If you’ve built one, answer me this; did your main landing gear not attach properly or have some sort of funny angle?
1/48 tomcats, sorry.
I think that the back landing gear does that natually? Although I am not a Tomcat expert the way someone like Darren Rabb is but I think that is the way they should be. They should angle out slightly from the side of the aircraft? Check with some refrence photos. Just don’t make the same mistake I made on two fo mine. I reversed the walls on the front landing gear walls.
They didn’t want to be perpendicular to the ground as viewed from the side. I believe that maybe the holes for the actuator struts were drilled in the wrong location.
I think they should be slightly angled outward. Again though I am not sure.
Out04, that is a very common problem with this kit, of which I have yet to solve. They have a pronounced outward angle to them that should not be there. The head -on stance of the MLG struts is 90 deg to the ground. That big drag brace is angled in, & it gives the apperance of the struts themselves being angled in.
Looking at them from the side, they look to be slightly angled back, but that could also be an illusion caused by the shape of the bottom of the intake trunk, as it isn’t parallel to the ground .
Take a look over at the F-14 walkaround section on www.aircraftresourcecenter.com. There area PLENTY of good pics that may be able to shed some light on this topic.
Chris Ishmael