F-14 Tomcat for microarmor

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Tomcat (ala Top Gun) is a surprisingly big plane; in fact, it was the biggest plane on board until our world cruise when we had an EA-3 Whale (Skywarrior) that had a sign on the side "on loan from the Smithsonian". Again, no loadout or missiles were present. I understand that before it was retired in 2006, it did some precision bombing as a "BombCat". Iran still uses it today. A model of the Tomcat in full dimensions is available in Blender 2.79b and has been scaled to 1/100 for the .stl file. Scaling down to 35% in the slicer was necessary due to accidental over-scaling, resulting in an open wingspan of 20.34m instead of 19.55m; a 4.5% discrepancy attributed to drawing inaccuracies. Shrinking it down further would make the wings and stabilizers too thin for a .4mm nozzle. Dice measuring 15mm are used for reference purposes only, and if printing is not possible, posting will be omitted.