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Thank you very much for that information. I will store it away until later. Quick question, did you put any crew in the Tornados? I have made a start on the other two aircraft. To the BuccaneerI have fitted the bomb bay and two of the U/C doors, a bit of filling required. I have left the other one off so that I could show the detail that is in there and unfortunately has to be removed to fit the door. I have also carried out a dry fit of the upper fuselage, which is very good. On the Tornado I have just done a dry fit of the rear fuselage and wings. this again is very good. The instructions would have you fit the tailplanes at this stage, but as the rear of the section is another part and if there is any sanding to be done they would just get in the way and more than likely disappear. This will be glued together tonight and I will start painting the cockpit as there are decals to apply in here. Buccaneer. Tornado.

Sorry I cannot help with your question about a Tamiya mix as I do not use these paints. But I have had a look on dstorm.eu and they have a paint section for colours. Unfortunately they too do not have a mix for Tamiya. Here is the said page of UK colour schemes during the Gulf War:- https://www.dstorm.eu/pages/color/uk.html

As @Pappy said, but the cockpit is all black, from the walkway forward.

I have made a small start on the VC-10. I fitted the fuselage windows, after removing a little bit of flash plastic from each one. I have also smoothed the fuselage joint so that I get a better fit of these parts. I think that I will be adding some plastic strips along the upper of one half and a more substantial bit to the lower half, as this will have the mount for the diorama. I have also fitted the U/C doors to the lower wing parts. I thought that it would be better adding now when I can get to both sides of the doors than later when the wings are together.

This is my entry for this GB. It is the aircraft flown by Capt Kim "KC"Campbell (Killer Chick) during Op Iraqi Freedom. This aircraft was badly damaged during a flight over Baghdad, so bad that she had to revert to manual control to get back to base. The aircraft was then deemed that the damage was so severe that it had to be reduced to parts. The model was made with the Italeri kit and Two Bob decals. The build thread is here:-

As mentioned earlier, here are some photos of the finished model. Thanks to all that have encouraged and given advice throughout this build.

Nice work on the black end (those who have worked on Phantoms will know what I mean) and a very good idea for the tailplanes.

As a certain war happened in the 90s, count me in.

I have seen photos of a Royal Navy FG1 with a flat 4 configuration and carrying Sidewinders (whether for show purposes or not I don't know), but as you mentioned not a RAF FGR2.

I see what you mean. I have had a look at the fuselage halves over the past few days, removing the flash and other lumps to try and make the edges smooth. Will be looking at other parts tonight. On a different note does anyone know where I can get 1/144th aircrew from? The VC-10 is fine as I can use a decal for the flight deck windows, but the other two aircraft have rather a big window covering the cockpit.

Yes, with Laarbruch now being Weeze Airport.

For this GB i will be using the Roden kit of the Vickers VC-10 K3. Along with this I hope to make a Tornado and a Buccaneer so that I can do a flying diorama of these two aircarft being refueled during Op Granby in 1991. I say hopefully as I have never attempted anything like this before. I will also be using a decal sheet from F-Dcal for this aircraft. For the Tornado I will be using the Revell kit, but with a dragon kit decal sheet. I may find one from elsewheere, as this kit is quite old. For the Buccaneer whilst I will be using the 1/144th.co.uk kit. I also hope that doing all three aircraft on one build thread is allowed. Forgot to say I also have some baskets that I found whilst walking around Telford last year when this plan all started. The box art. Inside the box. Kit instructions and decals. F-Dcal decals. The Revell Tornado. The plastic. Kit instructions. The big decal sheet for a 1/144th model. The Dragon kit. The decals. The Buccaneer. Inside the box. All the parts. Instructions and decal sheet. The decal sheet. The refuelling baskets.

All finished now. Hopefully I will have some photos by the end of the week.

Certainly.

I forgot about the @Enzo the Magnificent way of doing things.