtacoustic]

Ingenious construction! Suggest hollowing out the fuselage before gluing on the side intakes; or, use a 'U' shaped hot wire cutter to form an internal channel for the radio gear.

[trailblazer]

I'd like to see you buikd an f18 hornet. You do an amazing job man!

[cranklabexplosion-labcentr]

It’s like you’re able to build one of those 1/48 shelf models, but it flies more than once.

[RobisonRacing]

Julius is a master at creating foam planes. No one is better.

[AG]

Julius bro you are amazing. I pray your channel keeps growing and you make more videos for us. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[RC_Overview]

I would absolutely love to see a SR-71 eith the fms twin 70mm. I am fetting them for my birthday and i think it would look sick. Thank you. I love your videos.

[Clayton-lmfv]

Hi Julius, love your work, do you think you can make and design the B1 lancer, thanks