DaveJL

Good result mate, thanks for taking part!

I like your experimenting with the metal mate, I think this will come out great

Excellent! I'l hopefully get my build over the line now!

Thanks chaps! A few days off work has been fairly productive, despite me hitting the stout with a touch of vigour on Friday 🤫. Anyway, once my head had cleared yesterday, the first job was to paint the seats. As is now the norm for any GRU-7 or MB MK.5/7 seats I build, I add the pre-painted Brassin upper ejection handles. They're so much better than I could ever paint and to my eye look better than Quinta's offering. That being said, Quinta's 'between the legs' handle is very nice indeed. I set those to one side and worked on the exhausts next. Various metallics, a wash and some weathering to finish. One open, one closed. This was a common sight on the P&W TF-30 equipped F-14A - as hydraulic pressure bled off as the engine shut down, the nozzle of the first engine shut down would open fully, while the last to be shut down would close fully. There was no hard and fast rule, as far as I'm aware, as to which engine was shut down first but from my primary references (the Daco book), it appears that the starboard engine was shut down first. Now then, the missiles. This is my 13th Tamiya F-14 and only the second that I've loaded with four AIM-54s 🙃. I sprayed the radome in light grey to replicate the ceramic material that gradually got darker as dirt and what not accumulated. Lots of decals too, but they look pretty good now that they're done! AIM-9s and AIM-7s were a simpler affair: All told, the missiles took the guts of 5 hours to decal and finish. A few small jobs to do tomorrow and we should then be ready for primer. More soon. Dave

Cheers Craig and so do I

Slow progress, but some all the same! Undercarriage completed and both coamings done. Note the Quinta canopy jettison handles on the coamings along with some weathering from Tamiya sets and chipping on the RIO's grab handle courtesy of an AK pencil. Not much but work has been fairly busy. I've a 4 day weekend ahead and the weather looks like it's to take a turn here so I'll hopefully get a good whack done . Dave

Finally made a start on this one but safe to say there's not a snowballs chance that I'll get it finished before the deadline as I want to focus on my F-14.Handily though, I'll be able to roll this into the Post WWII twins GB that starts in August! Ordnance assembled. From left to right; AIM-9M, Litening pod, GBU-12, GBU-54, GBU-31, GBU-54, GBU-38, AGM-65, LAU-131, GBU-12. The GBU-31 is from a Tamiya F-14 and the GBU-38 is from the spares (not sure of its originator ). The detail on the kit weapons is very good indeed, I think it's the only time I've seen the rocket motor on the the AGM-65 replicated: That's about it, poor show really, so I bought a new ejection seat: As I say, I'll get stuck into this in earnest for the Twins GB. I think it should meet the less than 25% complete rule Dave

Nearly there mate, nice work!

Great result Enzo!

Great result Rob, that looks very nice indeed . Thanks for taking part!

That's coming along very nicely indeed Andrés

Another good result Mario, nicely done!

That's looking really rather nice!

Looks good with the sharkmouth!

Looking good Thomas! Just to let you know, there’s a two week extension to the GB, now running until the 20th July