1/144 Academy F-14

Gallery Article by Greg Kerry (chinagreg) on July 10 2015

 

      

This was my second Academy 1/144 aircraft and thankfully it was better than the first (an F-16). It still only has one set of decals but at least it seemed to have no other obvious imperfections.

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With this kit I was trying to recreate the kind of pictures you sometimes see of US carrier decks swirling with steam from their catapaults, creating a kind of dramatic dry ice effect. For this I simply used cotton wool held very close to the camera lens.

The deck tractors and figures are excellent - from a very old Dragon set that included a good section of carrier deck and either an F-14 or an F/A-18 (if memory serves me at all well). Unhappily, through several house/country moves over the years I've managed to lose this. Instead I made my own with a thick plastic base superglued to an old wooden presentation box lid. All painting was by Tamiya acrylics, washes and drybrushing by artists' tubed acrylics.

Greg Kerry

Photos and text © by Greg Kerry