Grumman F-14 Tomcat

PETROS TZOUANOS Most difficult part on Fujimi the air intakes, Fujimi mild is a bit better than Hasegawa, more crisp detail and softer plastic is used.

Tatsuto Toyonaga Got from eBay dealer

Patrick Hagelstein Enjoy! It's a nice kit!

Jan Tichý Hi, have you started this project? I am about to buy this kit also and I am now looking for some brass - you seem to be fitting brass for Hasegawa to this - how is it going?

Roland Gunslinger The Hasegawa PE should work. But IMHO the OOB cockpit is nice. I didn't used the PE set for my A build.

Olivier Hi, it's not started yet. There is no PE available for Hobby Boss F-14D hence I ordered the Hasegawa one some time ago. Today, You also have eduard PE for Tamiya and CMK F-14D available.

Jan Tichý I was wondering how it really fits, I just watched an on-line videobuild on YouTube and the guy stated in the inbox review that it is really close looking to Hasegawa, I got the impression that the Chinese engineering got really "inspired" by the Hasegawa tooling, thus the set fitting rather well. I think I´ll try that.

Martin o I think the graph is wrong in this case. there is no way they would do this with the old tool

Cuajete Thanks Martin... It's possible. ¥3920 in HLJ... A bit expensive to be old mold,
although it seems to include an emblem for the 2002 Mediterranean / Persian Gulf Cruise:

https://1999.co.jp/eng/10674855?utm_source=scalemates

Patrick Hagelstein Nah... The old mold can only be built as an F-14A. The extra parts for a -B are designed for the new mold version.

Cuajete Thank you, Patrick!

scalemates can someone fix the timeline in that case please?

Patrick Hagelstein Almost goofed it up but it should be correct now.

scalemates thank you

Patrick Hagelstein

Calvin Gifford Very nice Cat! Where you with 154?

Patrick Hagelstein I'm in!

Evgeny Brovkin Not soon
Even not get kit from post

Patrick Hagelstein Ah... Gotcha! I'm still awaiting my kit too.

Patrick Hagelstein Whoosha!!! I'm sold!

Patrick Hagelstein Same boxart though.

ekard-ynot got mine now (just arrived in ustralia) - it's slowing being shipper around the world... small company, so can't do a tamiya style global availability in an instance... and WORTH the wait.

Soeren . The problem is not the point of a small company, its more the point that they dont have distributors everywhere.
In Germany for example is no official distributor for AMK kits, which means that you currently can't buy AMK kits in Germany.

ekard-ynot oh no!! sounds like a bus op....

Maciej Bellos Not missing a cat!

Holger Kranich Seems as we have a new Tomcat enthusiast among us! Welcome Pierre!

Pierre Hi! I somehow ended up with 10+ cats in the stash, so I need to plan ahead a bit

Holger Kranich You can never have too much Cats!

Daniel The Internet loves cats, so do we^^

Maciej Bellos Following it also!

Maciej Bellos Following!

Patrick Hagelstein In as well!!!

Michael Hickey Sweet!

Pierre Welcome! For now, just trying to figure out what to do with the pile of cats. This one will definitely get built first though.

Patrick Hagelstein In!!!

Stephan Ryll Your welcome Roland
This will be a possible project for 2020

Michael Hickey Love the early scheme of the Jolly Rogers Cat, I'm in like Flyn.;)

Stephan Ryll Your welcome Michael I also like the scheme

Patrick Hagelstein Yeah! I saw it too!

Patrick Hagelstein academy.co.kr/6q/board_news_..de=12082&pCategory=NEWS1

Patrick Hagelstein I've seen pictures of a VF-51 decal option somewhere but it doesn't show in Academy's announcement.

Federico Burchianti Is it confirmed that the sprues contain pieces for the later versions? I would like to build it as a F-14B.

Patrick Hagelstein A through D, all in there!

