I also added landing lights. Originally I was going to do molded-in lights at the wing leading edge, but the F-4 has a single landing light mounted on the nose gear door. I'm running out of time until BITW, and I guessed it would be faster to make a nose door than molded-in lights, so I went with the nose door mounted light.
The door was cut from a piece of an old wreck I had laying around so it was just a matter of cutting the piece to size and installing a hinge. The LED light is mounted in a white plastic holder available from Electrodynamics and comes with a bezel to focus the light forward. The holder is glued into a hole in the door with Zap-A-Gap-A-Goo, and the wire routed in Tidi-strips to prevent it from snagging anything. A 1/2" radius plywood semi-circle is glued to the back of the door (on the centerline) to slide along the strut as the gear extends.
Regards,
Jim
