Aires

1/48 F-14A Tomcat Exhausts

Product # 4121

Product Article by Jörgen Toll on Aug 23 2003

Warning!!!  Pics below show exhausts from 2 sets.  Read text.

 

 

Aires makes 2 sets of exhausts for the Tomcat. One with its nozzle open, and one with nozzle closed. All well I guess, except for they package them as 2 open or 2 closed. Those of you who know your Cats know that parked F-14s normally have one open and one closed nozzle. Has something to do with shutting down one engine before the other. 
I wanted to portray my Cat in this way, and ended up buying both sets.
Displayed in the photos are one of each nozzle. Note that you can not buy the exhausts this way.  At least not to my knowledge.

The pipe, nozzle and turbine face are all resin. The nozzles are very finely detailed and care is needed so the "feathers" won't break loose..!

There are 2 Photo etched Flame Holders for the afterburner. In real life these are more 3D, but are totally flat in the kit. I suspect you can't see the difference once they're inside the pipes, all sooted and black...

You will need one part from your F-14 kit, per engine. That is the distance between the pipe and the Nozzle in the picture on the box.

Jörgen 

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Photos and text © by Jörgen Toll