colargol
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Thanks 😉 I carry on by gluing the nose and the fuselage. It requires some grey painting to have an homogenous color (pink arrow). I have also glued the engine parts, filled it with putty (Perfect Putty), sand it then painted it (clear blue arrow). I have also ligthened the radome color (using a mix of H11, H313 and H34 by Gunze - yellow arrow). I've discovered that their is a formation band represented on the left part of the aircraft (red arrow) whereas there are no formation band on the right side. And I prefer to have none for the steps to come. Another bad
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Hello, I began the painting process with sublayers of Tamiya grey XF-54. It turned out that the red color on the wings migrated through the grey on the wings ... so for the wings, I made a sublayer of tire black (gunze H77), then a new sublayer of Tamiya grey. After that, it's a long process of white painting, with layers of gloss white from Gunze (H1) diluted in Tamiya X-20A or in 95° alcool, and flat white (H11) with 90° alcool ... it's long and I don't really like painting in white ... I try to make as many layer on each part, not to have "too white" parts and varia
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Hello I was quite ready to start painting when I decided to prepare the arresting hook. GWH proposes one but I don't think it is for a Tomcat because it is not at the correct position (red arrow). it is not difficult to correct to have a Tomcat one, but can we expect such an error on such an expensive kit ? (green arrow). I've also taken the fuel dump tube from the beaver I am not using (it didn't live long during the sanding process). Then I started the painting process, using ASK production masks for windshield and canopy (very ea
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Hello, little update for the nose of the aircraft. On the first prototypes, there is a huge nose probe. I first thought to use the nose probe pieces from the Hasegawa F-14B prototype kit, but they are too short. So I am using a string of steel of 0.5 mm diameter, with a part of seringe needle of correct diameter (not glued on the picture. The length of the nose probe is not even correct. It should be around 37 to 38 mm). I used the nose probe piece from the GWH kit as a basis. There is a tricky part ... GWH proposes the 2 kinds of nose extremity : the simple cone (for t
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Hello I carry on. For the windshield blue color, I've decided to follow this tutorial : link First, I tried on my spare canopy from the B-2A, using several colors, not only blue, but also a larger palette, to make provessive variation (for future canopies) It's working ! So I go to the GWH Tomcat windshield ... first step : I put colors (a mix of blue, dark blue and dark green) on the interior oval of the windshield. Then I Q-Type it. It requires several repetition to have the required color. and
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Hello, I carry on : I used painted photoetched part from Eduard (for the Hasegawa kit) for the ejection seat handles. As it is an old Eduard kit, both sides are painted 😉 (yellow arrows). I also used Aizu masking tape to represent the belts (green arrows) I am going now on the air intake. I didn't follow the GWH notice process as I explained earlier These are the air intake in place, with the internal structure of the landing gear bays (black arrows - GWH and Academy are the only manufacturer to
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Hello, I have begun the painting process. I started with a layer of Dark Sea Grey XF-54 Tamiya, diluted with 95° alcohol (yellow arrows). Specific areas have been painted in white (a first layer of Tamyia XF-2/95° alcool, then a layer of Gunze H-1/ X-20A). The inside wall of the cockpit were represented using only paint (it will be invisible in the end). For te cockpit consoles, I have tried to choose the one looking the best for a F-14A (considering the fact that I am using an F-14B kit, with F-14D pieces included in the kit).
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Checking the references (the Mike Crutch book), it could be : - 159630, NK-103 - 159632, NK-105 - 159635, NK-112 - 159636, NK-106 These 4 birds seems to come from VF-211 in late 1976 and I would not be suprised if it occured during the AIM/ACEVAL exercice (where the Ferris scheme was used on VF-1 and VF-2 NK-x00) aircraft before these four would have a 7 vents gun, and aircraft after there in the VF-1 would be in line after the disappearance of white/grey scheme. On some pictures on the cruise book of USS Entreprise in 1976-1977, some rad
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Hello, look at 103 and 106 below, they have the 2 vents. the beaver tail is the intermediate one (without ECM bubles, no ECM bubles near the air intakes neither). Not sure about the tan radome ... it could be fully white on these birds. colargol
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Done 😉 I have used Hasegawa pieces to do so. In the mean time, I also modified the vertical tails. I filled the hexagonal plates (clear blue arrows) and the formation light bands (pink arrows) with cyanoacrylate glue, then sanded it. GWH decided to add a formation light band on the inner side of the left vertical tail. I don't have the explanation. Maybe for the joke. I also added the small antennas on the top of the tails (dark red arrows), using Evergreen 1.5 mm x 0.25 mm pieces. Initially, I intended to represent the
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Thanks a lot for your remark !!!! I will correct the front cockpit (either using another kit screen or by using the decals ... afterall, the cockpit will be closed) colargol
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Hello, I'm going to the small air intake at the root of the left vertical tail. This small air intake was only on the first prototype. From the second prototype to the first serial aircrafts, there was no air intake at the root of the left vertical tail. Then the air intake came bake as a small one. before working on the main air intake, I had to modify the top of the aircraft, first with the suppression of the GPS antenna (no GPS in 1970). I used the piece with the GPS buble from the F-14B kit, sand it, filled it with cyano glue, then sand it
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Hello, I follow with the dorsal fences, that are different between the prototypes and the production aircrafts. At first, I thought that I could keep the internal ones, by just modifying their top shape. But it turns out that the aft part of the internal fence of the prototypes stop before the end of the dorsal plates. It is not the case on the production aircraft where they go over the edge or the dorsal plates (green arrows). So I removed all the dorsal fence and rebuild them with 0.75 mm evergreen pieces (2 and 4 mm wide). I rescr
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Hello, the upper part of the aircraft (#5 in the list of the beginning) is the main modification on the GWH kit to have a prototype. I have measured on picture that the back part of the top covering should be between 4 and 4.2 mm from the aft part of the structural stiffeners (blue arrows). I put in that position a temporary structure, positionned here thanks to a 4 mm wide evergreen piece. You can note that I have removed the external stiffeners (green arrows). I put a piece of 0.25 mm thick evergreen sheet on each side, to be the basis of the modification
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Thanks 😉 I carry on with the pancake area, with the airbrake. GWH F-14B kit proposes the pieces for the trapeze shaped pancake for old block F-14A. I will modify these pieces to have a trapeze one, but the airbrake by itself requires modifications. It has to be noted that even if you build a old block F-14A, you will need to modify this piece because the shape of the upper airbrake is totally wrong. In the first time, I remove the triangular part (black arrow) to have a clear edge (white arrow) Then, I fill the space with Evergreen r