F-14 Tomcat Framing

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Here is the initial layout of the fuse formers. One of the other early Tomcat builders pulled the fuse parts into Autocad, and laser cut fuse parts. These fuse parts are now being sold by Jet Hangar Hobbies. Saved me lots of time in front of the scrollsaw.

I have the formers together now, and part of the bottom sheeting applied, plus my initial ductwork fitting. I am using stiff paper card for the ducts.

Here is my early fitting of the GX parts that form up the inlet ramps, and wing glove area.

Here is the glove rough sheeted, but not yet sanded. Notice the fuselage sheeting is starting to come together at this point too.

In order to bend ductwork out of heavy card, I made some duct forming tools out of some dowels and some of the duct punch-outs from the fuse formers.

I reinforced the ductwork in places where it still seemed weak with some strips of 3/4 oz./in. glass cloth and epoxy resin.

Most of the ductwork is in here, and I have some of the fuse sheeting complete. The duct transitions are held together with a bead of thick CA glue.

The motors and speed controllers showed up from ICARE. It took awhile to get them (about 2 months), but it was well worth the wait.

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