Nice model!
I used to have one like it, but I gave it to my Squadron commander as a going away gift
If i still had it though i would totally re-paint it in the "Zipang" Aces <Pack 6> paint scheme

I thought it was real too. o:

Very nice model. :3

Hey, one sexy bad-assed kitty! I miss that plane, a shame that they did put so many of them down that were still perfectly working.

If this is a Revell scale kit, I once had the same! I never was too much of a model builder, but always a Tomcat enthusiast so I had to buy it when I saw it. Some things did not work the way I planned with building it, and I had a hard time applying these water-based stickers, but I loved the scale model nevertheless :)

Yep, it's a Revell alright, or more accurately Revell/Monogram. Used a combination of after-market and kit-supplied decals (the kit decals were still in good shape, despite the kit's age), and some after-market parts such as the external fuel tanks and chin pod. I used to watch Top Gun and The Final Countdown constantly as a kid, so I pretty much grew up with the Tomcat. I even have a Northrop F-5 painted up as a MiG-28.

Yeah, same here! Plus that TV show "Supercarrier", remember that one?
I still wear old Navy style dog tags nowadays. Wanted those as a kid, and wrote letters to god-knows-who in search of some tags - including the U.S. embassy and army bases. 6-7 years later, while not thinking of it anymore, some U.S. base wrote back, embossed a pair of tags for me, and I wear them as some sort of lucky charm to remind me what you can do if you just spend enough time on it