F-14A VF-1 1:48, Work In Progress

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October 23, 2023
Air intake ramps, lowered, showing the bypass duct and the actuator ram...sort of
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October 23, 2023
The beginning of the reworked boat tail. It's missing some refinement and the aft light cluster. The countermeasure dispensers are from Furball.
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October 23, 2023
One of the exhaust nozzles, redone in open position with aluminum sheet.
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October 23, 2023
Drop tanks getting some care.
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October 23, 2023
Design for the early gun gas purge vent arrangement in Adobe Fusion 360.
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October 23, 2023
Design for a vent on the nose.
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October 23, 2023
The previous parts fresh off the printer.
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October 23, 2023
Not exactly fine fitting aftermarket here...
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October 23, 2023
Getting there.
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October 23, 2023
Cockpit getting done. It has some small mods but it was reasonably good from the box.
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October 23, 2023
More cockpit..
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October 23, 2023
Crew members in their seats
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October 23, 2023
Crew members in their seats
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October 23, 2023
Design in Fusion 360 for the ECS vents in the lower fuselage. A mesh will get sandwiched between the frame and the fan box.
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October 23, 2023
And off the printer
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October 23, 2023
Close up of the ECS vent parts, next to the original vents as they came with the kit.
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October 23, 2023
Some aseembly required.
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October 23, 2023
And roughly installed in their location.

Comentarios

8 23 October 2023, 21:30

Patrick Hagelstein
That is some nifty 3D printing there! 👍🏼

23 October 2023, 22:49

Sergej I
This looks like an adventure, in! 👍

24 October 2023, 05:47

Andrés Fernández Lucena
Thank you! It is indeed and an adventure and somewhat masochistic, for sure. As you see the kit was pretty banged up and I could have easily bought any other of the Tomcat kits out there which are leaps and bounds above this one... Nevertheless I enjoy improving mediocre kits more than anything else. And I couldn't really bear to throw in the bin the kit which I had bought as a kid with the little money I had back then. So we're in for the challenge!

25 October 2023, 21:43

Alberto
Wow, that is some serious scratch work, well done! The cockpit looks great already

28 November 2023, 19:08

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F-14 A Tomcat, VF-1

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