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I haven't posted on here in quite some time.  Here's my Tamiya Tomcat.  It's not 100% accurate, but I like it a lot.

 

Fightertown Decals

Aires AeroBonus seats w/pilots & AIM-9 seeker covers

Eduard Brassin wheels

Master Model AoA probe & nose cap

Tamiya & Mr Color paints

Hobby Master flight deck

 

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20 minutes ago, Rodney said:

I like how it turned out.  I have the Fighter Town decal sheet and want to build the same.  What is not 100% accurate about it?

 

Rodney

Hi Rodney...for starters, the wolf head, inboard "NK's", and the forward red stripe are not sized for the kit, but for the Hasegawa kit.  They will still work, but are a tad too large.  Also those 70's 14's didn't have the stiffeners on the spine and VF-1 had a different gun vent.  VF-1 mostly carried the TCS chin pods too and depending the year, had the earlier beaver tail.

 

They are working on decals that will fit the Tamyia kit, but I really wanted to use those and didn't realize they were too big until I was ready to apply them to the jet. Still, those decals will work fine if you're not worried about the size.

 

Thanks for looking!

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Great looking wolfpack kitty  :D

I'm working on a first cruise wolfy kitty too, hardest thing is keeping it clean....I'm really not used to build overly clean jets, I prefer over weathering them a bit. Looks like you have kind of the same issue as i do. :wave:

It's a gorgeous build and you got the decals down far better than me

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10 minutes ago, Aigore said:

Great looking wolfpack kitty  :D

I'm working on a first cruise wolfy kitty too, hardest thing is keeping it clean....I'm really not used to build overly clean jets, I prefer over weathering them a bit. Looks like you have kind of the same issue as i do. :wave:

It's a gorgeous build and you got the decals down far better than me

 

 

I kinda steered away from the first cruise idea because of the beaver tail & they kept the jets do darn clean.  I settled for 77-79 timeframe.

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1 hour ago, BoeingDriver said:

 

 

I kinda steered away from the first cruise idea because of the beaver tail & they kept the jets do darn clean.  I settled for 77-79 timeframe.

Good call! :D It's  darn hard keeping things clean...

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6 hours ago, A-10 LOADER said:

Excellent job even with the inaccuracies you pointed out. One thing I noticed is your yaw string is way too long, it should be about half that size.

 

Steve

 

Thanks!

 

You know, I had seen a pic of a jet that had one that its tip rested between the rain diverters.  I just went w/that.

 

As a matter of fact, those still photos from the Final Countdown show those jets w/pretty long yaw strings.

 

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