Ok,
for those of you who have not read James Huston's Flash Point, you
owe it to yourself to go have a look. The book basically boils down to a
ancient Islamic assassin order taking on the US, which results in alot of
action being flown by VF-103 out in the Med, concluding with an attack on
the ancient fortress of Alamut in western Iran. The initial assessment
says that the Navy's GBU-16 or 24's wont penetrate the 100ft thick stone
covering, but a -103 pilot gets the idea to mount the Deep Throat (GBU-28)
on the F-14s. 2 bombs are rushed to NAF Signonella, built & then
loaded onto a COD for the Carrier, then mounted to a pair of F-14s.
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This idea hit me when I was
considering what exactly to do with a Revell 1/100 F-14 kit, now I have my work
cut-out for me: take this kit, convert it into a passable B, add a GBU-28 and
then do-up in VF-103 garb. Sounds easy enough. . . I started by grabbing a
couple of spare F-16 burner cans in the same scale (at least it looks the part)
and got’em clipped & sanded down to fit. The Jolly Roger markings were
donated by an old Testors F-14 kit, as well as the wing glove pylons. Most of
the weapons came from the stash, with the exception of the GBU-28, which was
scratched by combining a 1/100 LGB seeker head & tail unit with the body of
a leftover Isracast 1/32 Python-3 AAM. First time I’ve ever done something
like that and I’m quite pleased with the results. Oh by the way, this whole
project was completed in under a week for the What-If Modelers (www.whatifmodelers.com)
annual 1-Week Group Build.
Bud
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