Here some photo's of
my most recent build kit. It's a F-14A Tomcat in the colors of the
VF-31 'Tomcatters' onboard the USS Forrestal in 1985. I build it out of the box.
The kit fitted perfectly, so no frustration when building it. It's a pitty that
the cockpit details where very poor compaired with the Revell 1/48
F-14.
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I painted the kit
with Revell's 'email color' light gray that I mixed with some white paint.
I didn't used an airbrush but I just brushed it. I accentuated the panel lines
with thined black paint to give it a more realistic look. This is the first time I
tried this method and i'm very pleased with the result. The
accompagnng decals were very good. I used some microset and -sol to let
them fit better.
I
made a small round Carrier Deck Display Base to place the model in it's
‘naturel habitat’. I scanned a 1/72 Carrier Deck into my computer and
printed out a bit larger.
Eduard
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