Vintage Night Boomer shell, replacement panels, replacement tailfins, 3d printed replacement thrusters, replacement canopy, Silent Strike stickers, Cobrastickers Grim Reapers custom stickers, uni Posca white pen

I'm sure other people tire of how obsessed I am with the F-14 Tomcat, but after so many variants, there's still some things I wanted to explore!

Once I discovered there were real F-14s painted in an all-black scheme, it got me thinking what else I could do with an all-black Skystriker. The Grim Reapers insignias remain some of the coolest ones I have used on my various other projects, so I thought I would marry them up with a black Skystriker.

I'd already used both the Silent Strike and convention Night Boomer in the past, and I thought it was time to attempt a vintage Night Boomer. Unfortunately, they are pretty rare and expensive. I finally acquired a junker at a low price, retaining that distinctive wing color and the smaller red tip on the nose of the jet, but had to replace the tailfins and panels (which had to be custom painted) and the canopy.

This was finished with the white panel lining and the Grim Reapers stickers, especially the distinctive shark mouth ones for the front of the jet, and there you had it, an intimidating black and red Skystriker to join the rest of my Grim Reapers squadron.