Federico Burchianti That's perfect! Any idea where we can buy it online (best price/release date)? Rarely I have bought an Academy kit newly released and still not imported in EU.

Patrick Hagelstein I sent an email to my favorite model shop in Aachen if they will receive it. Haven't heard back yet.

Federico Burchianti The Korean ebay shops have started to sell it.

Melchior Heavy maintenance! I'm in!

Martin o Welcome!

Pierre Wanna see where that project leads!

Martin o Welcome Pierre! Me too!

Calvin Gifford Good luck! That album image looks like the hulk of a bird VF-154 gave to the USS Kitty Hawk when she arrived for ABE training! :-D

Patrick Hagelstein Today I received the kit! Not only did G.W.H. cut out the wrong vertical stabilizers (I can live with that, as my build had the scab plates retrofitted anyway) but also cut out the P&W engine (rounded) shrouds!!! The shrouds in this kit are the carbon fibre GE-110 (square) shrouds for the -B and -D..... Why go through ALL the hassle of cutting out those parts (I certainly think it's more labor intensive hence more expensive to cut the parts out than to leave 3 grams of plastic in the box) and ending up with an 'unbuildable' kit? WHY???.....

The AIM-54As look cool though...

Patrick Hagelstein Otherwise I'm just totally flabbergasted by the insane level of detail now that I'm holding it part for part next to FineMolds offering.... The Hasegawa and Fujimi Tomcats are great kits coming from the late '80s. The FineMolds Tomcat blows those completely out of the water! Then comes G.W.H. with even more refined details and just those rivets and little thingies one would only see up close next to a real Tomcat. I have to come up with a solution for those missing parts but this is definitely the Tomcat I'm gonna build up as a detailed representation.

Simon Zhang they are starting to send replacement parts in China

Patrick Hagelstein Is there a way to contact G.W.H. from outside China then?

Simon Zhang All I can find is an email address: marketing@lionroarmodel.cn

Patrick Hagelstein Great! I'll give it a try!

Patrick Hagelstein Well... Sent an email to Simon's address but heard nothing back.......

Pierre So they basically cut the wrong sprues at the factory... Will be interesting to see whether there is any support for western customers.

Patrick Hagelstein Old School Tomcat: I'm in!

Soeren . Hehe indeed.
I wrote a lot with Sio - the AMK CEO - and he said that they get a lot of positive feedback for the kit.

And you will always hace folks who will find something which isn't perfect and say the kit is bad etc...

Patrick Hagelstein True! When it's time to build it, I'll see how it will build up.

Mathijs Beenhakker Wauw! you guys make a lot of assumptions about me...but what can i expect from "Hace folks"....No its not the area behind the wing gloves in front of the rear wings/elevators but at the time of my comment i saw the kit reviewed on "Florry models" and the area around the rear elevators was much too curved around the rear end of the engine shrouds....This issue has clearly been addressed because the final release was again delayed even though Florry was send the kit as the final product...But you guys have fun with your SJW discussion and maybe next time look at the date of my comment and maybe exercise some patience and wait for my answer instead of acting like blue haired fishmouths

Soeren . Well let's say that you started the assumptions with this kind of comment:
"Great way to pile your company into the ground"

And btw. nice way of insulting people

Munkyslut Ha! I don't even understand the comments Soeren but I was impressed with the "blue haired fishmouths" Haaahaha that's epic mate

Ralf Pätzold Will the trolls please get their coats at the reception and leave my thread. Thank you. And please remember we're all grownups who have nothing better to do than obsess about minutiae of plastic replicas, so there is nothing to get serious about.

Augie *Leaves a few handbags at the door and sneaks off*

Patrick Hagelstein Sorry! Was not my intention to start a trolling conversation... I just wanted to know any issues with the kit.... :-\

Treehugger Seemes to me, the front canopy piece in the kit doesn't look like the box art, same as the F-14 I have from Academy (12253). I am very disappointed that they didn't get this right.

