Patrick Hagelstein Welcome on board! I build like a glacier on downers and switch projects more often than my socks, but this one is a club build with a deadline, so this one is in for the finish. 😉
Daniel 1995 on USS Lollipop? 😄
Nice+clean work so far 👍
12 February 2021, 09:33
Slavo Hazucha Can´t miss it when you get to the bench!😉 And already I like your unorthodox approach to what get´s done first & in what order 😄 👍
12 February 2021, 09:48
Patrick Hagelstein Welcome on board guys! 👍 As said, I really hope to finish this before the deadline. Fingers crossed! 😄
@ Daniel, I saw that too... Weird...
@ Slavo, thanks for the compliment! The reason I do the wings first is twofold. I want to check my choice of colors before committing to the rest of the build and secondly, I want to be able to add the 'wing smears' without interference. What I do is finish the wings, put tape over them and insert them into the fuselage. I then trace the wing glove onto that tape, remove it, cut out the trace line and reapply the tape. I can then put oil paint smears on the wings and smears them in semicircles before lifting the tape again and let them dry.
Oh, and since I want to build this one in flight, I'm waiting on crew figures before committing to the cockpit build. 😉
Slavo Hazucha Got it - minus the smears ("fast" position) I remember doing the wings first on the F-111 too - kind of makes sense on a swing-wing aircraft...
12 February 2021, 16:00
Patrick Hagelstein Yeah, I want to portray it in the wings extended mode, so therefore the smears would be visible. I don't want to have them abruptly stop where they go under those gloves.
Patrick Hagelstein Hi Roland and Sergej! Yes, it's a "B". 😄
Looking at the BuNo, this plane started out as an "A" initially delivered to VF-21 in the early '80s. I'll check my references, but it could be I'm building this bird twice: Once as a VF-21 F-14A and once as a VF-103 F-14B. Weird...
Patrick Hagelstein
Martin von Schreckenstein
Slavo Hazucha