viperbite Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 (edited) It's been quite a while since the last time I touched any scale model many years ago. Feel good being back. Several kits on the shelf, all are 1/72, among them is the long waited G.W.H 1/72 F-14D, thanks to G.W.H for giving it as present. I will not review the kit separately, but will talk about some fix and change during the building. To give you a quick answer about the kit, from my perspective view, good enough but not flawless. The first thing came into my eye, is for a D model but no BOL and any bomb racks. The LANTIRN is missing either, but the kit does offer you the pylon for it... I don't know maybe G.W.H would consider to offer a weapon set separately soon? No idea. Anyway, they just do what HASEGAWA did 20 years ago with no weapons in the box of any aircraft. And the consequence is that I had to find the BOLs and bombs and racks in the after market, thank god, the evil HASEGAWA made some acceptable sets before... I can't say the BOL in 72nd scale of Hase is good in detail, but at least the size and shape is quite acceptable, well anyway I'd hang some Sidewinders on it. If you consider the BOL from HobbyBoss, I'd say get rid of the idea. The detail looks OK but the accuracy size and shape is offset. 20190806154142 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20190806154213 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr The cockpit tub looks fine, but the seats, looking good but I will still try some resin stuffs from Aires or so... 20190806154223 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20190806154216 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Edited March 3, 2020 by viperbite Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viperbite Posted August 6, 2019 Author Share Posted August 6, 2019 Some molding lines are visible due to the slider mold, a little sanding can easily move them 20190806154226 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20190806154229 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Also the ejector-pin-holes should be filled and sanded 20190806154235 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20190806154402 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr You can see I'd also filled the holes for the pylon of the fuel tank, yes, which were in wrong position 20190806154358 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr The fitting of the kit is pretty good, you can see from the intakes attaching to the fuselage, not glued 20190806154249 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Quote Link to post Share on other sites
polar bear Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Looking forward for your work for looooooooooooong time. Happy to see you and your work here again. Great starting of F-14. Welcome back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Falconxlvi Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Looks good - I’ve been waiting for someone to start this kit! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viperbite Posted August 7, 2019 Author Share Posted August 7, 2019 About the over-pronounced bulges on the spine, here are some comparison with Tamiya, to my eye, yes there are some over-pronounced here and there, some little sanding should be useful. 20190806154427 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20190806154424 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr The merging area of the spine to the fuselage should be sanded too 20190806154539 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Some re-scribe work should be done after the sanding, here is the result. 20190806154559 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20190806154554 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Also there is some filling and sanding and re-scribing need to be done on the beaver tail. 20190806154535 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20190806154602 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Quote Link to post Share on other sites
delayar Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Interesting to see this build. Seems there is about the same amount of filling and sanding as for the Hasegawa kit. Cheers, Markus Quote Link to post Share on other sites
picknpluck Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 I'm building the same thing right now...using the Aeromaster sheet. Take care on fitting the intake ramps--they're fiddly when you try to install the intakes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viperbite Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 Some progress. Since I decided making a small diorama that the aircraft is parking on the deck, I added some tie-down points onto the landing gears. 20190806154508 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20190806154518 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20190806154526 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr And when at the front line, the cover of ARP often removed from the aircraft. 20190806154608 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Also I spent some hours to build the boarding ladder, but in the end, I decided not using it... 微信图片_20190829143915 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 微信图片_20190829143920 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr And some little work on the tail hook. 微信图片_20190829143907 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viperbite Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 Now I move to the cockpit and canopy again, spending hours focusing on the safety belt of the seats. Aires really made some wonderful photo-etched parts for them, but bending the cooper material part really took a lot of time to achieve the proper final look. 微信图片_20190829143904 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 微信图片_20190829143900 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 微信图片_20190829143858 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Now it's the mirrors. Actually I have to remove the center mirror for the pilot, because the huge HUD added on, the handler for the pilot should be moved to the canopy from the original position on the wind-shield. I'll do that later... 微信图片_20190829143849 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 微信图片_20190829143851 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr I rebuilt the cooling pipes on the frame. 微信图片_20190829143833 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 微信图片_20190829143836 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Dealing with the fitting of Aires resin cockpit and kit canopy, especially the rear IP cover which had the most fitting problems, spent couples of nights for me. but the result is OK to me. 微信图片_20190829143808 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 微信图片_20190829143826 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 微信图片_20190829143819 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 微信图片_20190829143822 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Quote Link to post Share on other sites
A-10 LOADER Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Wow, great work and even more impressive in 72nd scale. Steve "TOMCATS FOREVER, BABY...!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ViperZero Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Beautiful work so far! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
