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A 34 year old Hasegawa F-14A Tomcat 'Black Bunny' kit in 1/72 scale. I bought this kit new when it was released in 1990. Had started it a little bit - paint, some assembly and stopped. It was put away for 24 years til last night.

The kit...



First thing I did was clean up the sprue trees and store whatever parts untouched/painted in orange containers.
Bonus... no missing parts.

Here's where I'm at as of this early afternoon....

Point Mugu NAS!!! The black bunnies

Stikpusher wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 5:32 pm Point Mugu NAS!!! The black bunnies

Funny after all these years, I never noticed the Black Bunny F-4 Phantom on the box cover til now.

Sweet! Now I'll have to try and get a set of Black Bunnies. I'm still trying to get all the Jolly Rogers aircraft.

Duke Maddog wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 1:00 pm Sweet! Now I'll have to try and get a set of Black Bunnies. I'm still trying to get all the Jolly Rogers aircraft.

It all started in 1943…

cbaltrin wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 7:10 pm
Excuse me, but I must point out that Section 72-8.1A of the Scale Modelers Regulations states that--and I quote: " A model with recessed panel lines may not be referred to as 'vintage' or 'classic'

That said... I love this. Will be watching!

Recessed panel lines or not…. It’s still a 34 year old kit. I could care about accuracies at this point and this bird will get done at some point after being on the shelf of unfinished work for 3 decades.

I would consider that a vintage kit. Can't wait to see the rest of the build.

Ended up trashing out of anger because of too many delicate flaps kept popping off. Screw it all!


I feel better now releasing all that anger by crushing in half and million pieces.