at this point you should’ve built the tamiya kit and used the top gun decals

Love the overall look and a great finish, something I have learnt recently is to apply a gloss varnish to the whole model to seal everything in before applying decals, then glossing the decals before finishing off with a matt varnish would hide the clear edges of the decals.

Thank you for showing how you did the model. I have the Box laying on my tablet together with the F/A-18E Topgun and the big F/A-18F.

Oof, JDAM and PAVEWAY on an Alpha Tomcat. Okay ;)

This is the original Monogram kit from 1981. Interestingly they give you decals for the drop tanks but there are no tanks in the kit.

Awesome Build!😎👍🏾

Nice work, you glued a nice model. 👌💯

I built that same kit, went together great, I was very impressed with it.

I like building the older Monogram kits. Monograms F-14 looks great even with raised panel lines. And it's a whole lot cheaper than the Tamiya kit.

You've done an excellent job there, with a kit that has a rep of not being the easiest to put together. Looks 👍 Great

Cool using this vid to guide me while I build mines

Buena técnica para aplicar los colores y contrastes, diferentes a los demás, excellent..

Awesome build thanks for sending me the link. I can only hope mine turns out that well. Wishing I had those nicer Tamiya parts.

Nice build man

chouette résultats ,beau travail👍👍👍

Classic Monogram kit ,... Just picked one up !

You are a master craftsman 👍🏾

One detail you forgot, In top gun, the F-14's used were F-14 A's and the exhaust nozzle were painted black rather than the silver used in later Versions of the tomcat, but other than that, it looks great.

I love the add-ons, don't get me wrong...but don't ever recall seeing them on an "A" model and never in the movie

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