![]() Moving on to artist’s pastels, I added lighter and darker grays to blend This base was established I attacked the airframe using Tamiya’s weatheringīoth the brush and pad applicators, I dirtied up panels and high wear areas. Heavy handed with this, as this is one airframe you really can’t weather too Went back and highlighted panels and panel lines with lighter and darker shades Up much as I normally do as the pictures I used as references definitely show First up were coats of Light Ghost Gray on the underside and Dark Ghost I thought it would be fun to try to replicate “the look”. Very dirty, very scruffy, and with loads of “character”. It shows to good effect how hard the late Tomcats were used and abused. Pod and vertical stabilizers came next, and after these were attached it wasīook I bought: “Tomcat: Bye Bye Baby!” It is an awesome pictorial history and a great read. I assembled the exhausts next and at 7 pieces each they are fairly well On the putty and gave the sanding sticks a workout. The radome cover kinda sorta seemed like it was for this kit, but only That doesn’t fit well, unfortunately, is that big nose. I didn’t do so well, and quality time was spent here smoothing things Careful assembly here will minimize the putty and sanding, along with the Of the fuselage pieces is tricky in the area of the intakes. At this point the wings and fuselage top and bottom are joined to make an Since nothing hangs off of these, no holes to open or pylons to add. The wings are as easy as it gets….a top and bottom for each side and, The intakes cover over these and that completes the fuselage bottom. In detailing an area that was never going to be seen (nobody with a penlight is These, and the intake area, were painted flat black as I saw little point Have good references….it’s a better thing to actually check them.Īre two compressor faces….another nice touch but a moot point here. To make some out of wire when I looked thru my references and realized these They looked very nice but I was mystified that they did not include the “hey, look…there’s something down here.” Next I painted, highlighted, and added a set of resin seats. Station from the Starship Enterprise….yes, a bit flamboyant and overdoneĬompared to the real (and quite dull) thing but it gets ones attention and says Painted various knobs and switches on the cockpit tub with dots of red, yellowĪnd white on the end of a toothpick and soon I had an office that looked like a Had to do a bit of cutting on the cockpit tub to get everything to fit, but it I figured this way if fitting the Eduard set turned out poorly, I couldĪlways fall back on the kits’ “D” instrument panels and proceed normally. Took the “A” versions parts and smoothed them out. The kit contains instrument panel for both the “A” and “D” versions, so I Grind down and smooth out the kits parts. A slight problem was the set was for the Hasegawa kit, so it wasn’t going It includes weapons stencils which I think is a nice touch.ĭeviated in the form of an Eduard F-14D color PE detail set. The decal sheet is big and looks impressive. VF-2 Bounty Hunters from 2003 and the Black Lions of VF-213 circa 2001. Instructions consist of a nice 8 ½ x 11 booklet with good illustrationsĪnd generic, but quite complete color callouts. Stores that allows for a dizzying number of configurations.……maybe Hasegawa But that’s not all, for in addition to the standard weapons load-out of the original kitĦ Sparrow, 2 Sidewinder) you also get dumb bombs, laser guided bombs, and JDAM TCS pod, different ejection seats, different instrument panels, weighted tires,Įxternal fuel tanks, a TARPS pod, a LANTRIN pod, newer Sidewinder launch rails,Īnd an AN/ALQ-167 ECM “ Bullwinkle” pod. It has the above mentioned sprue but also contains another version of the Everything else is the same as the “A” version of yore. Newer gun vent panels and a different under-chin TCS pod. #4729) which has a new sprue containing the different exhausts for the “D”, There are two versions done here….the first Fit of the parts is okay most fit well, but a few barely fit. Monograms knack of getting the character of the subject just right. You get a sea of plastic (it’s a big bird) with raised panels lines and Monogram’s venerable F-14A from the early Eighties (I believe 1981).
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