Quaralane said:
What scale is that one? Looks like it'll be a good build
1/48
Ok so I am underway with my tomcat build, first time I have taken a stab at one of these and to make my life “easier†I am throwing in an Aires Cockpit. No do not get me wrong it looks beautiful with really rich details, but from what I have read and my dry fitting it is going to be a tight squeeze.
So I start out with the front fuselage, these is some gorgeous detail on the top of the cock pit, I guess where the canopy locks so the top ridge on the fuselage need to go.
This sort of shows a before and after
Next the tub of the cockpit, look and the beautiful RIO panel
Pretty huh?
So I start looking some references guess what at some point the F-14B’s where updated and they this square panel. Like this.
What’s a boy to do, I could pretend I did not see it but I have AMS and a black box bombcat update that has this piece. So what I need to do is somehow merge these pieces. So I get this idea have you ever seen the movie Faceoff? Basically John Travolta and Nick Cage swap faces. I cut off the Joystick thing for later
Then do the “face offâ€
The lovely round radar screen was removed and voila
Next cockpit painting, here are the pics
Later back to do some modelling
Rob