1/72 Hasegawa F-14A

Gallery Article by Mario Mifsud on Aug 12 2015

 

      

I have been away from the hobby for around 15 years and have only recently taken it up again. The aircraft is a rather old Hasegawa F14A, which I decided to build into an Iranian version from when the three tone camouflage scheme was used. The build, which was oob, went quite well, although a bit of sanding was required where the top and bottom halves of the fuselage met. As can be seen from the photos...panel lines are all raised.

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I sprayed the aircraft using enamels, with demarcation lines between camouflage colours being done with a technic I read about recently using white tack rolled into ‘snakes’ and masking in between.

For weathering I used oils, with my preference being burnt umber, which gives that brownish finish, which I felt is more adept to a desert colour scheme.

I enjoyed the build and hope you like the end result.

Thanks for looking, and hope to be back soon with more models.

Mario Mifsud

Photos and text © by Mario Mifsud