1/48 Hasegawa F-14B Tomcat

by Sam Chia

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Here’s my 1/48 scale Hasegawa Grumman F-14B Tomcat.  I had this completed about a year ago and its been languishing in my display case until the acquisition of a new camera gave me the incentive to have it photographed.  The amateur photography was done with a Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ7 in broad daylight with the photographs doctored somewhat in photoshop.

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For anyone wanting to build a 1/48 scale Tomcat, you can’t beat the excellent Hasegawa kit.  While the kit is showing its age; the combination of excellent shape, wings posable both swept and forward with full flaps; makes it unbeatable in my opinion.  I included a blackbox cockpit and a pair of beautiful GE burner cans from Shawn Hull.  Other than that, the kit was built pretty much straight out of the box.

The model was painted with Gunze Sangyo paints and weathered and streaked with an oil wash. The markings are from the old Twobobs sheet sponsoring ARC. Steve, you can probably remember this! The only change I made was the custom bomb markings just beneath the front screen on the port side. While the twobobs sheet was totally accurate, I couldn’t resist adding the mission marks that seem to have appeared further down the road in that particular guise.  As you might guess, I like mission markings VERY much.

Hope you enjoy the photos.

Sam 

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Photos and text © by Sam Chia