F-14D Tomcat 1/72 Tamiya

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February 13, 2026
Starting from instructions stage 39..
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February 13, 2026
I like when kit has pilots. I changed GIBs head position (and hose) to looking left (at you)
3
February 13, 2026
Even some details on back. Tamiya provided decals for pilots and ejection seats
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February 14, 2026
The kit decal screen color is quite bright. I used Tamiya clear Green to get the screens a bit darker. I really like that Tamiya made the console color dark grey not black.
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February 14, 2026
There are side walls in the kit, nice details
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February 14, 2026
You can't see much of the consoles or side walls when pilots are in
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February 14, 2026
Last good view to the cockpit, without sidewalls and outside of the cockpit. I used soldering wire and brass wires
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February 22, 2026
There was no any detail to the side walls, so I made some out of wires and plastic strip
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February 22, 2026
Thinner wires to the other wall. You have to be careful not to put details to the places that have wheel well door parts etc.
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February 24, 2026
Front wheel well with added detail painted and weathered
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February 27, 2026
Main wheel wells also gets some wires as typical Tamiya style there is none.
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March 1, 2026
I bended the wires to the right places. I did this before I attached top fuselage/wing so that I could get more easily to the inside walls
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March 1, 2026
I also added some green wires, as there were too few from first installment
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March 3, 2026
After top fuselage is installed I added some more wires painted and weathered wheel bays
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March 4, 2026
Comparison shot between FineMolds wheel bay and Tamiya one
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March 6, 2026
Odd thing for Tamiya kit, but the fit is not perfect. I'm not totally sure if it me, but I can't figure out what I could have done wrong..
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March 6, 2026
Easy fix though, I take shim off the underlying structure
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March 6, 2026
Cockpit with coamings and sills before clear parts goes in
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March 7, 2026
Everything masked for painting. Wings and vertical/horizontal tail is only in place for photo. You can only make the plane wings swept on one direction if you want to avoid gaps, here all those parts are still missing
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March 7, 2026
I didn't put the strakes under the engine nacelles either as I believe Tamiya quality and put those on only at final assembly
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March 8, 2026
I made some random spots with black and white with stencil and pre shading to panel lines (Wings and vertical/horizontal tail is only in place for photo.)
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March 8, 2026
More white spots on the bottom and panel lines with black. This is the real configuration when I paint.

Comments

36 13 February, 18:19

Roy McKay
Taking a seat....

1 13 February, 20:33

TV_scalemodels Author
Roy McKay: 😂

1 14 February, 07:57

Maciej Bellos
Dragging a seat next to Roy. This will be fun!

2 22 February, 22:07

Dave Flitton
Watching.

2 23 February, 03:49

TV_scalemodels Author
Maciej Bellos: This is not side by side cockpit, you have to be in front of or behind Roy 😁. Hope this is also fun for you as I already enjoy this build..

3 27 February, 14:25

Franco Echenique
following it! great work so far yet!

2 27 February, 14:44

Łukasz Gliński
cool wiring, following

2 3 March, 15:17

Guido
Great details indeed with the wiring, taking a seat 🙂

2 3 March, 18:11

Dom SAVE
Following, I love the level of detail and the clean execution.

2 3 March, 19:38

Roy McKay
I finally got my hands on a kit. Will be watching with even more interest now!

2 3 March, 19:53

Skyhiker
Watching this one

1 4 March, 05:58

TV_scalemodels Author
Roy McKay: You should stop what ever you are working on and start this one, or wait until you need some mojo build. This kit is really good.

I put comparison shot between FineMolds wheel bay and Tamiya one (whole comparison is in my channel Youtube Video ) What do you think about Tamiya decision not to put wire/hose details on the wheel wells at all? In my opinion it is better not to have wires than bad ones, but surely Tamiya could put those on as clearly seen for example on their F-35 (1/48) weapons bay..

1 4 March, 07:02

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Grumman F-14D Tomcat 1:72 Tamiya

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1:72 Grumman F-14D Tomcat (Tamiya 60795)

Grumman F-14D Super Tomcat

US Navy (1794-now)
VF-2 Bounty Hunters, USS Constellation 100 (Cdr. of the Air Group)
2003 - Persian Gulf CV-64 USS Constellation

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