Well, she’s getting close. I’ve only got to attach three more of the small nose gear doors, and the pitots and other sensors on the side of the forward fuselage, as well as the nose pitot. Painted with Model Master Enamels, glossed with Future, decals are mostly CAM, a few kit ones, and dull coat is Polly S…WOW! that stuff is flat. The wheels are Cutting Edge resin.
This one was fun as far as the weathering goes. I weathered it about 6 or 7 times; couple of times after painting, BEFORE any Future went down, and the rest after the future. I weathered with a “sludge” wash, using Testors Acryl “aircraft interior black”, water, and some dish soap. The pre-future weathering was “sandwhiched” in between light, spotty mist-coats of the dark ghost grey and light ghost grey, I was shooting for a layered look for the weathering. I’ll probably “wash” it in a few spots again.
What you see below represents about 170 hours, I started the kit in May of last year. I’ll post finished pics in another week or two, once everything is on.
MA I got the photos and your F-14 is fantastic! Every aspect of the model looks perfect. I can tell you put some time into that Turkey! Oh yeah what kit is that?[tup]
Looks good. Nice understated weathering. Although the TPS can get really grungy on the real aircraft I think the weathering can be overdone in model scale; that makes it look messy. Yours is nice though.
Only other comment I can think of is the formation strip lights look too white. Shouldn’t they be more yellow?
Sorry about the X’s…I used to use Ron George’s site, but I can’t access that. Now I’m using Bravenet, and am not sure what the difficulty is.
This is Hasegawa’s 1/48 F-14D, the 280+ piece offering…for what you have to pay, it seems that LANTIRN pods and BOL missile rails would be included…not on this offering.
Thanks for the compliments. I know of a few “rough spots”, that’s why I didn’t show those angles. [:)]
The wings are just “stuck” into place, I can remove them, move them, etc. However, if I put them in the full forward position, the tips sag way too much, it doesn’t look right. I don’t want to glue them in forward position, so I just stick them on and position them swept.
It feels nice when such a big project comes to fruitation. That Tomcat looks really good. I personally like the look of shaded panel lines, and you did yours real well. You’re right, the Polly Scale is real flat. But the bird looks good!
MA, it looks real good. Nice job on the weathering. It looks like its been on cruise only a few weeks. I’d only like to add that you could still add the GPS dome & paint or Bare Metal Foil the leading edges of the wing. Also, you could still scribe in the panel lines on the left glove area. Much easier to do on this kit than the Monogram kit.
very well done.