Author Topic: Grumman F-14 Tomcat Ideas and Inspiration  (Read 98611 times)

Offline GTX_Admin

  • Evil Administrator bent on taking over the Universe!
  • Administrator - Yep, I'm the one to blame for this place.
  • Whiffing Demi-God!
    • Beyond the Sprues
Re: Grumman F-14 Tomcat Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #175 on: March 05, 2021, 12:58:46 AM »
Nice info.  Nice pic of how the nozzle part adapts to the back end. I was thinking of trying the F100 nozzle to the F-14D adapter but that pic looks a lot more like the F100 directly onto the back end section of an A model.  Makes things easier from the standpoint of robbing parts from other kits.
Thanks again guys.

Dare I say a pair of F-16 engine nozzles would go nicely:

All hail the God of Frustration!!!

You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it.

Offline kitnut617

  • Measures the actual aircraft before modelling it...we have the photographic evidence.
  • Holding Pattern
  • *
  • I'd rather be dirtbike riding...
Re: Grumman F-14 Tomcat Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #176 on: March 05, 2021, 01:14:22 AM »
I did that for my RAF F-15, I made a casting of an F-16 exhaust nozzle.

Offline GaryF

  • Newly Joined - Welcome me!
Re: Grumman F-14 Tomcat Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #177 on: March 05, 2021, 06:02:31 AM »
That’s the plan.  I have plenty of Hasegawa nozzles for my Hasegawa Tomcat and I can get a few PW nozzles from Tamiya Aggressor F-16 kits for my Tam Tomcat project. 

Offline GTX_Admin

  • Evil Administrator bent on taking over the Universe!
  • Administrator - Yep, I'm the one to blame for this place.
  • Whiffing Demi-God!
    • Beyond the Sprues
Re: Grumman F-14 Tomcat Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #178 on: March 05, 2021, 11:43:30 PM »
Hmmm...TF30 powered F-16 also possible?
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it.

Offline finsrin

  • The Dr Frankenstein of the modelling world...when not hiding from SBA
  • Finds part glues it on, finds part glues it on....
Re: Grumman F-14 Tomcat Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #179 on: March 07, 2021, 06:55:41 PM »
Hmmm...TF30 powered F-16 also possible?

Certainly by using styrene engineering principles.

Offline kitnut617

  • Measures the actual aircraft before modelling it...we have the photographic evidence.
  • Holding Pattern
  • *
  • I'd rather be dirtbike riding...
Re: Grumman F-14 Tomcat Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #180 on: March 07, 2021, 11:50:53 PM »
That’s the plan.  I have plenty of Hasegawa nozzles for my Hasegawa Tomcat and I can get a few PW nozzles from Tamiya Aggressor F-16 kits for my Tam Tomcat project.

I think the exhaust I used came from a F-16N kit that has been used as a donor for other projects.

Offline GTX_Admin

  • Evil Administrator bent on taking over the Universe!
  • Administrator - Yep, I'm the one to blame for this place.
  • Whiffing Demi-God!
    • Beyond the Sprues
Re: Grumman F-14 Tomcat Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #181 on: August 16, 2021, 02:43:40 AM »
RF-14:

All hail the God of Frustration!!!

You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it.

Offline GTX_Admin

  • Evil Administrator bent on taking over the Universe!
  • Administrator - Yep, I'm the one to blame for this place.
  • Whiffing Demi-God!
    • Beyond the Sprues
Re: Grumman F-14 Tomcat Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #182 on: January 16, 2022, 02:36:18 AM »

All hail the God of Frustration!!!

You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it.

Offline GTX_Admin

  • Evil Administrator bent on taking over the Universe!
  • Administrator - Yep, I'm the one to blame for this place.
  • Whiffing Demi-God!
    • Beyond the Sprues
Re: Grumman F-14 Tomcat Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #183 on: July 01, 2022, 03:34:54 AM »


CFBV
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it.

Offline M.A.D

  • Also likes a bit of arse...
  • Wrote a great story about a Christmas Air Battle
Re: Grumman F-14 Tomcat Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #184 on: July 03, 2022, 01:29:44 PM »
Don't see this everyday 😯

MAD

Online The Big Gimper

  • Any model will look better in RCAF, SEAC or FAA markings
  • Global Moderator
  • Cut. Cut. Cut. Measure. Cut. Cut. Crap. Toss.
    • Photobucket Modeling Album
Re: Grumman F-14 Tomcat Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #185 on: November 28, 2022, 08:45:30 AM »
A good read.

Well, I’ve been to Topgun so Tom Cruise thinks he’s me

Commander Richard “Corky” Erie flew the F-14 Tomcat with the US Navy. Here he describes the strengths and weaknesses of this massive and iconic carrier fighter aircraft.


https://hushkit.net/2022/11/27/well-ive-been-to-topgun-so-tom-cruise-thinks-hes-me/

Work in progress ::

I am giving up listing them. They all end up on the shelf of procrastination anyways.

User and abuser of Bothans...

Offline ysi_maniac

  • I will die understanding not this world
Re: Grumman F-14 Tomcat Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #186 on: December 30, 2023, 04:36:32 AM »
Eurofighter tomcat: carrier based and variable geometry


Offline ysi_maniac

  • I will die understanding not this world
Re: Grumman F-14 Tomcat Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #187 on: February 05, 2024, 04:09:55 PM »
Merging 2 related projects.