Tamiya 1/48 F-14A Tomcat

[boatman]

OH THE BONES I love the jolly Rodgers couler scheme as that's what ive got for my tomcat in a few yrs it will show up but this model is fantastic when will the cockpit maskin come off Jack ?
chris

[scottie3158]

Jack,
That's a cracking result.

[Jack L]

Jack,
That's a cracking result.

Thanks Scottie.

OH THE BONES I love the jolly Rodgers couler scheme as that's what ive got for my tomcat in a few yrs it will show up but this model is fantastic when will the cockpit maskin come off Jack ?
chris

Thanks Chris. I thought you would like the Nimitz version. Cockpit mask will be the very last thing to come off after weathering and final varnish.

[Steven000]

Looks epic with its decals on! :thumb2:
Steven

[Jack L]

Oil wash done, would love opinions to whether I have gone too far/not far enough with it. Been staring at it that long I can't judge. Hopefully apparent in the bad light pictures

Before:


After: (Yes I managed to snap the tail...)

[Guest]

Looks good to me! Smashing job.

[Jack L]

Thanks Chris. Looking at it in the daylight, I am happy with it.

[Jack L]

Change of pace today with these chaps...bit cringing seeing the blown up photo...sure they looked better with the naked eye, but figure painting has never been particularly natural to me. Hope to make a bit of a carrier deck base for everything to go on.

[boatman]

HI Jack the cat looks great in the Nimitz vershion but when I was doin my 1/144 scale tomcats the tails had yellow tops an a silver front tail fin but the same decals an there is nothing up with your flight deck crew better than I could ever do an on the flightdeck too really brilliant Jack im watchin
chris

[Jack L]

HI Jack the cat looks great in the Nimitz vershion but when I was doin my 1/144 scale tomcats the tails had yellow tops an a silver front tail fin but the same decals an there is nothing up with your flight deck crew better than I could ever do an on the flightdeck too really brilliant Jack im watchin
chris

Thanks Chris. The only reason is I didn't have yellow paint and didn't really want to buy a fresh pot that would be unlikely to be used again.

[scottie3158]

Jack,
Not a wingy person but I know talent when I see it, that is a cracking job.

[Jack L]

Jack,
Not a wingy person but I know talent when I see it, that is a cracking job.

Thank you Scottie, very kind of you.

[Jim R]

Hi Jack
Weathering looks spot on to me. Certainly not overdone in my opinion. Figures are fine. Unless you are a Peter Day standard figure painter blowing up the photo never does us any favours. As part of a carrier deck dio/base they will be great.
Jim

[Jack L]

Hi Jack
Weathering looks spot on to me. Certainly not overdone in my opinion. Figures are fine. Unless you are a Peter Day standard figure painter blowing up the photo never does us any favours. As part of a carrier deck dio/base they will be great.
Jim

Thanks Jim

[Jack L]

Calling her done: Will add some proper finished photo's up in due course.