Daniel Nice! was it worth the waiting?

Dawid Branski Oh yes! Very long awaited !
Youtube Video

Patrick Hagelstein Following with interest.

Ferenc Sarka Wow. This will be a hard work. The work with cokpit of the Tomcat is very good. I am waiting for the result. Keep going. Good luck.

Piotr Sarniński-Górecki THX Ferenc

Patrick Hagelstein Hi Piotr! Welcome to Scalemates! A truly impressive setup and a very good start already! Excuse me for asking but with that whole slew of high quality kits and even higher quality aftermarket products, why did you choose the Revell Tomcat? In my opinion there are far more refined Tomcats out there which will build far easier than that one. Just my curiosity...

Martin o It's all my fault! I did not manage to write my Tomcat review in time!

Patrick Hagelstein

Piotr Sarniński-Górecki Haha - no Martin - it's not your fault :-D Patrick - I've started this Tomcat long time ago About 2 years I suppose. I want to build him OOB. Meantime my friend convinced me to build Su-34. When I finished Fullback I've returned to Tomcat. But ... the CAG bird is not my favourite type of markings. I prefer "regular soldiers" :-D So I've found decals with VF-2 markings. And then ResKit wheels :-D And that would be all but... I've started a research about this particular bird and step by step the Connie's Last Dance project was born :-D Yup - I know this is probably worst Tomcat model out there but.. I've started and I will finished it Oh - I forgot - I've got the discontinued PE parts from Eduard dedicated to this model. That ensured me that I MUST finished it :-D
But I'm also sure that my next Tomcat will a GWH's one
Thx guys for interesting and warm welcome

Patrick Hagelstein reading your whole story, it could ONLY be the Revell one. In that case, good luck and we'll guide you along your dark path of Tomcat building. There will be light at the end of the tunnel in form of that GWH Tomcat as Martin can surely tell you about then.

Piotr Sarniński-Górecki Hahahaha - it's good to have you both by my side :-D

Martin o haha to be fair, Revel is definitely not the worst 72 Tomcat, that place is occupied by Italeri beyond any doubt, Revell being actually pretty good in comparison But on the other hand, after building many Hasegawa and Academy kits, the GWH is just a dream

Patrick Hagelstein Piotr, could you tell me where you found those Dr Pepper Resins Hornet intakes? I don't seem to find a(n online) shop stocking them and I can not read the Dr Pepper Resins website...

Piotr Sarniński-Górecki Didn't find them though... They were on the list of options to Hornet in scalemates so I add them but not to the stash - only to wishlist. I'm afraid they are unavaible

Patrick Hagelstein The link on Scalemates only leads to a fishy lawyer site. At least when using Google Translate. Fingers crossed they might show up somewhere!

Martin o this should be good. watching for sure

Piotr Sarniński-Górecki Should be It's a distant project by now. And main problem is that carrier deck section by Italeri is a discontinued item And it's hard to find

Patrick Hagelstein Knowing Italeri, they will rerelease at some time in the future. What about finding it on Evilbay then?

Piotr Sarniński-Górecki Same as looking for a needle in a haystack...

Patrick Hagelstein

Holger Kranich This is definately a cool work! Love that Tomcat!

Jeremy Wiltcher Thanks, it was so much fun I plan on a few more NSAWC aircraft.

Frank Krause Nice camo! Looks a bit futuristic, but like it.

Dutch Very impressive camouflage scheme! Nice work.

Murad ÖZER Lovely camo!

Jeremy Wiltcher A few new pics were added

Spanjaard eye catcher for sure

Nathan Dempsey That is a great camo Jeremy I'm realizing that you have more adversaries aircraft than anyone!

Jeremy Wiltcher It has always been a favorite model subject of mine, along with fictional navy aircraft

Neuling Beautiful colors!

Stephan Ryll Very cool cat

Augie love it!