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Late Start - Academy 1:72 OOB


Beggsy

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Well, I wasn't planning to be here (much as I love the F-14).  I went online a couple of weeks ago to buy an F-14 in preparation/hope for the What If group build next year (if it passes the bunfight).  However, in a little bit of fat-fingered clumsiness I put two in the shopping cart.  There was enough other stuff in the order that the price looked about right and I didn't notice until they turned up together in the box!

 

So now, I've got a spare one of these and there's a group build on so I may as well try and throw it together!

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This will be entirely OOB except for maybe a masking set.  No fancy resin or scratch building this time!

 

So without further ado, I got the first parts off the sprue:

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One evening and a lunchtime decal session later (the joys of working from home), we have this:

 

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So far, I've been impressed by the detail in the kit, but a bit suprised by the number of raised ejector pin marks I've had to remove from mating surfaces.  Nothing to challenging thankfully.

 

Now on with assembling the main body!

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