This
model represents CAG aircraft #200 BuNo 162688 of famous VF-84 “Jolly
Rogers”. There is a plenty of Tomcats made in VF-84 Hi-Viz liveries over the
internet, so I decided to build my Cat in some special painting schematic. I
chose “Desert Storm Homecoming ‘91” decal set from Fightertown Decals.
This aircraft had such livery at Aug 1991 during the last days of Desert Storm
operation and was wearing it just for some months. I built my model using
Hasegawa base F-14A kit; Aires cockpit, exhaust, wheel wells; and also Big Ed PE
from Eduard. Due to using lots of aftermarket sets, panel lines were completely
missed after sanding. I rescribed all of them again, this procedure took almost
one month and huge amount of patience. After that model was primed, finally
sanded, preshaded and painted using Gunze Sangyo Mr. Color lacquers. Prior to
decaling I sprayed one coat of Future as usually. Decals from FTD have amazing
quality, so it was a big pleasure to use them. After decaling I sprayed another
coat of Future and did some weathering with Tamiya enamels. Finally I covered my
model with Future mixed with Tamiya X-21 Flat Base (ratio was appr 1:6).
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The
armament has almost standard configuration – four Phoenixes (I really
like them), two Sidewinders and two Sparrows. They were taken from
Hasegawa Weapons sets 2 and 3.
Deck
was built from paper, painted with watercolors; tow tractor is PWMP resin.
Chains, hooks, towbar, chocks are scratchbuilding. Figures were taken from
Hasegawa Deck Crew Set. This model was built specially for “US Navy”
competition on my favorite modeling site www.scalemodels.ru
. The whole online story you can find there http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic_t_13305.html
Alexander Gromov aka
Sanchez
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