Bad Kitty
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25 25 August 2023, 16:46
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Taking a seat, will follow with great intrest as I just have started a Tomcat project myself.
26 August 2023, 19:37
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Thomas, this is my first Cat in 48th, thought I'd start with a cheap one that I could afford to bin without thinking about the cost. 😩
27 August 2023, 06:05
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Sorry all as I've been neglecting to update this, busy with other projects , but here's the latest ..
24 October 2023, 17:38
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Thomas, I think Daniel did a piece on how to do the Hasegawa kit avoiding the pitfalls..good luck . I have 2 so they'll be next on the tomcat list 😬
25 October 2023, 14:36
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So trial fitting the canopy , I dropped it and it vanished. Now, where has that gone ? CRUNCH, ah, that's where ( or similar words were used) . So this project is on hold until I can get a replacement canopy.
30 October 2023, 08:27
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I feel with you, did exactly the same thing with my current Tomcat project.😬
After a lot of frustration I managed to find an incomplete F-14 kit with a canopy on Ebay.
Hope you find a new canopy soon.
30 October 2023, 09:51
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Thanks J , I'm going to email one of the companies that make f14s to see if I can get a replacement. It was a bit narrow and that was part of the trouble. I'm gonna see if a Hase one fits better 😁
30 October 2023, 17:51
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This seems to be anything but a testbed, but the learning curve is steep 👍
Wonderful progress, for canopy just buy a second model, possibly a used one...
31 October 2023, 08:49
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thanks Sergei,I'll definitely finish it even without the canopy, just for the experience. Patience will prevail and I'm sure something will turn up… 😁
31 October 2023, 17:23
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Aaaand, something did indeed turn up. An italeri tomcat I was watching on eBay at a stupid low price got reduced !!! Below £20
13 November 2023, 17:26
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😁 yup, good old italeri, the new canopy is just "different " and fits perfectly 🤣🤣 although the kit is " on the shelf" as I got into another couple of projects, but it willl be back
20 January, 09:36
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As for photo 12, I'd put on some vallejo putty (assuming you don't plan rescribing into the putty, which won't work well imo), and then cut excess putty off with sharp blade, then sand flat with small smooth metal file.
If one knows, that one plan to rescribe over the putty, then I like using 'sprue goo' (Tamiya's liquid cement + many bits of plastic in the bottle). Some annoying things wiht sprue goo, is that if too dry a little difficult to handle, too liquid and it melts thin surfaces of plastic perhaps too efficiently in larger amounts. Also, sprue goo tend to leave air bubbles unless the goo is allowed to simply slowly flow into a cavity.
20 January, 10:35
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painting looks good - the grand canyon is an unpleasant surprise.
you can't give up now - lol
5 March, 21:35
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Thankyou for the encouragement Thomas. It WILL be finished, I'm always up for a challenge 😂 there's a bit of a blemish on the upper fuselage that I need to fix. But I'll finish the filling and then blend the whole area in.
5 March, 21:48
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When I was a teenager, Tamiya had this beautiful color catalogue of all their kits as I remember it, and it all looked so nice (at least by that age's standard).
And I remember seeing in that catalogue, this one paint scheme for the F-14 looked so nice with the red line and all. 🙂
5 April, 07:57
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Yeah , VF1 was my fave at the time, must admit the early ghostriders scheme has pipped it to the top of my list (VF142)
5 April, 19:46
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First attempt at a Tomcat in 1/48. So I chose a kit that I could throw if needed…