Just visited the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi, TX, yesterday (Aug 4, 2024), and the F-14 Tomcat is still on the flight deck of the ship and still looks good. It was awesome to be able to touch it and take excellent pics of it.

$200.⁰⁰ into $2000.⁰⁰?

Looks great, but next time use Isopropanol to Clean instead of Windows cleaner . IT removes all the skin oils without leaving any residue !!

David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA What paint colour was the interior of a Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress USAAF Heavy Bomber? Please and thank you.

David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA Mr. Tinder (so I infer from your video’s title), I just saw a build presentation much as yours from “Model Cat Boris” (channel), albeit his kit being a new mold from Revell AG/GmbH; this is nothing like the Revell (USA) kit of this esteemed warbird as I recall from my youth!); one must see it to believe it! Well, I can say much the same about the Airfix kit you bring to us in your visual demonstration. Your exquisitely wondrous talents in imparting to a model of relatively small scale such multifarious examples of verisimilitude and fidelity, especially your deftness of painting as to astound all, merit the highest commendation. Additionally, I watched Gary’s Stuff” (channel) for his particular approach in building this Airfix assembly model of the Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress USAAF Heavy Bomber in this scale. His style, a quiet, straightforward manner, whilst distinct to some degree from yours, still underscores your keen-minded passion for excellence with his. As a boy, I had taken great delight in the astounding eclecticism and variety of the firm’s kits, though I had noted their crudeness of fine detail; I had a sense that this was a function of the state of the art, though I knew nothing of casting molds, and the demanding skill to design, engineer, and build them. I recall with immense satisfaction having built models in this scale of the Avro Lancaster RAF Mk I Heavy Bomber, recognised for its cavernous bomb bay, the Handley-Page Halifax RAF Heavy Bomber, a steady performer, Short’s Stirling RAF Heavy Bomber (I greatly enjoyed the tow tractor with its train of laden bomb trolleys; they are why I had built the long aeroplane aground, displaying it undergoing servicing prior to nocturnal, secret sortie somewhere over Nazi-held Europe), de Havilland’s Mosquito Light Bomber, renowned as “the wooden wonder” racing across Germany’s skies regardless of the hour, and Vickers’s Wellington RAF Medium Bomber, known for its geodesic construction (I cannot recall the designation mark number of the latter four); I built each of the four in flight, their stations within fully manned, as long has been, and still is, my preference (well, of a sort: I lacked both the resources and the skill to motorise the propellers, toward realistically displaying them in such a manner). Please tell us more of your interests, and your aspirations in this context you yet wish to attain. I have in mind numerous ideas for model building, and dramatising through dioramas, on the land, or on the seas, or in the air above, events they would depict, though I lack the means to actualise them. I come to KZbin to watch videos, and smile in wistful enjoyment; this is my way to have a measure of enjoyment and fun, if only wistfully vicarious. You and the others for a time give me merriment and satisfaction midst difficult circumstances, for which I thank you all.

This is amazing!

Eres un maestro amigo gracias x compartir tus técnicas , eres el mejor , soy fan de star wars y ver proyectos así me anima a seguir con los mío , saludos desde Venezuela me llamo kelvis Valbuena 👍

Very nicely done! One slight nit however - there shouldn’t be soot streaming from the intercooler vents on the wings…. virtually everyone makes this mistake.

Excellent work!

Gonna start working on an ebike version of this!

Doesn't seem you have these anymore.

why not put an electric motor on the intake blades

Very well done. Love it.

This looks so good I want to do it myself. Do you have the plans shared anywhere?

Spectacular Modern Fighter Airplane Navy Traditional Design , Fantastic Military Air Naval Performance, Incredible Motors, Very Inteligent Missiles, Surreal Navy Sensors - F - 14 NAVY 112 Gorgeous Modern Traditional Navy Fighter Airplane, honestly.

