Hello Modellers,

At Christmas, I started building a model that I received as a win for the best model in October.

Because I had one identical kit at home, I'm building two at once.

I bought Eduard's resin bikes, Quickboost chairs and Chin, and Fightertown decals decals.

The kit is perfect and therefore the building is in perfect condition. Current situation in photos

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I love the cockpit in this kit, and you did a bang up job painting them! I also like the fact that you can slip the wing over the stub after painting. I really want a Tamiya Tomcat now! I see there is nothing behind the wing, do they give you an insert to depict the air bag being inflated when the wing is in the forward position? Also, do they give you both open and closed exhaust nozzles? That was my favorite part of the old Academy kit. TF30 powered Tomcats were usually seen parked with one nozzle open and the other closed (unless they had been manipulated during maintenance) and Academy let you do that by supplying both.

Yes. The TF30 did have a very elegant looking tailpipe!

cats in black 🙂

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Two Tomcats, how cool is that!

splash camouflage. Here are a couple of photos as I advanced. The result will be the breaking of the uniform gray color. The next procedure will be lighter gray as - 50 shades of gray

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next steps. I applied decals of the VF-114 Ardvarks squadron "Vark of Arabia" and I applied neutralwash

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Aardvarks. Cool!