MASTER 1:48 F-14A early version, nose tip and angle-of-attack probe is a set of turned metal parts that replaces the coarsely molded plastic nose tip and the fragile probe on a model of an early production Tomcat. It is not an aircraft model; the kit is not included in the package.
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A detail accessory from the Polish manufacturer MASTER, which specializes in turned metal parts for plastic models. The set holds the nose tip and the angle-of-attack probe for F-14A Tomcat models in 1:48 scale in the early version. The manufacturer states that the tip is turned from aluminum and the angle-of-attack probe from brass. It is not an aircraft kit; these are replacement parts that you glue into a model of your own.
A plastic tip and probe out of a mold can never be thin enough: an injection mold needs draft, so the part comes out thicker than it should be, often warped, and it breaks off easily when the surrounding area is sanded. A turned metal part, by contrast, has a genuinely thin profile, a straight axis and strength: it survives handling of the model and looks like real metal, not like a thickened plastic dummy. The angle-of-attack probe is a sensor measuring the angle at which the wing meets the airflow; on the real aircraft it is an unobtrusive little sensor on the side of the nose, and it is exactly this kind of detail that decides the credibility of a model.
The Grumman F-14 Tomcat was an American carrier fighter with a swing wing: the wings swept automatically in flight according to speed, from fully forward for takeoff and carrier landing to swept back in supersonic flight. The early F-14A production batches differed from the later ones precisely in the arrangement of the nose: they had a pointed tip at the end of the radome, whereas later machines carried different equipment in that place. It is this early state that the set reproduces.
For modelers who build the F-14A in 1:48 scale and want a precise, sharp and durable nose instead of a thick plastic part. The set suits early Tomcat versions best; on some kits a small adjustment of the seat may be needed.
It is not an aircraft model. The kit, glue and paints are not included in the package.
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