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GROUP BUILD ENTRY no.51
Raffle no. na

1/72 Hasegawa F-14A, VF-213 Black Lions
by Andy Mullen
Chesterfield, UK

This is the 1/72 Hasegawa "Atlantic Fleet Squadron " Kit [E14 #00544], with markings from CAM #72025.

The kit was built out of the box.

After most of the major construction work was completed, I used various Alclad II on the leading edges, gun port, and engines. These were then masked off along with the canopy. The canopy area was then sprayed Flat black. When cured, the underside and other parts were sprayed with Humbrol Flat White #34.

After the White had cured, the tails were masked and sprayed with Humbrol #14 Gloss French Blue. I then masked and sprayed Xtracrylix Lt Gull Grey #XA1137 (FS16440). After a few of light coats of Klear (Future) were sprayed, the decals were applied, cleaned and another few coats of Klear (Future) were applied.

I used an Enamel panel wash of Humbrol #32 mixed with Humbrol Thinners and was liberally applied and then cleaned up with Q-tips and kitchen towel damped with thinners. To finish, the landing gear & doors, seats and antennas were added. The nose pitot, from Fine Molds was added by drilling a 0.5mm hole in the nose, and super gluing it. The wings, tails and horizontal stabs were slipped into their respective slots/holes and the canopy placed on - not glued as I may go back and raise it.

Copyright 2005 by Andy Mullen

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