afterburner Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Great work! A couple night to you of fitting that resin would equal a month to me. What are you using to attache the PE to the canopy? I use very small dabs of white glue or if I have Future'd it, maybe even super glue. That's like the scariest part of my build. As is masking. You make it look easy! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viperbite Posted September 6, 2019 Author Share Posted September 6, 2019 Thank you guys for your kind replies. Now I'm moving on to the LANTIRN pod and the adapter. I've the HASEGAWA pod also I've the one from Academy's new F-15E, at the first glance, A's detail is better than H's, but A's shape of the intake for cooling is off. To me it's much easier to add some rivets than to correct the shape, So I chose H's. 微信图片_20190829143802 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr I cut the pod front and rear part half to make some pivot regarding some ref pics. 微信图片_20190829143758 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 微信图片_20190829143736 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Not like the 15s or the 16s, the pod hangs just below the wind root, it's too obvious to see if there are no vents at the very back of it, so I decided to add them. The rectangle one is 2mm*3mm 20190906112413 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr I used 2 different size of grills, 0.3mm and 0.5mm. Since there might be two layers on the real thing. 20190906112406 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20190906112409 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20190906112416 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr The 0.5mm was put in the lower layer. 20190906112420 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Then the 0.3mm on the upper layer. 20190906112434 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr The other one is a rounded vent just below the intake. 20190906112438 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr I used the punch to cut a 2mm grill of the 0.3mm net sheet. 20190906112442 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20190906112446 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Well, the grills are of course off-size in 72nd scale, but adding those will increase the visual detailing of the model. 20190906112450 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Major Walt Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Awesome! I love watching a master at work. Very inspirational! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jenshb Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Nice work! How do you attach the circular grille ont he pod without clogging the mesh? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viperbite Posted September 6, 2019 Author Share Posted September 6, 2019 (edited) 19 hours ago, afterburner said: Great work! A couple night to you of fitting that resin would equal a month to me. What are you using to attache the PE to the canopy? I use very small dabs of white glue or if I have Future'd it, maybe even super glue. That's like the scariest part of my build. As is masking. You make it look easy! very small amount LOCTITE 460 1 hour ago, jenshb said: Nice work! How do you attach the circular grille ont he pod without clogging the mesh? a tiny drop of super glue Edited September 6, 2019 by viperbite Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viperbite Posted November 15, 2019 Author Share Posted November 15, 2019 Some updates... 20191115174930 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191115175022 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191115174959 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191115175007 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191115175014 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191115175044 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191115175051 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191115175058 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191115175708 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viperbite Posted November 15, 2019 Author Share Posted November 15, 2019 Also I made a custom LAU-138 BOL pylon from the Hasegawa kit and casted some resin parts. But I'm quite sure that GWH will release another kit with the BOL, just can't wait till then. 20191115175715 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191115175724 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191115180315 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191115180301 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191115180339 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191115175029 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191115175036 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Spent couple of days to paint the seats 20191115175106 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Quote Link to post Share on other sites
A-10 LOADER Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 Holy cow, excellent work especially at that scale !! I love that you added the clear pieces for the lights, this will look so much better in the end. The boarding ladder and tie-downs are models all by themselves, very impressive. Steve "TOMCATS FOREVER, BABY...!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viperbite Posted November 20, 2019 Author Share Posted November 20, 2019 On 11/15/2019 at 11:23 PM, A-10 LOADER said: Holy cow, excellent work especially at that scale !! I love that you added the clear pieces for the lights, this will look so much better in the end. The boarding ladder and tie-downs are models all by themselves, very impressive. Steve "TOMCATS FOREVER, BABY...!" Thank you Steve. Continue with the tub 20191120093618 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191120093104 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191120093129 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191120093159 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mstor Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Your paint work on the cockpit side consoles is amazing. Even in my hayday, I couldn't do that well in 1/48 and this is 1/72. Well done Sir! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Very nice work!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Major Walt Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 This is going to be awesome 😎 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Thadeus Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Some nice work picking details. That cockpit looks almost like resin! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viperbite Posted December 18, 2019 Author Share Posted December 18, 2019 Thank you guys, just some very tiny progress coloring the fabric IP covers. 20191218102619 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191218102633 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr 20191218102640 by Brent Jin, 於 Flickr Thank you Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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