Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

After a week of staying at home suffering from parotitis, I will be going back to the office tomorrownext week on the verge of new challenges: a training session, a new project, and some leaving colleagues. Not a pretty picture, but life’s like that.

Anyway, while I was at home I thought I would be able to blog but, instead of writing, a different “muse” bit me and this is what I spent my time on:

This is the replica cockpit of an F-14A Tomcat, in 1:48 scale.

If you’re not familiar with what a Tomcat is, it’s the fighter prominently featured on Tom Cruise’s 1986 hit, Top Gun.

Hopefully the plane takes a more recognizable shape over the next few weeks. It’s a painstaking process and even after all this years I’m still learning a new thing or two about it.

It’s been two years since I’ve built any scale model, and the last plane that I completed was done back in 2005, and I’m happy over what I was able to start.

Hope that I finish it in time for our November IPMS Philippines National Competition.