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GROUP BUILD ENTRY no.61
Raffle no.52 

1/48 Hasegawa F-14D, VF-31 Tomcatters
by David Bey
Singapore

Here's my last entry for this Tomcat GB, a Hasegawa 1/48 F-14D, "Tomcatter 100".  I used Yellowhammer decals, Superscale decals, TwoBobs weapon stencils and a bit of the Eduard photo-etched set (which i won't be buying ever
again)

Paint was Gunze Acrylics and Gunze Metallizers

I had to mix the decals because yellowhammer's decals were lacking in some areas. Their stencils nearly disappeared when placed on the body, and I did try Superscale's ones but those were too obvious, so i went for the more "low-viz" look. I used the Superscale stuff mainly for the underside, like the "NAVY" word and the b/no. The big tail decal, from Superscale took a lot of micro sol to get it to settle, and some touch ups as the decal was a little too small. yellowhammer's one had
some problems, as I recall Brian Marbrey saying. The insides of the tail were Superscale also, as yellowhammer didn't provide them

I lost the port vertical stab anti-collision light to the carpet monster

Putting the exhaust area together was quite depressing, as I had painted everything and realized the exhaust sub assembly didn't fit very well with the main body, especially the squarish area.

I loaded her with one phoenix, 2 sidewinders, 1 sparrow, 2 GBU-12s.   Phoenix stencils came from Hobbydecal dry transfers, and I have to say that after my experience, I won't be using dry transfers again. Twobobs weapon stencils were also quite hard to put on the missiles as they were a tad too big and were quite a beeyatch to move around

Much preshading, post-shading was used to dirty the aircraft, but I feel it's still lacking.

Thanks for looking, and thanks to Steve and everyone at ARC for a great GB all around!

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