F-14B Tomcat - 1:32 Trumpeter

[Guest]

nice jet engine really cool looking

[flyjoe180]

Nice work Derek.

[Guest]

Having problems posting will try again.

[Guest]

More a RANT than an update.

Been looking at fitting the missiles. Rather than using an air-to-air combat mission, and because I bought the 'Bombcat', I wanted to fit a 'Smart Mission' set of weapons to the model.

Had I wanted to do the former then no problem as you can see below the slots on the carrier fits the missile.

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Unfortunately, the instructions give no clue as to how to fit the bombs. The box art shows a configuration, which agrees with a photo I found.

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For the kit this is the problem (square peg round hole springs to mind.)

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On Sprue sheet WY are these items not mentioned anywhere in the instructions, see bottom of photo. But removing the tabs from the carrier and some re-scribing, you can get round the problem, but it is not accurate.

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By attaching other items also found on this same sprue sheet, it is possible to mount the GBU-12 and GBU-31s

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This kit is not nearly as good as the 1:32 Trumpeter SU-27 and MIG-29M

End of RANT, apologies.

Hope you all had a good X-mas, and have a happy and prosperous New Year. Cheers Derek

[yak face]

I have every confidence in your abilities Derek , its going to look excellent. Very interesting to hear the kit is a bit of a "challenge" shall we say , nice work overcoming the bomb attachment , cheers tony

[Guest]

Keep it up. This is my favourite aircraft.

[Guest]

Thanks for your comments lads.

After some dry fitting I decided to fit the bottom panel aft of the nose landing gear. Quite a good fit. Spent most of the rest of my time filling seams.

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Quite pleased when I found the photo below which shows how rough the fit of the panels are on the real thing.

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Filled in the seams on the aft end, although they were all a fairly good fit.

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Avoiding joining the fuselage together until the last moment for ease of handling, will move onto the wings next.

[Guest]

Nicely detailed Wing each with 19 pieces.

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Fit is generally good; I am planning to show the slats, spoiler and flaps deployed which means that I had to remove all of the pin marks on the slats and spoiler.

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This is the wing assembled as far as I want to go at the moment, as the adjacent faces of the slat and spoiler have to be painted red, will therefore paint all of the components shown below separately.

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[Guest]

this is absolutely stunning so far,the office is fantastic and the 2 pilots are amazing

[Dave W]

Looking good Derek.Some years ago I built the Hasegawa 1/48 F14 which is quite big. This one must be huge.

[Guest]

Thanks for your comments Ole/Dave, much appreciated.

Finally joined up the two halves of the fuselage, if you take your time and shave off some plastic you get quite a good fit.

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Also fitted all of the missile rails I prepared earlier.

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Cheers Derek

[Guest]

wowser. is it dry fitted only or do the wings slide in?looking at it like that i see why i love this jet lol

[Guest]

wowser. is it dry fitted only or do the wings slide in?looking at it like that i see why i love this jet lol

Hi Ole,

The wings are hinged.

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If you choose to have the slats, spoilers and flaps permanently closed, you can swing the wings. I have chosen the landing config. so I cannot swing the wings.

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Cheers Derek

p.s. have you seen this YouTube clip of one landing close-up

[Guest]

jeeeeeeesuuuuuuuuuuuuusssssss man that was superb,those lucky sods stood there lol,and cool if thats the way you are displaying it

[Guest]

Hi Ole, here is another scary one, thick fog so there is nothing wrong with your screen.

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Hav'n't had much time for modelling lately, but hopefully things will improve. Have just added the Vertical Stabilizers and the Arrestor Hook.

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