Hasegawa F-14A WIP (Finally Completed)

Howdy Ernie,

Sure is great to see another WIP from you. I am learning much and TY for the info from your expert handy work. 

My modeling has been on hold for a little while. my "semi anual" job just ended after working 72 hrs this past week parking 6000 cars and trailers at the Daytona Speedway car show. Now for a little rest and back at my 1/48 HSG F-86 Mig Mad Marine I bought at the show.

Thanks again fellas and hope you all had a great Thanksgiving Day.

Did some work to move this build along a bit. Got the rear fuselage together. It needed some putty to fix a not so good fit along the leading edges and rear sides. PPP was used and it dries within a few minutes.

Did I say not so good fit? The front fuselage and rear section do not match! I thought I screwed something up but several online build reviews verified I wasn't the only one with this problem. The top part of the join is almost a perfect match but the bottom belly side has a very visible step!

A partial solution is to use some scrap sprue as spreader bars to minimize the alignment problem. I cut some sprue pieces and carefully ued a sanding stick to get a fairly decent fit. The spreader bars were Tenaxed in place.

The step is almost gone. I could not get the fuselage to expand out any further.

The Aim 54 pallets will cover most of the small step.

I will go with two Aim 54s on the front belly pallets and one Aim 7 on the center rear station. The wing pylons will have Aim 54s and Winders.

I love the Pack as well. They were actually gone long before the Super Hornet transition. In 1993, the Navy decided to go with only one Tomcat squadron per airwing. The squadrons that were TARPS capable were usually the ones who survived, hence we still have VFA-2 Bounty Hunters but not VFA-1 Wolfpack. It would be great to see Wolfpack markings on an F-35!

Ah! My favorite plane, and one of my -second- favorite markings (after Jolly Rogers, of course).  Its a shame Wolfpack didnt survive the Superhornet transition.

Oh that looks to be off to a nice start. 

BK

Magnificent cockpit on one awesome subject. I've had a Hasie F-14 on my wishlist for quite some time. I'm looking forward to seeing how this comes in your able hands PJ.

Thanks fellas!

Hogfanfs

this one is OOB except for the decals. The details are really nice but a bit over engineered with a high parts count.

Thanks for sharing Plasticjunkie! Are you using any AM parts? or all OOB? And very nice technique on the screens, I will be using that!

Very cool!  The radar display looks very convinving!  I may have to try that...

The screens look awesome!

Toshi

Oh thats a neat trick you did with the radar screens. Very nice.