1/48 Hasegawa F-14B Tomcat

Gallery Article by Edwin M. on June 17 2011

 

Jolly Rogers Last Flight

This is the 1/48 scale Hasegawa F-14B Tomcat "VF-103 Jolly Rogers Last light".  I started building it in April 2007, then took a long break before starting again in late 2009.  It finally got completed in early 2010.

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The kit was built largely out of the box.  Limited scratch building was done to make hydraulic lines on the main landing gear as well as the rain repellant on the nose and also the missile rails.  The kit sadly doesn't come with any weapons.  You have to get the extra weapon set if you want to add weapons to it.

The weathering efforts included pre-shading with German gray, as well as post shading with gray and a bit of mahogany. The model was finally treated with an oil wash on the panel lines and rivets.

To see the full set of photos and a more detailed write up on this model, please visit my site at http://edwindesigns.blogspot.com/2010/10/hasegawa-148-scale-us-navy-f-14b-tomcat.html

Edwin M

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Photos and text © by Edwin M