Ever seen a F-14 in 1:18 with your own eyes?

[dutik]

Hello!

 

Was at Gatow (Berlin), taking part in the annually Luftwaffe Museum/ airport festival. As always lot of people, lots of associations and clubs. Firefighters, army paramedics, Berlin Airlift, police department, paras of different nations, veteran associations, Legion 501 (Star Wars) and many more. Plus the exhibition of IPMS Germany.

 

Some of the large scale models at the modelling exhibition:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Braille scale but noteworthy:

 

 

DKM Gneisenau battlecruiser aft turret with prewar catapult.

 

Regards

- dutik

[dutik]

Another nice braille scale model. Zeppelin-Staaken by Roden:

 

 

 

 

More large scale:

 

 

 

 

Airfix 1/24:

 

 

The new ICM kit:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards

- dutik

[dutik]

True scale:

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, this one was not airworthy

 

Regards

- dutik

[dutik]

And now for something completly different:

 

 

 

 

1:18 scale kit from the nineties, comparable to 21st Century Toys. Looooong OOP. Price for a kit - if you can locate one - around 2.000 USD. Large kit, indeed.

 

The builder ist member of LSP forum, but has some trouble hosting pics. If we are lucky he is able to mail me a number of his own photos to share them here.

Can't wait

 

Regards

- dutik

[Panzerwomble]

30 minutes ago, dutik said:

And now for something completly different:

 

 

 

 

1:18 scale kit from the nineties, comparable to 21st Century Toys. Looooong OOP. Price for a kit - if you can locate one - around 2.000 USD. Large kit, indeed.

 

The builder ist member of LSP forum, but has some trouble hosting pics. If we are lucky he is able to mail me a number of his own photos to share them here.

Can't wait

 

Regards

- dutik

 

 

That Tomcat will get Easixpedro going for sure , stand by for new scratch build thread ! 

[Ossington 1]

I've got one of those in the loft. Not seen it for a while now, what with all the other kits. Got a 1/18th F-16 in there too, come to think of it.

[Rob Colvin]

i would bet hobby boss has the kit......They released the 190s, F-86, and UH1 as a unpainted kits.......

Edited September 15, 2022 by Rob Colvin

[Ossington 1]

I have all the above and waiting for the others, hopefully. Here is the only kit I have visible: the 1/18th F-18. Oh, and a piece of ID Models 1/32nd vacform F-100 bottom R.

 

https://ibb.co/pnvPKnW

[Oldbaldguy]

Didn’t somebody do an F-104 in 1:18 as well?  And are the Soviet era jets in the background of some of the 1:1 photos above airworthy or static displays?

[dutik]

42 minutes ago, Oldbaldguy said:

Didn’t somebody do an F-104 in 1:18 as well?  And are the Soviet era jets in the background of some of the 1:1 photos above airworthy or static displays?

 

Static display only. this is the museum of the German Luftwaffe, featuring collections from both World wars as well as the Cold war, NVA and Bundeswehr.

Sour news: Nowadays it has to be an "anti war" exhibition only, reducing the number of exponats from the vast collection as well as the visibility of the aircrafts. Some of them are partially clad into striped "KZ-cloth" to force this aspect of history into front. Not my cup of tea. But the open air collection is nice, also showing some ground equipment like antiair and radars. Latest achievement: a railway car of the US transportation command. Not bad for an air force museum  

 

Well, if you want to see the stuff omitted by the official Luftwaffen museum you have to go to rechlin. Former proving ground of the Luftwaffe WW2, later russian AF place. We have a topic about Rechlin here, showing my photos from some visits in Rechlin. Heinkel 162, Bf-109F, lots of 1:1 replicas, even a Do-335 B-2 with the long wing guns and a Gotha jet project made into a 1:1 model

 

Regards

- dutik

Edited September 6, 2022 by dutik

[Troy Molitor]

Thanks for posting these pictures Dutik.  I need to visit Rechlin some day.  

[dutik]

43 minutes ago, Troy Molitor said:

Thanks for posting these pictures Dutik.  I need to visit Rechlin some day.  

 

Drop me a note to meet you then!

 

Regards

- dutik

[A-10LOADER]

I have three of these 1/18th scale Tomcats. They were first sold in 2010, VF-84 F-14A and 2011, VF-154 F-14A. I converted my VF-84 "spotcat" ( very poorly finished ) into a VF-103 F-14B. The factory finish on the VF-154 was much better so, I left her alone. My third one, which is another VF-84 "spotcat", will eventually become a VF-2 F-14D.

Steve

"TOMCATS FOREVER, BABY...!"

 

 

[mydesign]

On 9/6/2022 at 1:26 PM, Ossington 1 said:

I have all the above and waiting for the others, hopefully. Here is the only kit I have visible: the 1/18th F-18. Oh, and a piece of ID Models 1/32nd vacform F-100 bottom R.

 

https://ibb.co/pnvPKnW

Hi... the old days!

You can see how I made actually the ID 1/32 F-100 more than 40 years ago at my webpage https://aircraftinplastic.com/models/f100/f100.htm here...