I absolutely love this kit more and more. This was my test bed for the Steel Beach beaver tail set. Decals are a mix of Superscale and Furball. Paint is MM Acryl for the Gull Gray and Alclad for the white and metal areas. I realized I haven’t painted the oleo strut and put on the catapult arm retraction struts yet.
A fantastic build. Absolutely beautiful!
Toshi
Gorgeous!! I do love me a VF-14 bird, right behind maybe a VF-31 
any tricky bits we should look out for in the build? I know its a Tamiya so probably not very many. I can’t wait to get to mine!
Outstanding Tomcat, Darren! I take it that the kit is worth the price ?
Nice looking clean build [B]. I have that here lined up as a comission and was looking it over. Way nicer and easier to build than the Hasegawa according to the reviews.
[:P]. Looking good…is this their new offering?
Very nice! My favorite bird. 
Mike
King of the F-14 !! Another stunner. Great work!!
BK
MEOW! Love the Tomcat, and really nice work on this one. Thanks for sharing.
John
Looks to be a good model and you did a superb job on it! Good work for sure!
Max
Great looking build,I’m drooling to start mine,got some AM decals for the Grim Reapers.Again,a nice clean build.
That CAT looks really good. If I didn’t have so many in the stash I’d be tempted to buy it after seeing how well you made it look.
Absolutely, it is worth the price. I’m 75% finished with mine and have had ZERO problems. Superbly engineered and masterfully molded. Everything fits together perfectly. It will take a lot of time and patience, but that’s the fun of it, isn’t it?
Without a doubt, this is the nicest kit I have ever had the pleasure of building!
Super nice job! It looks great!
Awesome! Even I want to try this one.
Thanks all. As Cadet Chuck said, it’s worth every penny. If you only want to build one (or two) Tomcats, this is the one to have. If you have others in your stash, sell them off to raise money to buy a Tamiya Tomcat. It’s that good!
Nice job on that Cat. I bought this kit and am just trying to decide if I want to do a dirty one or a clean one. I picked up decals for the Swordsmen’s shoot-down of the two Libyan MiGs and need to look at more references. I really like the way yours came out.
-BD-
IIRC for that low vis swordsman (great looking scheme) during that engagement was a bit later model F-14A than the Tamiya, most likely with the chin pod/tail stiffeners/different gun vent. You might already know this so apologies if redundant, but check out Detail and Scales Atlantic Tomcat Fleet paint scheme book. You can get the kindle version on Amazon and it is worth EVERY penny of the $9.99. You can not go wrong. They do go into detail about the scheme on the two swordsman F-14s. Sorry for the thread hijack! 