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Pierre (gota)
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F-14A 160379

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7 29 September 2018, 09:30
Spanjaard
sorry to hear about the flash and other issues.... specially since i have two in my stash 🙁
15 October 2018, 06:56
Pierre
It's still buildable, it just needs extra work and careful panelling work (which I had trouble with, the Hasegawa engraving is very fine and hard to reproduce).

I have since bought a few old ones on Ebay, the three I have from 1990 are fine, the one from 2006 already shows the same mold wear.
15 October 2018, 06:59
Spanjaard
hummmmm i have checked one of mine, and the instructions say 2013..... panels look ok, but yes, quite shallow. a bit of flash is present, so maybe not so bad at the end. maybe they did new tooling at some point?
15 October 2018, 20:56
Rex
They didn't re-do this tooling,,,,,they created another tooling altogether. Then, every once in a while, they popped these old tooled kits into boxes and sold them, even though there is a newer tooling available.

It is just like 1/72 scale Hasegawa Phantoms, the older F-4E tooling was still being sold in newer boxes, even though they had a newer tooling of the F-4 series already released.

The big clue is usually the price, if you are getting a Tomcat or a Phantom for what seems like about 1/2 price, in a new box, it is almost always the old tooled kit, not the newer one.

If you want a flash free old tooled Tomcat, you need to get the oldest release you can find,,,in this case, find one in a Minicraft-Hasegawa box, the molds were much fresher than "Atlantic" and "Pacific" releases in boxes that only say Hasegawa on the box.
15 October 2018, 23:50
Spanjaard
thanks Rex!
15 October 2018, 23:52
John Thomas
Nice work
16 October 2018, 00:22
Pierre
@Spanjaard, yup, this one is from 2013 as well. The panel problems are concentrated on the portside air intake (they're almost totally worn out) and on the upper and lower fuselage pieces (aft portside especially was warped on my kit, which I chose to reshape using epoxy).
The thing still builds into a Tomcat fine, it just makes a tricky kit trickier 🙂
16 October 2018, 06:28
Spanjaard
thanks for the info 🙂
16 October 2018, 20:15
Patrick Hagelstein
I've seen that flash occurring as well... Too bad! But still, you made a very nice Tomcat out of it! 👍
17 October 2018, 04:29
Cuajete
Well done so far.
17 October 2018, 12:30
Ekki
Following.
18 October 2018, 18:16
Pierre
Thanks! Getting there, just the final tidbits and it'll be done.
20 October 2018, 15:55
Martin von Schreckenstein
looking awesome. gotta step my tomcat game up🙂
24 October 2018, 10:09
Spanjaard
great job!!!
24 October 2018, 10:10
Pierre
Thanks guys!
24 October 2018, 17:16
Ekki
Brilliant job. Well done!
27 October 2018, 17:48
Ronan
Magnifique, Pierre 👍
5 February 2020, 11:49
Cuajete
Very nice. Congrats!
5 February 2020, 22:25
Bernd Grün
Great build, it looks very nice. Congratulation! 👍
30 March 2023, 14:01

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