Knight_Flyer

No - but then again, there's one ebayer putting an Airfix Scout on auction starting £24 and another demanding £30 for buy it now

Gotta admit - I am surprised by some of the comments. When Fine Molds released their F-14 onto the scene, I got the impression everyone was saying it was "THE DEFINITIVE" F-14 kit knocking the ancient Hasegawa and Fujimi toolings into oblivion. In fact, some were complaining at the time - the FM F-14 was only available as a Japanese part works magazine series depriving the rest of the world of such a fine model kit (some pun intended) Anyways, good to know I don't have to throw my Hasegawa and Fujimi Tomcats into the trash

Excellent build, great result on the weathering and paint finish 😎

Looks great, excellent work on the painting and weathering 😎

Very nice build, good job painting the mottling.

Good job painting the camo, it's turned out really well 😎

Very neat build, a bit unusual to see nose art on both sides. I think I would be tempted to replace the chunky doors with custom plastic card ones.

Looks good, nice weathering 🐧

Not really seeing much in the way of flash. As for the inaccurate canopy, funny enough - I think it looks better than the real one. Real canopy looks too small and been squashed 😄 As you painted it red - just pretend it's an early prototype, the build of the model looks fine as it is.

A neat looking build. Nicely done with the paint brush.

Looks good. Reminds me of the Airfix kit I built from the same squadron. Except I got the green wrong or at least I didn't have money to buy more paint. The green I had available at that time was a bright shade almost lime - I just pretended it been out in the sun too long 🐪

I agree with the others. You got the basic camo scheme painted nicely. Just needs a bit of weathering. Looking at the photo of the real aircraft - I think Tamiya weathering powder be enough to simulate that kind of effect. It doesn't have to be exact, just similar to look realistic.

Very nice build and weathering. I think with the silvering you maybe able to carefully scrape the film away with a sharp scalpel. Another option is to paint over it and then weather the "patch" to blend it in with the rest of the camo... or indeed weather over the silvering to make it less obvious. Just a few suggestions if you want to consider for future occurrences.

A neat build, nice painting of the camo scheme. You can probably have added more staining on the belly of the Spitfire. Apparently Spits were notorious for leaking a lot of oil in that area 😄

Looks good, nicely painted camo scheme.