**** DONE: GB-61 1/144 F-14 Tomcat - Carrier and Maritime Aircraft

[SaparotRob]

.....This is the left showing the same link from ahead. I can't figure out how that retracts.

I was looking at it for a while too. I just noticed your comment.

 

[Crimea_River]

I gotta think that link detaches and retracts into the fuselage before the main legs start to retract. I assume it's there to help resist side loads. Here's a screen grab:

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[PlasticHero]

That's the only way I could see the wheel assembly moving straight forward but I have NEVER heard of a landing gear that has a part that connects and disconnects as the gears cycle up and down. I'd like to have Ward Carroll from youtube explain this. Any navy vets here that know someone who knows?

 

[SaparotRob]

That's the only way I could see the wheel assembly moving straight forward but I have NEVER heard of a landing gear that has a part that connects and disconnects as the gears cycle up and down. I'd like to have Ward Carroll from youtube explain this. Any navy vets here that know someone who knows?

If they told you, they'd have to kill you.

 

[A4K]

'You can't handle the truth!'

 

[PlasticHero]

This was a more ambitious build then I imagined. It's a plane I'm not that familiar with and the night I picked the decal sheet, I didn't bother to look at my notes. The detail on the main parts is good for the size and the fit is pretty good. Typical 2000's tech. The down side is thin parts are not thin while at the same time, the missiles have almost no glueing surface. I'm sure by GB64 some of them will fall off. Did this put me off hobbit scale? No, look for another small jet in GB65.

Adding this image because I finally found this Tomcat sticker that I've had for about 40 years.

 

[A4K]

Love it Alan, well done mate.

 

[SaparotRob]

Next GB. Airplanes and their trucks.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Vic Balshaw]

What a beauty!

 

[Ralph Haus]

1:144...Hmm! And you still have your wits? Very nice, and needless to say, impressed as well.

 

[rochie]

amazing for such a tiny scale, well done.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work!