Revell 1/48 Maverick's Tomcat pretty rough

[BarleyBop]

There is no mistake, only try.
There is no try, only do.
There is no do, only oops!

My newbie anthem. I sing it every day.

 

[Edbert]

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

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.

 

[Recurve]

Nice !

 

[lacrosse dad]

Kinda went with my own interpretation of what wear the variable geometry wing might have on the airframe.....open to suggestions, I have at least 4 other Tomcats on the shelf to perfect the effects.

 

[lacrosse dad]

Good night from fightertown

 

[lacrosse dad]

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

 

[lacrosse dad]

Not a lot of building time tonight....we are outta here

 

[lacrosse dad]

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

 

[BarleyBop]

I LEARNED a ton

I might not know much about aircraft, and even less about model aircraft, but I'm seeing some pretty solid chops in the modeling department!

 

[blakeh1]

Love the weathering, especially where the wings fold back!

 

[lacrosse dad]

FBI raided the home of a short old fat guy on a tip he was manufacturing home bombs and missles.....one of the arresting agents was heard saying you cannot have too many AIM-54s

 

[lacrosse dad]

Let's play spot the mistake, and.......go

 

[lacrosse dad]

Anyone have any idea?

 

[Recurve]

I'm not seeing a seat for the rio ?

 

[Recurve]

Uh oh.... Did you place the aim9 and sparrow backwards?

 

[lacrosse dad]

Uh oh.... Did you place the aim9 and sparrow backwards?

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.

 

[lacrosse dad]

I had just enough time to lay in the missle racks on the hard points.....such a difficult kit. I'm hoping to get something workable for my 6th model in 43 years

 

[Recurve]

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
,

 

[lacrosse dad]

Anyone want to go "Bear" hunting

 

[lacrosse dad]

Here we go....just saying hi to each other.