Bowcat's Tamiya F-14D Tomcat 1/48

[boatman]

HI Bob you doin a very nice job on her very skilled modeller you are:thumb2: an just as a matter of intrest does this kit give you the carrier approach altitude indicator decal on the front landin gear as I see its shown on the box top but I cant see it anywhere on your decals as I was talking to another forum member who is building the hornet an he dint have it either in his kit. Or they maybe have left it to you to paint in the colours on it yourself
chris

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Chris.

I'm not sure mate, I'm building it in flight (somethign Tamiya clearly don't want you to do) so haven't looked at the gear. I'll try and remember to have a look tonight for you.

[boatman]

Cheers Chris. :smiling3:

I'm not sure mate, I'm building it in flight (somethign Tamiya clearly don't want you to do) so haven't looked at the gear. I'll try and remember to have a look tonight for you.

OK cheers Bob its not impotant but the kit being tamyia I thought they would have
chris

[Mr Bowcat]

Chris, is the thing with the 3 lights the bit you mean?



If so then no, no decal. They want you to paint it.

[papa 695]

Don’t know how I missed this Bob, but great work on the cockpit. Looking great.

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Ian.

[boatman]

Chris, is the thing with the 3 lights the bit you mean?

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If so then no, no decal. They want you to paint it.

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YEA Bob that's the gadget in my hornet kit they gave me a decal strange tamyia don't as normaly they are up on everything as they make very good kits
chris

[Mr Bowcat]

Evening chaps. :smiling3:

Pushed on quite a bit today. First job was the rear landing gear doors. These are made up of 3 parts, but as I mentioned the kit isn't designed for a wheels up build, so some modifications were required.

The first two parts weren't too bad and just required thinning in order to fit.



However the problems started with the third part. Because this is designed to be open and flush against the fuselage it has two large depressions (presumably to save some plastic).

I could have filled the holes and used the kit part, but instead I decided to scratch them out of sheet styrene. It seems to have worked quite well.



With that out of the way I fitted the bomb pallets, shoulder pylons, stabilisers and tail fins.

[Si Benson]

Nice fix on the landing gear doors Bob, really starting to look the part now:thumb2:

[colin m]

Great work Bob. I've built a couple of kits were no provision for raised gear was catered for. The answer to hold the doors in place while fixing was, a nice lump of blu-tack in the gear well.

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers guys. :smiling3:

Colin, I'll bear that trick in mind for the future. :thumb2:

[flyjoe180]

Looking superb Bob. Good to see one wheels up being built in a flying attitude

[Jim R]

Hi Bob
Great modelling. All looking neat and sorted. The dry fit of the cockpit looks superb. Well done with the "wheels up" alterations. That sort of thing will make your model unique :thumb2:
Jim

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers gents. :smiling3:

The build portion is pretty much done, still need to fit the exhausts but can't do that until I've ordered some acrylic rod.

In the meantime I put together the weapons loadout. Not exactly correct for the aircraft I'm building, but as ever I build how I want, not necessarily completely per the instructions.

[Guest]

That looks like a strange load-out indeed 2000s equivalent to the 1940s fighter-bomber, I suppose.