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Stunning work!

Nice work! Burner cans look good. The black stripes in the nozzle need a little white dry brushed down the center line. My references show this effect.

My wife used to ask why all your models are dirty. Great paint job dude!

That stippled grime layer is something else. It looks like the filth I'd see on actual F-14Ds at my local airshow through their retirement from the naval arsenal.

The stippling saves a lot of spraying with different tones through the Uschi van Der Rosten splatter template, with a thin overlay of neat base tone gray.

Does the ink level itself out to not leave brush texture?

Stippled white ink underlay. I can't unlearn this.

A lot of these public domain tracks sounded like music from Hotline Miami 1 and 2.

This video needed "View to a Kill" as BGM.

You really replicated that rat's nest of pneumatic tubes and electrical cabling in those gear bays.

"Eyes Without A Face" would've been clutch, too.

This video needed "Beverly Hills Cop" by Herbie Hancock in the background.

80s digital drum machine...

Great Master's Thesis, Maestro. I probably would've finished college if scale modeling were a Bachelors of Science and not an art degree.

Montage, you've gotta have an 80's montaaaaage!

Your AI narrator sounds like the late, great Tony Jay. RIP, Megabyte, Lieutenant from Fallout 1, and Virgil the sentient chicken from Mighty Max...

Push it to the limit...

Take on me, take me oooooon...

Nice work. It's a bit of a shame you used an F-14D for it and not an A version, as they were used in the movie. Also, the A2G loadout wasn't introduced on the Tomcat until decades later.

Maverick Mitchell in Operation Iraqi Freedom? That's an F-14B Bombcat.

Archer: DAAAANGER ZOOOONE!

Can we agree those curved dirt lines at the wing roots were a disaster.

Remarkable!

Outstanding build 👍

The narration made the video so much more informative! Thanks, and what a spectacular endeavor, the results are stunning! Incredible talents!

Exceptional weathering skills!!

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how did you get Jeremy Irons to narate your video, or are you Jeremy Irons ? very good job on that model.

Nice weathering work

Excellent Video. I am actually going to build an old 1/48 Revell / Monogram F14 A for a new build and try a few of your tricks to make it a better model (because it's such a poor kit...😏). BTW, get ready for all the comments from people who are going to say "Hey ! There was no F14 "D" model in Topgun !" Really nice build !!!

How'd you get David Attenborough to narrate? 😂 The voice over made it entertaining, but seriously, it's good to describe the processes used, but not talk the whole time!

Great weathering ideas! I have the Trumpy 1/48 whole boat to do, with Pontos set, so this is good inspiration for topside! 👍

What was the grey you used for the upper Hull after the preshading and chipping fluid?

Keep up the good work

Hello how long should you wait before applying the activator. LG

Audio is great. I am truly in awe of your skills!

12:25 Is my favorite part of the video.

Wow just wow, beautiful model, superb narration, really informative and excellent music choice, I've just started a 1/72 gato class and this video has give n me more information than the last 20 i have watched put together, please keep the format for the rest of your video's. SUBSCRIBED 👍

