HOW MUCH WOULD YOU PAY FOR A BOMBCAT?

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 8:52 pm

thatf14guy wrote:after finishing one bomb i can say that vacuum form sucks! cutting out these parts takes time and patients, let alone doing more. i may do alot more custom repaints to sell on ebay than do bombcats. bombcats will take alot of time, hours, patients, costs. so i will only do them for ebay at a rate of one a month or as i please. after today i most say the price may go up even more, so if you want one i hate to say you will pay the price. as for the quality of these bombs i will say i think there okay, i think the gbu i done today looks very toyish. i plan on doing other bombs however and will post pics in the near future. will post more pics of the trial bomb soon. i may also try doing a custom service for forum members in the future, but i am a lone man right now, or to say a one man company and i'm yet to produce a tomcat, but soon!

Doing custom work aint easy.

It takes time and money with the chances of getting no return for your trouble.

It took me 3 weeks to make my Sdkfz 222 prototype.

Welcome to my world

thatf14guy · Post by **thatf14guy** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:12 am

eeh, actually this is the second time i ever used vacuum form, the first time i wound up cutting the tip of my finger almost all the way off. but i figured i give it another try, i'm thinking about using mk-82s instead. but we will see.

firefighterpilot1 · Post by **firefighterpilot1** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:58 pm

Like it has been mentioned, all you would need is to do is make bomb racks, typical bombs Tomcats would carry and a flir pod and there you go: F-14A Bombcat. If the mould was of an early A model Tomcat it wouldn't work, but this is of a late model A Tomcat and could be easily and accurately converted into a Bombcat. Not a $300+ dollar conversion, that's for sure!

thatf14guy · Post by **thatf14guy** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:44 am

no comment

thatf14guy · Post by **thatf14guy** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:58 am

Should be seeing a finished model next week. ordered seatbelt material and buckles, decals, bombs and the most important a plane. plan on going all out on this one.

Black Lion VF-213 · Post by **Black Lion VF-213** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:46 pm

I don't think firefighterpilot was trying to imply that making bombs or any kind of armament was easy in the literal sense. I'm sure that for anyone with even a remote ability in making models would say that scratchbuilding is the most difficult part of making a model apart from a manufacturer's kit. What I think he meant to say is that for making a "Bombcat" the beauty (or ease) lies in the fact that the only work to be done is making the armament and not any modifications to the F-14 itself since JSI made a "late A" with all the correct exterior features that were only found on "A" models used for the bomb/strike mission.
I'm sure all the JSI F-14 owners here would love to see more armament choices for their big Cats.

thatf14guy · Post by **thatf14guy** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:09 pm

perhaps, but yes i hope all this works out. but i don't think it will come at a low cost specially when i start doing custom schemes that are not avalible on the 1/18 market.

thatf14guy · Post by **thatf14guy** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:20 am

i'll be getting my tomcat tomorrow, i plan on masking it off tomorrow, and probably do the mk-82s. probably paint the plane thursday and post pics friday. i've decided to work up the scale so my next plane will be vf-1, not sure which year yet though, i'm wanting to do the 1991 uss ranger version but a set of decals for that version can cost upwards of $400, that and tko211 is doing the 1975 version for me as a personnal aircraft. but we'll see. we'll see which gets more interest. but i will say not all my repaints will be bombcats, but will look alot better than jsi's spotcat. time will only tell on how far i go with this, but i plan on doing every tomcat squadron, so if you got a favorite, it will be coming!

fightin · Post by **fightin** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:34 am

thatf14guy wrote:i'll be getting my tomcat tomorrow, i plan on masking it off tomorrow, and probably do the mk-82s. probably paint the plane thursday and post pics friday. i've decided to work up the scale so my next plane will be vf-1, not sure which year yet though, i'm wanting to do the 1991 uss ranger version but a set of decals for that version can cost upwards of $400, that and tko211 is doing the 1975 version for me as a personnal aircraft. but we'll see. we'll see which gets more interest. but i will say not all my repaints will be bombcats, but will look alot better than jsi's spotcat. time will only tell on how far i go with this, but i plan on doing every tomcat squadron, so if you got a favorite, it will be coming!

Alright, sounds interesting. Keep us posted!

thatf14guy · Post by **thatf14guy** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:37 am

I SURE WILL!

wolf8564 · Post by **wolf8564** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:27 am

Actually I am working on turning My Tomcat into a VF-103 "BombCat"
I will be arming it with a couple of 2000lb LGB's and the Flir pod. I am working on the F110GE-400 afterburner cans as I write this. I will Post some pics when I get a little further along.

firefighterpilot1 · Post by **firefighterpilot1** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:36 am

Now THAT I would be very interested in. Would love to see how the GE-F110's turn out!

thatf14guy · Post by **thatf14guy** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:56 pm

i've decided not to do a bombcat, but check out my latest project getting some rays!

thatf14guy · Post by **thatf14guy** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:57 pm

i've got more pics, but photobucket is being retarded!

thatf14guy · Post by **thatf14guy** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:27 pm

two more pics:

fightin · Post by **fightin** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:27 am

a nude cat!

thatf14guy · Post by **thatf14guy** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:43 am

working on it, should get decals next week.

MiG29K · Post by **MiG29K** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:17 pm

I'm going to have to borrow the Bombs from the Hornet and then that would leave the General Electric Cans and the FLIR POD left to do...

thatf14guy · Post by **thatf14guy** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:46 am

did you make those from scratch, if not where ya get them at?

fightin · Post by **fightin** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:46 am

very nice work! they do look good!

Black_Dragon_One · Post by **Black_Dragon_One** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:05 pm

MiG29K wrote:I'm going to have to borrow the Bombs from the Hornet and then that would leave the General Electric Cans and the FLIR POD left to do...

I always love your work

i would have thought by now you go into the production of these but.. i guest i have to wait for jsi

i love the harpoon

thatf14guy · Post by **thatf14guy** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:55 pm

this plane looks wicked cool, i gave it a bit of my attitude will post pics tomorrow. to bad it don't have the correct engines, but it still looks awesome!

thatf14guy · Post by **thatf14guy** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:10 pm

all i need now is the decals

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wolf8564 · Post by **wolf8564** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:02 pm

I am in the process of turning my F-14 A into a either VF-103 B or a Total Repaint D model. So far I have the latirn pod, the B model cans, JDAMs and I am working on the Chin Mount Tacan cameras. I just dred the total repaint
to make it the D model "Pukin Dogs"!

MiG29K · Post by **MiG29K** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:02 pm

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