This was a quick one: Revell’s nifty 1/144 F-14A Tomcat, done up as one of the colorfully-camouflaged birds from the USN’s Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center headquartered at NAS Fallon, c 1997. ‘NSAWC 10’ sported one of several versions of the ‘Flanker’ scheme designed to mimic Russian Sukhoi fighters.
Kit was built OOB except for lead-wire ejection curtain handles added to the tiny GRU-7s, and a stretched-sprue ACMI pod added to the stbd. missile station. Paints are Tamiya mixes, and decals came from the excellent old Fightertown #FTD14403 ‘Adversary Bad Cats’ sheet.
Not sure whether these sheets are still available – I seem to recall Fightertown reducing their catalog fairly substantially – but it’s got a nice cross-section of schemes. On the 1/144 sheet there’s another ‘Flanker’ version in browns and green (which I intend to do sometime), and a few plainer ones in grey over grey (which I’ll probably never get around to…I like a bit more drama, color-wise!)