David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Sunday, 23 June, 2024). Updated I take delight in watching your video build of the Border Model 1:35th-scale plastic model kit of the conning tower and a 66-cm segment of the hull of a Deutsche Krieksmarine Typ VIIc Unterseeboot (U-Boat). Had I the resources, I would do similarly, except that I would display as it succumbs to the fearsome blast of a pair of 160-kg U.S. Navy air-dropped depth charges. These would descend from the forward bomb bay of the Hong Kong Models 1:32nd-scale kit of Consolidated’s B-24D Liberator USAAF Heavy Bomber, which I would convert to a replica of a Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator U.S. Navy Maritime Convoy Patrol Bomber, positioned airborne, its four propellers spinning, the aeroplane painted in the USN tri-colour camouflage scheme of gloss dark sea blue on the upper wings, flat dark sea blue on the upper fuselage, intermediate blue on the vertical surfaces, and gloss white on the ventral surfaces; it might have some minor alterations in electrical equipment here and there, as well. I also would endeavour to extend the submarine’s submerged hull sufficiently enough to equal the wingspan of the formidable bomber: 33.528 metres, which in 1:32nd-scale would be 104.775 cm, and in 1:35th-scale 95.794 cm. (As I am a word nerd, though NOT a maths whiz, I cannot infer which would have a more realistic appearance.) I would include the deck figures, adding a second set posed in recoil from the explosion washing away some of them. If you would like, you could use my idea herein for a future project. I suggest an aircraft because I doubt if a destroyer escort or similar in 1:35th-scale would be affordable or physically practical; the full hull of this Typ VIIc U-Boat would be nearly two metres in length! Revell Germany makes this submarine in 1:144th-scale e (05100). The company had produced a U.S. Navy Fletcher-class destroyer (over 114.6 metres in the actual), in this scale a significant 79.58 cm (05150)! The sub, 67.056 metres in the actual, and 46.567 cm in 1:144th-scale. The pair in combination would make for a dramatic display. I would create displays of aircraft, ships, vehicles, figures, buildings, etc., in different scales for an immensely intriguing forced perspective diorama. A half metre or so behind that USN destroyer and DKM U-boat combination-one would have to look at the completed models to evaluate the actual placement-one could place Liberty ship replicas and models of their escorts in 1:700th-, 1:500th-, 1:350th-, 1:200th-, and other scales, the larger reproductions to the fore. Matchbox made a 1:72nd-scale kit of a Flower-class Corvette (PK-901) that one could set in the fore of the USN destroyer, itself contesting a Revell Germany model in the same proportion of a DKM Typ VIIc “Wolf Pack” U-Boat (05015). The following is my reply to your recent response to an earlier comment of mine: Oh, some certainly do earn significant incomes with 1) model-making, dioramas, figurines, buildings (some of historical interest, others of prospective designs for architects and their clients), most scratch-building in very large scales replicas of ships, aircraft, etc., on the staff of historical museums; 2) European miniatures that professional artisans long have crafted to astounding precision and fidelity; these miniaturists live and work at the beating heart of a centuries-old tradition in France, Italy, Germany, etc., extending back into the High Middle Ages; 3) motion picture productions of highly intricate settings, three-dimensional backdrops, etc. If you have The Lord of the Rings trilogy Extended Edition Blu-ray set, some of the discs present these very processes video recorded in progress; the staff had built some “miniatures” that were so ornate or intricate, so huge, that one senior designer-builder, Mary MacLachlan (if I recall correctly that spelling), called two statues fashioned of ceramic towering an actual seven feet “bigatures”! Hogwarts Castle is over fifteen metres across, much of it lit internally. Thank you also for appreciating my brainstorming. I have lots of ideas, though no means to implement them. Had I great wealth, I would plan them, hiring talented modellers to execute the projects. Shortly after the Second World War one foggy morning, a North American Aviation B-25 Mitchell USAAF Medium Bomber crashed into an upper storey of the Empire State Building. To reproduce that with a Hong Kong Models 1:32nd-scale kit would require a replica of the iconic edifice over 14 metres tall!

A little tip for everyone for realism... the top cover for the instruments pod and the cockpit surfaces in general is YELLOW when the black paint is worn through! The same goes for the air frame. This is because the aircraft is coated with a YELLOW or Light BLUE-GREEN protective surface treatment for the aluminum. You seldom have wear so deep it gets through the paint and the surface treatment. Even if you did, these is almost no chance there is zero yellow (or blue-green) and all silver in the chipping and wear. This is true even for very heavily used and worn down F-16As going in for their F-16V (aka Block 20 AM) overhaul at AIDC Taiwan. Don't take my word for it. Take a look at photos or ask anyone on the flight line.

Thats a Masterpiece 🫡

You did a fantastic job !!! And the chips were very realistic...

Absolutely the best Viper i've ever seen , except for the chipping ! Sorry....Was in Afghanistan in summer with several Dutch Vipers , they were dirty and greasy but no chips....

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Awesome weathering!

Impressive!

Got a question, what are you using for painting small parts? Is see you stick something like clay on it?

If he go any further, this thing will fly.