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1/48 F-14A Tomcat VF-111 "Miss Molly" (Tamiya)


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Hi Folks,

 

Here is my recently finished Tamiya Tomcat depicting "Miss Molly", a Tomcat of the VF-111 Sundowners as it was painted in 1989.

It is the 1/48 Tamiya kit with decals from Furball Aero Sesign (Sundowners Anthology)

I used some aftermarket to bring the cat to block 125 standard:

 

Steel Beach vinyl tail stiffeners

Steel Beach RWR antennas

Quickboost TCS chinpod

Eduard Brassin late wheels

Eduard Brassin ejection seats

Eduard Brassin AIM-7E + AIM-9L

 

I had to do the painting and decals twice. because of a bad reaction in the final clear coat, I decided to strip the paint completely and restart from the bare plastic.

Waethering is minimal, since at least most of the aircraft was freshly painted, at least on the few pictures available of this jet.

I gave the jet a subtle pre shading and a panel line wash with Tamiya panel line enhancer in grey, and a few oil streaks in front of the engines.

 

There ar no in-progress pictures, because it was a quite straightforward build.

 

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Cheers,

markus

 

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52 minutes ago, Delayar said:

Hi Kev,

 

Thank you!

 

The one open / one closed nozzles can be seen on many parked A Tomcats. This is because of the engine shutdown sequence.

The details can be found here under "F-14 engine nozzle "parking" position": http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-detail-engine.htm

 

Cheers,

Markus

I thought there must be a reason, thanks Markus :yes: 

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Hello Markus,

Excellent end-product. especially, reading that you had to strip the paint and had to decal again.

My compliments on your attitude of persistence. (I would have binned it!)

Regards, Orion. 

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On 4/24/2018 at 8:25 AM, Delayar said:

 

 

The Tamiya Tomcat is an absolut joy to build, no comparison to the Hasegawa kit 😉

 

I think of the Hasegawa kit more as a "Carefully Orchestrated Disappointment", or "Polystyrene Trainwreck" Myself.

 

-d-

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Thank you!

 

As for persistence: It was already too expensive for binning it 😉

I first thought of sanding the final coat, but soon realised that I would loose surface detail and probably also some decals, so I went ahead, ordered a new set of decals (thankfully the decals were reprinted) and stripped the paint.

 

Cheers,

Markus

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