With the lockdown keeping us all confined to our homes giving us way too much spare time I decided to release the instructions of the Tomcat I built a couple of years ago. At nearly 4000 pieces and with a myriad of functions it is a build that will keep you occupied for quite some time I hope. You can buy the instructions in my webshop. When you have two sets of 42066 you’ll have about half of the pieces needed to build this model.
I wrote a longer article on all the functions here, but here is a short summary of the functionality:
- Motorized landing gear
- Motorized landing gear bay doors
- Motorized Gatling gun
- Motorized onboard pneumatic pump
- Motorized swing wings
- Motorized cockpit canopy
- Pneumatic arrester hook
- Pneumatic air brakes in the wing and on the fuselage
- Pneumatic leading edge slats
- Pneumatic intake bleed doors
- Pneumatic delta wings
- Pneumatic switch to choose between the inboard pneumatic pump and the of board manual pneumatic pump
- Manual joystick that is connected to the control surfaces
- Differentially operating elevons
- Both rudders
- Manual ejection system. This will eject the canopy and the two chairs
Stay home, stay safe.
Thank you for releasing the instructions it’s amazing design with all the functions
Kind regards dean
Thank you very much Jeroen! A dream
come true to build this work of art. Take care! Willem