Subject: Re: F-14D Tomcat VF-2 Bounty Hunters
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Andrew Taylor" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:56:42 -0700

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

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Work like you don't need the money.
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Sing like nobody's listening.
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andrew Taylor 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 9:28 AM
  Subject: F-14D Tomcat VF-2 Bounty Hunters

  Gallery Template #02

  "Revell 1:72 F-14D VF-2 Bounty Hunters" 

  by "Andrew Taylor"
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        Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 01.jpg here

  Hi there fellow modellers!! This is my second submission to ARC following my Sea King in tiger stripes which I hope you all appreciated.  This my 1:72 Revell F-14D represented here in VF-2 Low vis scheme when it was introduced in 1997.  The aircraft was deployed onboard USS Constellation and was heavily involved in the middle east (as most tomcats were in their twilight years).

  My last model was built purely out of the box so I decided this time to see what the whole aftermarket thing is all about.  To my tomcat I added a Velinden Resin cockpit and new Resin GE F110 Exhaust nozzles from Royal Resins.  Both were fantastically detailed and of much better quality.  I did get an Eduard photoetch sheet but decided not to use it as the parts are just too small for me to deal with in this scale.  Overall paint scheme was done using Xtraclix paints with my brand new badger airbrush and weathering done with just a simple black colour wash and bronze pigment to create the marked areas near the wing pivot points.  A few tricks were used that are featured on this website such a canopies dipped in Future and the seem filling without sanding.  Both had great effects and all credit goes to those who wrote the articles on those tips.

  Overall I had an absolute ball with this kit which I haven't had in a long time with various kits.  Revell have produced a great kit which fits together very well and the accuracy is awesome.  All I can say is that it looks like a tomcat. "Tomcats Forever...Baby".  This tomcat will be put with a Super hornet which will be in the same markings to represent the changing over from one to the other.  Hope you all like my new creation.  Comments are welcome.

        Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 02.jpg here

  Photos and text © by "Andrew Taylor"