Rick's Hasegawa 1/72 F-14A Tomcat "Sundowners"

[BBdave]

Love the Tomcat especially when it's in an inverted negative G dive with a mig


Dave

[flyjoe180]

inverted negative G dive with a mig

I've never understood that line from Top Gun. How can you be inverted, in a dive and pulling negative G? Unless you were pushing on the stick of course to recover from the dive... Anyway back to reality.


Looks good Rick, be interested to see how the pre-shading works out, I don't have much luck with it myself.

[rickoshea52]

Masking applied to the DSG and Barley Grey panels using a new 11 scalpel blade. I need to finish the ejection seats now and fit them followed by the canopy which will be closed. The paint masks arrived the other day so things are ticking along.


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[rickoshea52]

I also picked up a tube of AK True Metal paint yesterday at my LMS to have a go at trying something with the exhaust nozzles. This could all go very wrong!

[Guest]

Just caught this one Rick ,going to be a great looking Cat! Looking forwarsd to the next update

[rickoshea52]

Got some work on the bang seats and canopy done. Lots of filing and trial fitting was required to get the height correct for clearance between the top of the seats and the canopy. Handles have been made for the top only from 0.2mm lead wire looped around some scrap round plastic rod then superglued onto the seat and trimmed. I still need to touch in some black on them and re-shape before the canopy gets fitted.


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[flyjoe180]

Nice work on the ejection handles Rick. This is coming along nicely.

[rickoshea52]

I finished the ejection seat handles and fitted the badly fitting canopy, it would have been simpler to assemble it open maybe but I had decided to do it closed and assembled the main canopy before realising the lousy fit. Some filling will be required.


And then I can paint it.


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[takeslousyphotos]

Good result on the seats Rick ............ This one is coming together nicely.

[papa 695]

Just seen and caught up on this one Rick some very smart work so far

[Guest]

Hi rick,


You're doing an excellent job here.


Francesco

[Guest]

Will keep watching, I think this is going to be a Beauty when finished Rick


John.

[flyjoe180]

Nicely done so far Rick. Paint next, this is going to look great.

[rickoshea52]

Light Grey applied, the underside was a pain with lots of nooks and crannies. I applied a slightly darker shade around the wing roots with the wings forward as I have seen these with sweep marks from the weather shield then painted it with the wings swept.....shame that some of the paint scraped off!


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[flyjoe180]

Your Tomcat is looking great Rick.