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Here's a little story for ya.

For the last 2 years I've been working on a 5 piece 1/48 Hasegawa F-14D commision project (all in VF-31 markings) for one of my customers, and I'm literally on the last build, but I am so sick of building VF-31 D's I need a break.

Having planned a "Christine" aka Tomcatter 111 for myself, I've since decided I'd like to build a different D, but I can't make up my mind so I'm hoping you guys can help a brutha out..

Well crap...can't get the poll function to work.

Anyway, I'm stuck between these:

VF-101 Gunfighter 155

VX-9 Vandy 1

VX-30 BH 200

VX-9 Vandy 254

NAWC F-14D

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Suck it up Buttercup and do Christine!!!!!!! :cheers:

But Vandy one will be different for you. No weathering. Can ya handle that? I need to do a new VF-101. Have this real sweet old decal sheet laying around. Might be a good use for..........

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Suck it up Buttercup and do Christine!!!!!!! :thumbsup:

That's hilarious!! :rofl:

But Vandy one will be different for you. No weathering. Can ya handle that? I need to do a new VF-101. Have this real sweet old decal sheet laying around. Might be a good use for..........

I dunnoo...Vandy 1 is defintely a possibility. Gives me a little more free range for load outs.

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254. It's just cool and different.

Or VF-24 or NSAWC 13...

-brian

Vandy 254 is defintely on the list for sure. Like Vandy 1 it gives me free range on weapons loads.

All 3 of the A's I have under construction are on the shelf, except NSAWC 13 is back on the production line.

There are so many F-14's I wanna build, I sometimes (well..most of the time) can't make up my mind which to do first..

B's are easy...A's and D's are tough for me to make decisions on.

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My vote would be for VX-30 Bloodhounds 200. Gotta love the 3 headed dog tailart. Don`t really see them represented.

Don

I like the idea of them too. Lots of free range of weapons configs, the only thing I don't like is the lack of color.

Right now I'm kinda tossed up between Vandy 254 and the NAWC NF-14D..so it's narrowing down.

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My vote is for Gunfighter 155.

Aaaahhh...this jet has a special place in my heart.

And here's why...

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The flag also flew on missions with VF-103 on the last tomcat cruise. Here it is in either Victory 110 or 112, can't remeber.

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Bryan what did you decide? You can't leave us hanging on this one! C-mon bro.

Well....ended up I couldn't pick just one, so I picked 2.

Vandy 254 and of course Gunfighter 155.

The whole purpose of the deciding factor was, I have yet to have been able to build a tomcat using a complete set of markings from a VF-Decals sheet. With FT's great selection of decals as well, that only made the decision harder. Since both FT and VF did markings for Vandy 254, I compromised and decided to use markings from both sheets. There were some minor changes between the 2 sheets (some obvious, some not), needless to say both are great products.

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone.

Btw, Gunfighter 155 will be completed first.

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