Skull Leader

That's the right paint scheme... but that wasn't the picture on the box... there was a painting of the tomcat in flight and the bottom had no picture (just brown), but there was an advertisement for a SU-27 kit. The top picture on the box didn't even have any text as I recall.

My god, ANOTHER ONE????? how many does this make now? We can stop with the minmay statues any day now...

That is absolutely wicked-sick..... lol, say I've got a picture of this girl I know...... (just kidding!)

That's primarily what I use them for. The sad thing being, they're the "best" place to get models in Arkansas.... and that makes me wanna cry. Before this particular store moved across town, they kicked ass... they even had a kitbash section were you could buy leftover sprues for .50 a piece (each one had to be labelled in type and scale before it could be sold) and a section for aftermarket decals... they had Hase's out the butt (they still do... just no Tomcats on hand) I could even get roleplaying stuff... now the forecast for every trip to that store will be a 99% chance of "suck". Oh well, I picked up another can of flat clearcoat (I have to stock up every time I go...any clearcoat to be found in my hometown seems to insist on being a glosscoat) and some more sheet-styrene. Picked up some more academy modelling putty too... been out for a while. There's another smaller-time dealer in another town not too far away that I'm gonna try tomorrow... he's supposed to be pretty good about havng kits on hand that no one else does.

To be honest, the kit was vacuum-wrapped, so I couldn't see for certain. None of the pictures on the box showed anything about weaponry, and none of the writing (what little of it that was in english) said anything about it either (to top it all off, for a 1/72 kit, it was 40 dollars! For that price I didn't want to take any chances.) The guy watching the store today was a total n00b... he was into RC racing and knew NOTHING about model planes. (he DID tell me that Hobbytown USA is no longer able to order Fujimi F-14s though, or at least, their computer told him as much)

muy bueno! I look forward to more pictures!

hmmm, recovered/recently discovered stock, or a second production run???

*George Lucas continues to pace the floor in his office out at Skywalker Ranch. Those who pass by can often hear him mutter: "must not suck..... must not suck.... must NOT suck...."*

I went to Little Rock today, hunting for a good Hase or Fuji VF-14D kit... all they had was the Fujimi F-14D prototype (the one with the white and red paintjob) in 1/72 scale... and although I suppose I could bash it into a decent Shin- F-14, there were no hardpoints on the model kit, nor did it include any. My hunt continues.. I also saw one of the Revell monstrosities.... It listed it as a D, and the pictures show D style nozzles on them... but with the A type fairings! The nozzles stuck WAY out on the back of the jet itself. It also mis-labelled the aircraft. The model itself (and the paintings on the box) showed VX-9 markings on it while the box insisted it was a VF-154 Black Knights.... strange....

Man oh man.... this isn't good. It's at times like this I wish HG was listed on the stock exchange... we could buy them out and liquidate them.

Once you guys get settled in and I get settled into my summer routine, I just might

This excites me... I wanna see space so bad... but I don't want to join NASA to do it...

Hey Roy, I don't recall being given much of a choice... just design the character and he'll be assigned. I mentioned that my preference was for the VF-1, but it didn't seem to have much effect... oh well. Maybe I'll try again later.

The pictures looked plenty detailed to me.... I just didn't see a reason to get all worked up over it... you ask for "pics" when there are already pics up... people will think you're a nutter.... ask for "more detailed" or "different" pics and all of a sudden you become someone people might want to help (and nicer at that).... a little courtesy goes a long way man. While I don't share A1's dislike of the item in question, I think if you want help with something, ya gotta ask nice

I'd love to have one too, but given the size (they're 1/100 or 1/72 I think) it most DEFINATELY isn't worth the fortune everyone charges for them.... I don't care who made them...

seriously, Turbo..... slow it down just a bit. If you're bidding on one of the things, you'll see soon enough, jeez.... What's wrong with the pictures on the auction page? Covers pretty much everything as near as I can tell...

Damn, I'm glad we have you here to tell us these sorts of things, David

Ideally, I am looking for a flight sim that most accurately portrays the F-14 in combat roles... As a bonus, I'd love it if it featured these aircraft to fly also: F/A-18 Hornet A-7 Corsair II F-8 Crusader A-7 Intruder F-15 Eagle F-16 Falcon I've got F/A-18 Precision Strike Fighter and it does pretty well for the F/A-18, however it only features one campaign and you can only fly the F-18. (only sim I know that has a full classroom complete with training sections for each aspect of the fighter... it also sims carrier ops) I'm looking for a sim that deals with the F-14 first... and if one exists... other aircraft also..... any reccomendations?

*pilot* silly me..... jimmy's autopilot toggle is on the RIGHT... that was his jettison switch.... hope he doesn't notice.. Given all the crap the F-14 has gone through in the past two decades, I'm sure lots of plane captains have come up with very unique ways to upgrade their planes. Such as the first F-14s that were modded to use LANTIRN instead of coming factory standard with the wiring (weren't the Jolly Rogers one of those?)

Look in the "toys" section of Macrossworld (no, not the "toys" section of the forum) and you'll find plenty of comparison pictures between the 1/60 and the 1/48.

I'd love to see one, David! I'm still on my own "spiritual journey" to learn all of the differences between the A and D and how Shin's aircraft fit into all of this. I don't know exactly when I'll do it, but I want to build one!

I guess companies feel that you don't get as much detail out of an aircraft in flight (can't see the intricate flaps or landing gears, etc), so unless I was building an F-14 "in the groove and calling the ball" I'd probably have to mod.

I'm with Graham on this one, I want an RX-79(G) complete with all weapons and backpack... It may be supposedly one of the weakest gundams, but it's one of the coolest!

My 1/48 scale aircraft knowledge is rather void... much like David I used to be all over the 1/72 scale series until I stopped building and sold all of my models (HobbytownUSA in North Little Rock still has my 1/32 VF-41 Blackaces Tomcat on display, that was a monogram *or revell, can't remember which* kit with aftermarket decals made by a local dealer that specialized in that sort of thing) After hearing David talk all day long about different fighter models, I've GOT to go to Little Rock and pick up a new F-14 model (the problem being, I want a D and I want to be able to display it in flight mode, wings open... it seems like all of the best kits demand that you build it wings swept and on the ground... or else mod the hell out of it)

I know, but be that as it may, ask around and most people who have heard it 9/10 times probably heard it from FMJ... lol, I suppose it's a good thing I don't eat cheerios, huh?