AJ-213 Old Blue

Martin von Schreckenstein
nice! looking forward to your progress

Patrick Hagelstein
Following with interest as I'm planning on building the -A version later on.

Patrick Hagelstein
Yep! learned something already! Thanks Pierre! 👍

Sergej I
Nice one! 👍... which paint will you use for the blue? Seems quite a special hue...

Pierre Автор
Here's what I wrote down in my project notes from various kit manuals: xf-4 + x-14 1:5 (Tam), h65 + H34 6:4 (F-14 Haseg), 8:2 80 + 34 (F-18F haseg). Guess I'll try with the Tamiya mix as I have the paints and see where I get from there.

Patrick Hagelstein
Interesting paint mix ratios. I have the Modelkasten F-14D decal sheet as well and want to use that on the exact same kit! 😄 It seems that I'm merely a copyTomcat of Pierre's work here on Scalemates.... 😄

Pierre Автор
Yeah, perhaps I should start feeling concerned 😛

Daniel
Taking a seat, impressive detail on this kit

Treehugger
Re. photo 3. what is the correct placement of the fuel tanks? I would like to know. 🙂

On my Academy 1:48 kit for the F-14A, the two holes are off center, more inwards. Probably wrong but I haven't yet figured out what is correct. My kit seem to have this set of panel lines like you have, and your holes are centered on those panel lines, but those are wrong you say?

Pierre Автор
Well I figure the correct alignment for the pylons is somewhere outboard near those pairs of plugged holes along with the two caps visible behind them. That's where Academy placed them on their new mold 1/72 tomcat.
More importantly than the pylon position, what I consider to be visually right is for the outer side of the tank to be aligned flush with the outer side of the intake pontoon. But that's only a personal guess based on observation 🙂. So if you move the pylon, you have to make sure the pylon angle remains right and the tank doesn't stick out.
The position of those tanks is somewhat of a trick question in itself because they look different in each picture, and they possibly sway while in flight.
Hope this helps 🙂

Treehugger
I think I saw in a photo, clearly that the fuel tank is horizontal with the ground, but I will have to check it again. I guess I was wrong about thinking the fuel tanks are centered.

Cuajete
Following.

Treehugger
Actually, I looked at another photo now and now it looks the tanks are aligned with the tilted inake shapes, heh I have to investigate that issue onwards.

Pierre Автор
These show what I tried to explain regarding the pylon being offset to the exterior: F-14 Intake Correction Set (Zactomodels Z32049, 1:32) and the tank being aligned with the outer wall of the intake anft.net/f-14/f14-detail-airintake-07.htm
Regarding the stance from a side perspective, the tanks are probably aligned with the intake indeed, so facing slightly upwards [img1].

Jos Jansen
Iam in Pierre!

Maciej Bellos
Following too!

Martin von Schreckenstein
nice to see this build pick up again. solid progress

Pierre Автор
Welcome back Martin, I swore to myself to clean up the backlog before opening another box 😄

Sergej I
Glad to see the comeback 👍, looking forward!

Patrick Hagelstein
Welcome back Pierre! Good to see you back as I was waiting to commence on my own build as well. 😛

Pierre Автор
Welcome back to the both of you! Hopefully I will find time to complete this in the coming weeks.
Patrick, don't you have a few tomcats to finish already? 🙂

Patrick Hagelstein
😄 True… 😉

Piotr Sarniński-Górecki
Nice cat so far Pierre 😼 I'm in 👊🏻

David R. Meizoso
Your masking skills amaze me! Good job on those stars, definitely better than the decals!

Pierre Автор
Thanks, it's mainly the Silhouette cutter doing a good job. It'll certainly look better than the decals after some refining though 🙂

John Hughes
In answer to your question on photo 14, I have come to the conclusion that model making can sometimes turn into a highly specialised form of masochism.

Guy Rump
Looking good. 👍

Michael Kohl
I am in too

Jorge Medina
Very nice work with the masks!

Spanjaard
I agree with Jorge. May I ask what silhouette did you purchased?

Pierre Автор
Thanks, it's the silhouette portrait 3 doing most of the work really 🙂

Spanjaard
Thanks

JRSModels
Pierre, beautiful work with the Silhouette for 1:72 scale. I have a Silhouette Cameo 4 myself. I was interested in your comments about washi vs Orafol flexibility. I was wondering if you have a "go-to" resource for best blade settings for Tamiya washi sheets and for Orafol 810? There used to be a good resource group on Facebook but I can no longer locate it and guess it may have been removed.

Pierre Автор
Hi, thanks for the kind comment. It has been a while since I last used the silhouette and I cannot access my settings right now, but as far as I remember it was all on the very low end of the scale with the autoblade and cutting mat. I think I used the same for both materials too. Will post again when I get around to checking these settings.