srkirad Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 After over a year, I have finally finished "3 Kittens" i.e. 3 Tomcats in braillescale I had few bad moments unfortunately, some of them are visible, some are not until you see them in real. - white undercolor on both F-14As have gone to blueish hue, due to failed brush which I was using for thinning color - brush has blue handle, and that blue probably resolved under thinner and mixed with white... it was very painful trying process, end in the end it turned out a bit blueish - in vivo is not so visible, but on this white background for sure is - while glueing wheelbay doors, I didn't notice that Tamiya Extrathin glue went to the trailing edge of fixed part of wing, and glued movable part of wing in position you see on photos - I've tried my best to unglue wings, but with no success, so they stayed like this - fortunately in same position on all three kits - middle wing position on F-14 Everything else is more less out of the box... Painted with Gunze acrylics, wash is made from artistic oils... Well, enough talking, here are the photos... F-14A, VF-84 Jolly Rogers ("Final Countdown" movie) F-14A, VF-142 Ghostriders F-14D, VF-101 Grim Reapers Family portrait Cheers, S. 34 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abandoned Project Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 39 minutes ago, srkirad said: braillescale Haha. 1/144 not so braille for a 747. Lovely trio BTW. The flaws are not too bad, while the paint problem is noticeable (especially having been told about it before seeing the Tomcats), I would have no clue about the wings if you had not mentioned them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 I'd be happy with those in 1/72! Hard to believe they are 1/144. 👍 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire 123 Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Great job, love the weathering! 👍👍 Riley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonelKrypton Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Fabulous, even more so in 1/144. Makes me want to build one of own. cheers, Graham 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapam Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 I mistook them for 1/72 until I went back and read the fine print! That speaks for the excellent job you have done on these! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAT69 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 They all look great to me. I do like the VF-142 bird. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 OMG !! LOVE TOMCATS ... MY absolute Favorite fighter jet. Your trio are PHENOMENAL. ASTOUNDING workmanship on such small scale. You have done an OUTSTANDING job. KUDOS. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Really nice trio of Tomcats, great job(s) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swralph Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 All look great.😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phildagreek Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Looks good from over here! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Outstanding 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brigbeale Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Stunning builds especially in 1/144 scale. I too was thinking they’re at least 1/72. Must get round to mine sometime....... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberto Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Lovely works, great colletion! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upnorth Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Beautiful work on all of them. I'm most partial to VF-142 Tomcat, but that's just because I think the Tomcat always looked better in high visibility markings. No need to be lo-vis when you could knock the enemy down from as far off as the Tomcat could. 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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