Or modelling during the summer. Anyhow, the Tomcat builds have continued, this time with a VF-14 Tophatters F-14 of the USS John F Kennedy when it visited Dublin in 1996.
I remember this - my parents were lucky enough to get out to the ship while I remembering seeing some of the carrier air wing at Dublin airport - I do have photos from that day but they've got lost in the almost 20 years since then..
(Photo used with permission from Jonathan McDonnell)
Kit selection was Airfix's trusty old F-14A, in the re-boxed edition with these very decals.
It's not a state of the art kit by any stretch, but thought it would be fun to build it, maybe add some detail to it, maybe re-scribe some of the panel lines (that would be a first)
I've already added some strip detail to the main u/c bays. As for the nose wheel bay, less said, the better!
Fast forward through the late Summer, Autumn and into the depths of Winter and she currently looks like this...You can read the full build log here and more about the oldest active squadron in the US Navy, VF-14
And finally, the Sea Harrier from my last post won a Bronze at the 2014 IPMS Ireland show - you can see more of the entries at this link. Was really chuffed with that and another vote for naval airpower!
Dermot
