AIR: 1/48 Monogram F-14A Pod Question

[Scott Froese]

In the subject kit, there are two parts (104 & 105) that make some sort of
pod and some additional tail feathers What is the pod for and what version
are these parts for?

Also, what 1/48 F-14A kits come with drop tanks?

(FWIW, I want to use Superscale sheet 48-362 to build the CAG Bird "Miss
Molly" from VF-111 and it has some nifty little shark mouths for the drop
tanks.)

Thanks in advance
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Scott Froese
sfr...@one.net

[José Herculano]

> In the subject kit, there are two parts (104 & 105) that make some sort
of
> pod and some additional tail feathers What is the pod for and what
version
> are these parts for?

Once bought that kit (high-tech), but it gave me such trouble that I dumped
it.
Don't remember much about it, but the pod can be only one of two things:

If it is long, has windows and fits under the rear fuselage directly, it is
the
TARPS tactical reconnaissance pod; if it is short, rounded, and fits on one
of the rear AIM-54 carrier, it is a pilot's travel pod.

Additional tailfeathers usually means possible variation for GE-engined
variants, that is F-14B (former A+) or D.

> Also, what 1/48 F-14A kits come with drop tanks?

The Hasegawa has'em; believe the Minicraft also does.

> (FWIW, I want to use Superscale sheet 48-362 to build the CAG Bird "Miss
> Molly" from VF-111 and it has some nifty little shark mouths for the drop
> tanks.)

Go Hasegawa. You'll have to buy the missiles separately, though. Give me
the
BuNo of that Miss Molly bird, and I'll tell you if you can mount the TARPS
pod
on it. Not all As or Bs are TARPS compatible.

--
José Herculano

[Dave Williams]

Scott Froese wrote:
>
> In the subject kit, there are two parts (104 & 105) that make some sort of
> pod and some additional tail feathers What is the pod for and what version
> are these parts for?
>

> Also, what 1/48 F-14A kits come with drop tanks?
>

> (FWIW, I want to use Superscale sheet 48-362 to build the CAG Bird "Miss
> Molly" from VF-111 and it has some nifty little shark mouths for the drop
> tanks.)
>

> Thanks in advance
> --
> Scott Froese
> sfr...@one.net

Are you sure you aren't talking about the Revell F-14D kit which is just
a modified ex-Monogram F-14A? In the -D kit, parts 104 and 105 are the
dual sensor pod which contains a television set (TCS) and an IR
tracker. The double barrel pod is only applicable to the -D model.

Also, the Hasegawa, Fujimi, and maybe Minicraft 1/48 F-14s come with the
external tanks.

Cheers.

Dave

[John Bergsing]

It's the TARPS recon pod.
--
There are three kinds of people in this world. Those who can count and
those who can't! ;-)

[John Bergsing]

I don't think that this kit comes with a travel pod. It has to be the
TARPS pod.

John