F-14A VF-2 Bounty Hunters 1977

James C
Looking fantastic and definitely in 👀👍

Clifford Keesler
Welcome Roland and James, and thank you for your kind words.

John Ballman
Good luck with this kit, it can be challenging. Thanks for sharing this.
JB

John Ballman
Good luck with this kit, it can be a challenging build. Like the scratchbuild pit work.
Thanks for sharing this.
JB

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much John. This is my second build of this kit, and it has gone well so far. I am glad you like the pit. I actually found the Academy F-14 more of a challange than this one.

Clifford Keesler
It ia all primed now, and ready for paint. I got the yellow and blue painted on the vertical fins. More pictures soon.

Clifford Keesler
Major set back on this one. I got it all painted and let the paint cure for 3 days. I went to put the clear coat on it, so I hopefully could start decals this week. I had a new bottle of Testor's gloss coat, that I had never used. I use their flat coat all the time. They are both acrylic. I put the first light coat on the belly, missiles, bottom of the wings and landing gear. It took my Tamiya gloss paint off in patches, like I sprayed paint remover on the darn thing. I have to repaint parts of the belly, all the missiles, the bottom of both wings and the gear. I'm madder than a wet hen. I promptly threw that crap in the bin. It will get repaired and re-painted.

Murad ÖZER
Clifford sorry to hear about the clear coat. weird stuff, sounds like them styrene gods needed a sacrifice...

Clifford Keesler
Yea, guess they did. I just got done re-painting the belly, will do the rest tomorrow.

David H
Oh man, I feel your pain… especially on a tomcat..

Clifford Keesler
All is repaired and re-painted now. For gloss coats, from now on I think I will stick to future.

David H
Looking good, really pleased the repaint worked out. Love this scheme.

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much David and Roland, your kind words are most appericated.

Daniel
Very nice 👍 love that scheme as well, probably my favourite classic turkey look, together with the good ol vf 84 oc🙂

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Oh, following! 👀

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much Daniel, and welcome Robin. All of the decals, except for the missiles are done. I got the new decal sheet and the left vertical fin is fixed. So hopefully will finish this one soon. Weathering will be minimal, as all the reference photo's I have found of this aircraft show it being pretty clean.

Nathan Dempsey
Nearly missed this one. Nice markings!

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much Nathan.

Mathieu
Awesome livery ! Love what you did there Clifford ! Looking forward to the final pics!

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much Mathieu. Hope to finish it soon.

Clifford Keesler
She has legs and weapons. Only need to finish the wings.

Neil
Bit late for the party. But I'm in also, looks like great work to me Clifford 👍

Clifford Keesler
Welcome Neil, and thank you for your kind words, they are most appericated.

Juskifo
Hey it's taking shape for the last assemblies 👍

Clifford Keesler
Yes, I hope to finish it today or tomorrow, thank you for the kind words.

Maciej Bellos
Oops, how did I miss this one! Looks great Clifford!

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much Maciej, your kind words mean a lot. It is finished now, I will get pictures up tomorrow.

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Looking forward to the final reveal

Clifford Keesler
Thank you Robin, I had hoped to get pictures up today, but mother nature had other plans. Spent the day cleaning up downed trees.

Clifford Keesler
Finally finished.

Maciej Bellos
She is beautiful Clifford! I am jealous 🙂

Paul Moore
Clifford:

Was anyone able to say what happened with the Testors clear coat? Was that a no-no to put that on? I wouldn't have thought that. …..?

Guy Rump
Lovely build Clifford. 👍

Murad ÖZER
Beautiful result Clifford, gorgeous kitty! 👍

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Beautiful cat, Clifford! 👍

Nathan Dempsey
Wow Clifford, that came out great! The markings you chose look great too.

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much Roland, Maciej, Guy, Murad, Robin and Nathan. Your kind words are most appericated. @ Paul, no none has come up with any reason. I used Testor's flat coat on it and as you can see it came out fine. So I am wondering if maybe it was something I did.

Tom Gardiner
Lovely job there Clifford! That is a very attractive scheme. I bought the new Tamiya F-14D in 1:48 yesterday and am looking forward to starting that one day soon 🙂

Gareth Windsor
I feel like I'm repeating myself here Clifford, but here we go…… another great build my friend.

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much Tom and Gareth for your kind words, they are much appericated . @ Tom, I would love to build one of the Tamiya F-14's or F-4 for that matter, but they are a bit out of my price range. I was able to find the Hobby Boss F-14's on sale, so I bought an A and B model.

Spanjaard
very nice job!

Juskifo
👏well done Cliff

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much Spanjaard and Juskifo, much appearicated.

Mathieu
One of your best Clifford! (Just like every of your last)

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much Mathieu, your kind words are most appericated.

Clifford Keesler
I forgot the decals on the seats, will have to fix that. Shucks.