This project has been sitting idle on my shelf for close to 3 months now. Thanks to Merlin and his Flight of the Tomcat thread I'm re-energised to break out these guys and finish them off. Here is where it all began with Dragons Memorial Flight of the Jolly Rogers.



For a couple of tiny models there sure is a lot of parts.



This is almost comical. This is Dragons idea of Tomcat Pilots. Looks more like something from the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still" :oops:



See what I mean?

















Next I jumped to the F/A-18. Its hard to believe this is from the same company let alone the same kit. Look at this cockpit compared to the F-14. Night and day.

Time for some paint

The F-18 Gets some Light Gray applied to the bottom and sides.



Here the F-14 gets the same Light Gray applied but it also extends over the top of the fuselages and canopy area.



Next we masked off the bottoms and around the fuselage on the Tomcat and applied the top coat. For this I used Light Ghost Gray.



Again with some masking and this time Flat Black was applied.







Not much to show tonight. Just some more masking and painting. I know the kit comes with decals that will cover the tail fins but all to often we has modelers hear or come across misshapen or poor fitting decals. Painting the fins will assure me no gray will be poking through

Wow you could fill the house with million of them in that scale small work
looking good and yes night and day!


Build On,
justin

I used to joke about the alien flight crew when I first saw them a few years ago. Nice work thus far Dirk. Keep at it. "Q"

This is the first of what I hope to be more of these great little F-14 and F-18's.

here are some more pictures.











Thanks for looking

Nice finish and still wow is that small.



Build On,
Justin