COBI Top Gun F-14A Tomcat Fighter Plane - 1:48 Scale 754 Piece Building Set with Maverick and Goose Figures

Fun build with unique pieces. Cobi does it again with another classic aircraft. Great details & easy to follow instructions made this a fun build. The swept wings work great & the stand works great as well. It’s hard to get the mini figures in the cockpit & the canopy down over them. Also the overall size of the aircraft was smaller than I thought it would be. But overall I really enjoyed the build & it looks great in my collection.

Wow. OK. I might be a little biased here, but when I saw Top Gun as a kid, I fell in love with the F-14 Tomcat. I was 7 and totally into LEGO and I kept asking my parents, when would I ever get a F-14 Toy??? Sure there were the Force One Die Cast models by Ertl, but I loved LEGO and I really wanted a buildable version. To my dismay, it never materialized...Flash forward ~35 years to present day and we now have the COBI F-14 Tomcat building set. I still love building block toys, which I now share that passion with my 7 yr old son, and when I saw the F/A-18 Super Hornet from Top Gun: Maverick get released, I knew it was only a matter of time before the Tomcat came out. With the European Pound conversion to USD, Amazon's price was about inline for what COBI was charging for a direct sale, (maybe even a little bit cheaper) so I purchased it.The plastic build quality on the COBI set is very good. The plastic pieces fit very nice and crisp; their machine tooling tolerances are very high and each piece snapped together perfectly with clean edges, unlike many other 3rd party building toys, such as MegaBlok or the knock-off LEPIN kits. The COBI pieces are mint and felt great, with no waxy feeling to them. The build instructions are clear in general, however you have to pay attention as some of their slanted/curve pieces.. Very similar in size but in the instructions it's hard to tell which piece they are referring to (flat sloped or slight radius curved, for same 2x1 length, etc) The majority of this kit is a light grey plastic so pay attention to the instruction arrows that they have denoting which brick on the piece for alignment purposes. My son and I took approximately 4 hours to build this (going slow) and it was time well spent.The kit comes with 6 molded missiles, (4 not-really-AIM-54s, and 2 AIM-120s). It comes with two little cylinders for the IRST pod for the chin, and the way COBI designed the engines are pretty cool. The landing gear design seems weak, the weight of the model when on the wheels will make the rear landing gear camber out. There is a tailhook, but no signature F-14 airbrake or dual external fuel tanks, sad face emoji :(. The swept wings are neat- however they are not geared so each wing moves independently. The model also has fully movable rear horizontal flaperons, which are attached via ball joint. Vertical stabs are molded, as well as the nose cone and front fuselage, which differs a lot from what a traditional LEGO build philosophy that try to use bricks to create the shape, but in this case, it's a good mix of the shape they're aiming for and practical use of plates. My favorite part of this kit is the dual jet engine intake design with the canted angles (just like the real aircraft) and once its put together and the top plates put on, I felt the designers did an excellent job on implementation. There's no radar antenna behind the nose cone, just a 2x2 plate to attach the nose to, but the canopy opens to reveal Maverick and Goose mini-figs in all their glory.These two mini-figs are full size, unlike the half sized Mini-Fig you get of in the COBI F/A-18 Super Hornet kit. The prints on the helmets are nice and for Maverick's head you get Tom Cruise's signature smirk, and with Goose, you get Anthony Edwards' signature mustache. The cockpit doesn't have very much in detail other than one control stick for Maverick, so if you want to customize it there is a 2x1 open space in front of Maverick's mini-fig where you can gen up like an up front controller or multi-function display.. The canopy is a single piece with molded in lines, a little bit of black paint or black sticker would have been nice for detailing. Also of note: NO STICKERS! all the details on the jet are printed onto the plastic, which is a pretty nice move. The model set comes with a flight stand if you want the plane off the table, but it's a little weak and the model will wobble from slight bumps.I'm really happy with this purchase and enjoyed building it with my son. If you're a Top Gun fan, an aviation enthusiast, and/or like high-quality building block sets: this is a great set from COBI. Next move will be requesting permission for a fly-by!

Wing folding mechanism is very nice for a brick plane

It's pretty decent. Not as good as Lego brand, but pretty decent.

Got this for my nephew for his birthday and he loved it it was missing I piece but they sent it right away to complete the build very cool and recommended

Incredible set with fantastic detail. Not a complicated build, but fairly lengthy as all the parts are in two main sets unlike classic Lego where you build bag-to-bag. Overall very fun, and the model is a great representation. I did add a couple of small embellishments to make it just a little more accurate such as the treadways on top of the air intakes, added a flat 1x1 instead of a stud for the front wings stops so they can appropriately open all the way up like they should, and a couple of other misc things. Two suggestions for the manufacturer, the nose cone could be a little more stable as it tends to fall off if just moving the model around, as well as the vertical missile brackets as they fall off just thinking about moving it (model cement does wonders for these). Overall, highly recommend.

As with most Cobi kits this was a joy to build. Flawless parts fit, clear instructions, generally good stability and well done engineering. This one is better than average for a toy brick jet as far as playability for younger builders.I am not a fan of the little rubber hoses that are used for the pilot's air mask feed in any of their kits. They are too stiff which makes them hard to bend into place. I have not gotten brave enough to try heating them into position yet.The display stand makes it look great on a shelf, desktop or in a display case. Keep in mind that you'll need some significant space because she's a big bird when finished!p.s. It would have been cool if the kit had helmets and head and hands for Iceman and Slider, Hollywood and Wolfman. That way you would have a good excuse to buy extra copies of the kit.

I have done a bunch of Cobi kits and I really like what the company does. Most of my stuff is older kits but I found this one at a great price due to a damaged box - I like the plane and the movie so I bought it. I am so glad I did - its great!It takes some time building before it actually resembles a plane but Cobi doesn't disappoint. Very cool to make a tiny Goose and Maverick in there too.