Revell 1/48 Maverick's Tomcat pretty rough

[lacrosse dad]

Anyone build the Revell 1/48 Top Gun Tomcat recently? It uses the older Monogram and Revell kit molds (in my stash), but man... the newer level 4 Revell kit is VERY rough, lots of flash and just not clean.

 

[Recurve]

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

 

[lacrosse dad]

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

Agree 100%, problem for me is I vowed to go back and rebuild the models I did as a kid......so, I l'm kinda cursed and keeping putty companies in business.

 

[Recurve]

I kinda feel the same but....now it's me getting the decals of the ones I loved as a kid, but the better tooling of the kits now, so the finished product I can feel good about but the memory is preserved in the (look)

 

[BOATMAN]

HI WELL a few months ago i built the trumpy big 1/32 scale super tomcat an wow what a built an a bit of a bad fit kit but i manged to build it an its big an i lit it up with 2mm led 's an now its finished i am really pleased with it an now near finished lightin up a super hornet also as i love lightin up these kits as to me it brings them to life
chrisb

 

[lacrosse dad]

So, the mold of this kit is so bad I'm thinking I might try to take it back thinking this was a QC issue with this one kit....lots of sanding on armarment on flat surfces where it looks like the plastic bubbled in the molds when being injected

 

[Recurve]

If there's no hope, have fun with it, make it look crashed or abandoned

 

[Jakko]

I just looked up this kit on Scalemates, and TBH, I'm not surprised it's not great. It dates back to 1981, which has to mean it's nowhere near as refined as a more modern one, not to mention chances are the moulds are old and tired.

What you could do is buy a better kit and use the decals from this one on it.

 

[ulvdemon]

That model should still be the old Monogram model for the F-14 with different decals. it is not a new mold so if you built the old Monogram F-14 Tomcat, you should know what to expect.

 

[lacrosse dad]

Hanging in there so far, not my best....not the worst. Younger brother requested a Top Gun F-14 saying I took him to 1986 Top Gun when we were younger

 

[Down Time]

Working on the same F-14 myself, the jet exhaust has me a bit befuddled. Took a break from it.

 

[lacrosse dad]

Working on the same F-14 myself, the jet exhaust has me a bit befuddled. Took a break from it.

Are you referring to the extra exhaust vanes for the engine nozzle....I think Monogram/Revell uses the same mold for their F-14D model that had different engines than the Marverick A model.

 

[Down Time]

Are you referring to the extra exhaust vanes for the engine nozzle....I think Monogram/Revell uses the same mold for their F-14D model that had different engines than the Marverick A model.

Yeah, just doesn't look right, I'll keep watching your build though.
You can see my progress in a thread I started.