Revell 1/48 Maverick's Tomcat pretty rough

Recurve said:
I just finished a Tamiya 1/48 tomcat, after doing that and a meng f18,...the revells and monograms just don't do anything for me
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That is kinda where I am at overall, maybe a little lean towards the "I'm too old to fight a crappy kit" but I get it.

I'm nearing retirement and am financially healthy, so dropping $100 to $200 USD for a quality kit is actually a paying pennies for my time and effort while avoiding stress. The latter is one reason I enjoy building and painting...stress relief.

That said, when building a kit with 800+ parts, or one of those Zoukei kits with intense complexity, there's something beneficial of the cheapo ki that you can assemble (not counting paint and finishing) in a weekend. It helps keep the mojo going.
 
Not totally accurate but if Revell is going to give me injector pins in critical detail areas I'm going to use them....front landing gear wheel bay walls

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My 6th build since returning, started out great, but one of those builds that towards the end it hasn't turned out quite as well as I wanted. I LEARNED a ton building a awful kit by Revell, my guess is they just wanted to get something out post movie. Hopefully finish in the next couple of days

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Recurve said:
Uh oh.... Did you place the aim9 and sparrow backwards?
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Recurve kinda gets the prize....my plan was to run the Maverick F-14A with a regular old box Revell fleet F-14A at the same time. I completed 2 starboard side missle racks and had to go back to the table to complete a port side weapons rack....I tried to run 2 kits at the same time but stopped 2 weeks ago.
 
You're doing awesome, looking for something workable, I absolutely love the tamiya F4B phantom,
I'm about to start my sec one, beautiful model and exquisite tooling
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