The black Tomcat parked on a walnut desk beside a keyboard and a white mug, wings spread, standing on its wheels

F-14D Tomcat

A desk-sized Tomcat that stands on its own landing gear.

Parked, wings out.

15.4 inches of Tomcat, posed the way a carrier jet waits on deck: wings spread wide, its weight on its own wheels.

Sixteen parts.

Seen apart, every colour is a separate piece in its own plastic. Nothing on it is painted.

The cockpit is three.

A gold-tinted canopy, the dark anti-glare panel ahead of it and the slate spine panel behind it, each its own part.

Red in front, orange behind.

Red faces close the two intakes. Two orange afterburner nozzles finish the engines at the tail.

Twin tails, red caps.

Both vertical tails wear a red tip of their own, the first thing that catches the light from across a room.

Down on its gear.

A red nose leg with twin wheels and two main legs. The jet settles onto its own landing gear, no stand under it.

Seen from above.

15.3 inches from wingtip to wingtip and 15.4 from nose to tail: plan for a square of desk.

Seven kinds of part, one jet.

Drawn from the side, to scale. The airframe is nearly all of it; the parts that give it colour are small, and some are smaller than a fingertip.

Up close

Small parts, read from across the room.

Head-on at deck level: the long wings, the two red intake faces, the red nose leg and the gold canopy between the tails
Head-on, it is all wing: 15.3 inches of it, sitting low on a red nose leg.
Close on the cockpit: the gold-tinted canopy between the black anti-glare panel and the intake, a red intake face below
The canopy is its own tinted part, so its edge is a real seam, not a painted line.
From above and behind: the twin tails with red tips and the two orange nozzles below them
Red tail caps and orange nozzles: the colour sits where a deck crew would look first.
Low behind the jet: two orange afterburner nozzles, open at the back, under the black tails

At 15.4 × 15.3 × 4.6 in and 17.6 oz, it needs a square of desk about as wide as its wingspan, and sits steady on a desk, a deep shelf or a bookcase top. It is a display piece: the wings are set in the spread pose and stay there.

No stand. It parks.

Plenty of model jets sit on a post. This one stands the way the real one waits on a carrier deck: on a tricycle of landing gear, a nose leg up front and two main legs under the intakes.

The three wheel sets meet the desk on one plane, so it sits level without a shim. The mains are 3.2 in apart, and the nose wheels sit 3.8 in ahead of them.

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Low at desk level from the front: the red nose leg with its twin wheels and the two main wheels under the intakes
Low and close: the twin nose wheels on the red leg, the mains behind them.

F-14D Tomcat

Sixteen parts, seven kinds, one jet.

1
airframe: fuselage, wings and twin tails
3
cockpit parts: canopy, anti-glare and spine panels
2
intake faces
2
afterburner nozzles
2
tail tips
3
landing gear legs
3
wheel sets: twin nose wheel, two mains
Length
15.4 in
Wingspan
15.3 in
Height
4.6 in
Weight
17.6 oz
Parts
16, each in its own colour
Material
PLA
Stands on
Its own tricycle landing gear
Straight down on the jet: swept wings spread, the gold canopy on the spine, two orange nozzles at the tail

Good to know

Does it need batteries or power?
No. It has no motor, lights or electronics. It is a display model and needs nothing but a flat spot.
Does anything move?
No. The wings are set in the spread display pose and the gear is fixed down, so it always looks parked and ready.
What is it made of?
PLA. Each colour is a separate part made in that colour of plastic, so no colour is painted on.
How much room does it take?
15.4 in long, 15.3 in across the wings and 4.6 in tall, at 17.6 oz. A desk corner or a deep shelf holds it.
Does it need a stand?
No. It stands on its own nose leg and two main legs, all three wheel sets on the same plane.