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.
