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Hi mates, Well, I'm finally getting started on this - I hope I have enough time to finish! After spending a lot of time fixing the inaccuracies in my last build, I've decided that this one will be pretty much OOB. So this is the very nice Hasegawa F-14D kit in 1:72 scale. It has some nice features, including photoetch cockpit and canopy details. My plan is to build this as the plane from VF-31 that flew the "last flight." Which is not, by the way, the aircraft depicted in this kit, even though that's what it says on the box. That one was supposed to do the ceremonial last flight, but a maintenance failure required a different plane to be used. The actual "last flight" aircraft is depicted in the Revell 1:72 F-14D kit, from which I will borrow the decal sheet. In any event, this should be fun, as VF-31 is definitely my favorite Tomcat squadron. Felix Rules!! I have the Aires resin cockpit for this kit, but I'm not sure I'll use it. The Hasegawa kit pit is pretty good, and I may save the resin set and see if it will fit in the Revell kit (whose pit needs some help). This F-14 will also be part of a larger "side project" that I've been working on over the last few decades, and that is to build a representative model of every USN Squadron aircraft type that was adorned by Felix the Cat. This goes way back to biplane days... Cheers, Bill -
Hi Mates, This F-14D Tomcat model was built for the F-14 Group Build which is just wrapping up. My build thread is here. This build had a number of firsts for me. The biggest was my first use of dissolved salt to make an irregular mask so that I could duplicate the heavy weathering that the Tomcats got at sea once they switched to the TPS. This was different than using salt to make paint chips, please have a look at the build thread for details. I also did a lot of post shading with pastels, and I added the crew figures for the first time in my modelling career! Imagine that - over forty years and this is the first crew. What's next, a Bf-109? I've successfully avoided building one of those this whole time too! I used an Aires resin cockpit and ejection seats, and crew figures from PJ Productions. Transfers came from the 1:72 Revell F-14D kit. I posed the aircraft as was typically seen after the completion of an air show flight demo, where the plane "bows to the crowd" by compressing the front gear, and the RIO waves an American flag. I hope you enjoy the photos! Cheers, Bill