charley420 Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 Cheers buddy, I have been using pictures from airliners.net as reference it seems to have some missiles on the gloves but I don't know what they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 (edited) A picture of your aircraft with Harm missiles is here: http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-detail-agm88.htm And another picture is here (in the same configuration mentioned by Jabba) http://www.topedge.com/alley/images/f14d/f14dharm.htm As the web page says, unfortunately the project did not go ahead. Edited March 8, 2012 by Giorgio N Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charley420 Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 Thanks G, I noticed in those pics that the cat has a big nose probe and the black rear engine fairings, yet the one at the museum has neither, hmmm I dunno now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksdad Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Thanks G, I noticed in those pics that the cat has a big nose probe and the black rear engine fairings, yet the one at the museum has neither, hmmm I dunno now. I could be wrong but I'm sure the long probe was fitted when testing and would have been removed once the testing was complete. As for the rear engine fairings, I'm sure its just a case of them being painted white for display to look nicer. Looking really nice so far. Great choice of scheme as well. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charley420 Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 yeah i thought that too, so mine are staying white. A good shot of the arrestor hook tho, means i need to repaint mine now tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 (edited) Actually the aircraft at the museum has the exhaust fairings in metallic tones at the top and bottom and on the inside but have a large white fairings on the outer fuselage. At least they were so a couple of years ago.. However I'm not sure this aircraft has the F-110 nozzles at the moment, they loo quite different to me: Edited March 8, 2012 by Giorgio N Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Actually the aircraft at the museum has the exhaust fairings in metallic tones at the top and bottom and on the inside but have a large white fairings on the outer fuselage. At least they were so a couple of years ago.. However I'm not sure this aircraft has the F-110 nozzles at the moment, they loo quite different to me: Those look like TF-30 engines to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charley420 Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 heres the trumpy offerings and heres my reference photo's from airliners.net so im guessing the museum jet has the old engines and i have the new ones either that or trumpy really haddocked them up. i think ill stick with my white fairings and just leave the cans engine coloured Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Jabba is right I think: the museum aircraft looks to have been "retrofitted" with TF-30 exhausts, and I'm not sure all the fairings have been restored correctly. The trumpeter kit has the right exhausts for when the aircraft was flying, so you're right in using those. They look good from here, no big mistake from trumpeter on these ! I'm now curious to find out what happened to this aircraft engines: were the TF-30 retrofitted only for exhibtion purpose ? This is the most likely explanation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charley420 Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 As I thought old engines new fairings, that'll explain the mahoosive gap then lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charley420 Posted March 20, 2012 Author Share Posted March 20, 2012 Right then I got a bit fed up of this project and thus my attention has been diverted elsewhere, but whilst the milliput sets on my FW-190 i decided to get on and do some more. so i masked the leading edges then Painted them, now awaiting masking ready for the blue stripe also got the burner cans base coated in flat black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Know what you mean with getting fed up, these projects tend to take time and the risk of losing interest is always there. But you're very close to the end, just a little more and this will be completed ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngtiger1 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Just read the whole thread...man o man this one is going to stick out like a soar thumb from all your other models. Very nice work. As for the engines on the Super Cat, I think all of the engines from D models were stripped down and given to USAF for their F-16. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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