F-14A Weathering Stage 2

I think Miss Molly is starting to look better. The panel lines were done with a fine lead mechanical pencil and touched up here and there with thinned black-brown acrylic paint. The shading was toned down and unified with a light over-spray of MM Gloss Gull Grey (from the bottle this time with an airbrush). I started putting some of the decals on but I realised this was a mistake when I accidentally lifted the "USS Carl Vincent" off the starboard wing and so will wait until the landing gear is in place to finish off.

F-14A Weathering Stage 1

I started weathering and detailing and now I have renewed hope for this build. I have to go over the panel lines and do some touching up but I'm a little happier now. There are some gaps and mis-aligned seams that jump out but hey I know this is not going to be an award winner.

GB

WIP Sundowners F-14A

Here's a shot of the cockpit tub from my latest model. It is a 1/48 Revell-Monogram F-14A Tomcat that I am going to finish as the Sundowner's Miss Molly using Zotz decals. I am building this one pretty well straight out of the box for a group build on Aeroscale. I can see that the kit is not perfect even from my own limited research into the F-14 but there is a lot of potential. I also have the F-14D version of this kit so some of the lessons learned here will be applied there. Back to this kit one lesson learned is that Model Master spray cans suck. I found the spray too coarse, it goes on too think and feels tacky. I just finished coating the model tonight and I'm not happy. I'm hoping once the weathering, detailing and decals are done with a matte spray to finish off that things will be different.