Here are some of my latest builds.

This is Academy 1/48 F-14A with Superscale decals. Waiting for weapons and decals had some silvering on the tail. The blue looks black on the tail but is really blue.





This is Monogram 1/48 F-14A with Hasegawa decals. Black wing tips decals did not fit so they are hand painted. The TARPS pod is from Hasegawa and the exhausts are from Academy.






This is another Monogram 1/48 F-14A with kit decals and boarding ladder. Exhausts and radar are from Academy.

OOPS! Forgot one picture. Refueling probe bay is from Steel Beach and the probe is metal tubing.

Great work!

You sure know your F-14's - the VF-154 jet also has BOL launch rails fitted.

Are the BOL rails aftermarket items?

Great work... they look sexy! B)

Did you hand painted the canopy windshield for your academy F-14? The black color looks abit different from the black color at surrounding. :D

i think my order for the same Swordmen marking is on the way..
if you didnt tell i wouldnt have known that the tail is blue.. since my ref did indicate a blue tail for Swordmen :D


kuman

Swordsman eh? Sound like popular. My favourite is still Jolly Rogers... hehehe... have one on the way from lucky models.... for 1/48 academy kit.

heheh the reason being the decal i bought have both the Swordmen squadron for F-14 and also the FA_18F.. that's the reason..

and yes Jolly Rogers also is my favourite... :D and i think Italeri F-14 got the Jolly Rogers decal by default in the box.. :D

sorry ek hijack sikit :D

kuman

Thanks everyone.

F-4dable, the BOL rails are resin from Steel Beach. They make a lot of F-14 parts.

Flylice and Kuman, the Superscale decal instructions say black for the tail and canopy. My reference book shows this exact plane with very dark blue tail and canopy. The only black is from the front windshield to the pitot tube.
Also the VF-32 internet homepage has this exact plane showing the blue. The blue color I think is FS15044 which is also used on the tails of CAG VFA-192 Hornets and CAG VMFA-212 Hornets. I am doing both of those Hornets and will post when they are done.

VF-84 is also my favorite. I posted my Academy 1/48 F-14A and F-4J with those markings a few weeks ago on this forum.

Yes, I was just thinking the VF-32 decal used is by Superscale, and is probably for an Desert Storm era F-14A.

The one from Fightertown mentioned by kuman is for a F-14B.

Have to say that VF-32's boss bird / CAG bird seems to maintain a more or less consistent scheme.

Was never a big follower of CAG schemes, but I would be lost even if I did.

So many decal companies made decals for what appears to be more or less the same scheme (with minor variations), applied to different aircraft.

Twobobs also did one, but it was for the OIF era.

Hi F-4dable,
Superscale sheet 48-897 is for Desert Storm F-14A. Two Bobs sheet 48-056 is for F-14B from OIF. Two Bobs does not call out the blue tail on their instructions. I have both because I like to build colorful planes and ones with kill markings and mission markings, they make for interesting subjects.

another cat lover.. super sexy... thanks for sharing.. we want more!!

Terrence,

I got both the Academy and Monogram tomcat, which one is easier to build?

Thanks Zendened, I have more in the works but am finishing up three Hasegawa 1/48 F/A-18C Hornets and an Italeri 1/48 SH-60B Seahawk.

Masterqq, both the Academy and Monogram are very similar. I think that Academy copied the Monogram and made it recessed lines. The way they both go together are almost exactly the same. Academy nose and forward fuselage is a little out of scale compared to Monogram and Hasegawa. Overall, I like Academy a little better than Monogram because of the recessed lines. Hasegawa is the best but really hard to put together and very expensive.

Here is an update to my latest Monogram F-14A. I changed the missile load to twin Sidewinders instead of Sparrows.