Tomcat's 10th Retirement Anniversary Celebration... of some sort.

[Tyas]

So I had this Hasegawa F-14B VF-11 Red Rippers kit since June, and up until 3 weeks ago the only thing I made was just the front and top fuselage and nose gear, while waiting for paint to come. Then I just remembered that this week marks the 10th anniversary of F-14 Tomcat's retirement, so I decided to kick everything up and started working again so I can have a photoshoot before the end of September. TBH decals are good in terms of solidity but hard to put down. Need dabs (Dabs? You sure that's not a douse?) of acetic acid since Mark Softener is hard to come by in my hometown. Paint is Tamiya's acrylic, and this is the first time I tried salt weathering, though not extensively since I'm still a newbie in this salt weathering business. Gotta say I'd give it a try again in the future.

As for the kits? Flash in many places, ejector pins in difficult places, frustrating fitting problems in many places, 12(!) exhaust petals to fit one-by-one, and fiddly cockpit to fit. I had a thought of retiring from making Hasegawa's F-14...
... But only for a second or two. To be honest I'm looking forward to snatch some more from my seller. Oh, and my Rippers 100 CAG is accompanied by F-14D Lions 213 Skipper Bird I made 2 years ago

P.S.: I lost the USS JOHN F KENNEDY decals on the wing glove. My room's carpet is an absolute hell hole for modelers.

 

Sorry for the wheels, my cackhandedness seemed to ruin it

 

 

 

And here it is with VF-213 skipper, still my favourite scheme for F-14 of all time. Along with VF-2 farewell scheme and VF-14 Tophatters 80th Anniversary scheme (of which I can't find the kit anywhere D: )

 

Feel free to criticise and comment, every helpful critics are very much welcomed ^^

[F-32]

You can never have too many Tomcat's!

 

Good work, thanks for sharing.

[celt]

The last of the big cats,nicely done,much prefer the F-14 to the F-18.

[Tyas]

19 hours ago, F-32 said:

You can never have too many Tomcat's!

 

Good work, thanks for sharing.

Yep. There is no such thing as too much Tomcats. If anything I already asked my friend who is currently in Japan if he can find me a Fujimi Tomcat kits, since it's almost impossible to find one here in Indonesia.

I'm prepared to receive 2 hours of complain from my brother who thinks I have too many F-14s