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GROUP BUILD ENTRY no.43
Raffle no. 40

1/48 R/M F-14D, VF-124 Gunfighters
by Chris Teet
Oklahoma City, OK USA

This is the first of four submissions I plan to enter to the group build: a 1/48th scale Revell/Monogram F-14D. The model has the kit decals for VF-124 Gunfighters in a low-vis TPS scheme and the Black Box Bombcat conversion kit, Paveway II laser-guided bombs from the Hasegawa Weapons Set D, and fuel tanks contributed by a fellow ARC member whose name I can't remember.
This kit sat on my bench half-finished for a couple years until this build motivated me to complete it. The loadout consists of 2 AIM-9's, two GBU-12's, 2 fuel tanks, one AIM-7, one GBU-10 (was going to be a GBU-24, but I was informed this squadron didn't get to carry them), 1 LANTIRN pod, and one AIM-54 (was going to mount two GBU-10's, but accidentally damaged one of the bomb rack adaptors, so decided to imitate the loadout of a VF-102 F-14B in the ARC walkaround and mount one of the kit Phoenixes next to the GBU). The model was painted using Model Masters acrylics and enamels, and the decals save for the tapelights given Dullcote to make them match the dull TPS finish.
I apologize for the poor lighting, but my camera doesn't have a flash and just recently decided to not work unless hooked up to the computer.

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