1/48 Italeri F-14 Tomcat

Gallery Article by Jason Cooper on Nov 17 2009

 

This is my rendition of the F14 Tomcat as seen in the Anime Movie Macross Zero. It is an interesting meld of an F14A with an F14D. I used the 1:48 Italeri F14A kit as a starting point. I then added pilot figures from an Academy Tomcat, as the ‘A’ cockpit is correct it was used OOB, I got some F14D burner nozzles from Hasegawa and an Airies Chin pod together with scratch built Amraams. Decals were custom made on a computer and printed on Testors clear inkjet decal paper by my good mate Benjo, who incidentally also supplied all of the spare conversion parts – thanks dude!!

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The model has been painted using Gunze acrylics, the colours chosen by eye to match my reference pictures. Weathering was completed using my usual procedure of oil paint washes and pigment powders. 

I’m quite pleased with the finished product, hope that you enjoy looking.

Cheers,

Jason Cooper

Photos and text © by Jason Cooper