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F14A Tomcat - PART ONE

Black Box Tomcat Cockpit Set
All the Black Box cockpit sets are marketed in hinged plastic boxes. Packed neatly inside the F-14 cockpit set box are twenty pieces of resin. One is the large cockpit tub, wrapped in a piece of foam. The rest are all the detail pieces to attach to and around the cockpit tub. These are contained loosely in a small zip-lock storage bag. Because some of the resin pieces are molded with two pieces together, the actual part count for the detail set is twenty-six. There is no piece of the original kit used inside the replacement cockpit from Black Box.

A small folded instruction sheet and the front cover artwork page finish out the packaging. The instruction sheet is a single exploded view drawing of the entire cockpit set. On the backside of the paper are text instructions outlining the process to modify the Hasegawa kit for the replacement cockpit. Where Black Box excels at resin, they are somewhat lacking on making clear instructions. I have included pointers in this writing to help clarify the proper placement of some of the pieces. Read on...