I was at the Lexington about 8 years ago and that Tom Cat was on a lower deck being restored there behind curtains. Im glad to see it on deck now to the public.

Все сделано хорошо...но!Стволы пулеметов надо было от фирмы ,master, поставить...Очень класные...как раз комплект на Б - 17 есть у них.

I've always wondered why the real F-14's were so light grey, "almost white" and that they always represented the scale models with a darker gray shade.

Amazing

Beautyful work, with the metallic modulations. It's Wonderful.

私は、ハセガワの同型機を作りましたが、ギンギラギンのB-17も、かっこいいですよね。

incredibe build.

In the last couple of years they have repainted this jet in the tactical paint scheme colors and markings used in the movie.

I'm glad they saves this one sad they got rid of the others they were and always will be the best of the best fighter jets!!!

Amazing weathering work!

I just ordered this kit. I hope mine looks 10% as good as this!

WHY IS IT ALWAYS THE GERMANS WHO MAKE HISTORY!!!???

There is an aircraft with REAL historic relevance onboard the Lex: The F-4 Phantom, located topside, is one of the prototype test birds. The museum decided to repaint it in the absolute wrong colors for some reason (donation... I'm sure). It should be painted in the red and white Naval Test Center colors. So much for historical accuracy....

F-14s had their day, move on.

🇮🇹MALEDETTA RUGGINE! CHISSA DENTRO L AEREO! F14 PER SEMPRE!👍

Nice!... thank you 🇳🇿

I wonder if one day time comes, presumably after all Iranian ones are truly gone, that we will be restoring some Tomcats to flying order, similar to how a P-61 is being currently rebuilt at Mid-Atlantic Air Museum...

What a terrible waste

Amazing F-14 , the best of the best.

HORRIFIED!!! 😧 - - - This is NOT how to restore/preserve an aircraft for long term storage! THIS plane should be properly repainted by a NAVY crew! I bet if the Navy asked really nicely, that Paramount might even chip in the money to do the job right, just because of the aircraft's movie history. I see no Zinc-Chromate primer, the paint they described using is NOT proper... It HAS to be the right stuff to protect the airframe from the salt water intrusion. After the repaint, for extreme long term preservation, they should keep this aircraft in the hanger bay - protected from the Sun.

Jolly Rogers 201 was in the movie the Final Countdown

There wasn’t a VMF213 Black Lions. It was VF213 Black Lions. I was in that squadron as an airframe/ hydraulic tech on the F14A Tomcat. When you add a M in that acronym, you’re saying it’s a Marine squadron. Marines did not fly the Tomcat. The new Top Gun is awesome. (VF) fighter squadron. (VFA) fighter/attack squadron. (VMFA) Marine fighter/attack squadron.

This movie just breaks my heart... When i visit the US for the first time... i will make sure to visit this puppy! Glad that it still exists to this day

Oh how I miss my days in the navy and the heat from the afterburners were so brutal but I loved this aircraft!

I use the clear gloves so I don't leave oil or prints and paint most of the model parts on the model part tree.

Wooooooow fantastic beautiful 😍 ❤ ♥ 💖 💕

Got this print coming :)

Sweet

wwhere do you put decal 8 and 9

I though that all the F-14´s were destroyed to avoid black market smuggling of spare parts to Iran (who, at a time, was the only other country using then, before the islamic revolution overthrowing the USA-friendly government) ? AFAIK there weren´t even a single one avalaible, even for museums...am I wrong ?

Amazing art! Keep up the great work!

Amazing art! Keep up the great work!

The rust on the outside is just the surface issue. The F-14 was notorious for leaking, so much so that most of the electrical problems that would disable the plane were due to water leaking into the interior of the jet and shorting out the electronics. So that bird is going to have as much or more rust on the inside.

Too bad they can’t keep that plane in the hangar deck.

I've taken pictures with this jet, multiple times and had absolutely no idea that it was Maves! Mind blown!!!!