Images redone,with thanks to contributors.

Cool Pictures
thanks for those Next one I'll be doing is a Brit version

Superb stuff!! Any chance of making this a sticky?

Yeah... just spill your milkshake on the screen

Excellent work Merv, there's some fantastic images there, LOVE the view from the rear seat over the lake

This is a rather interesting load!

Is it safe to assume that, in '85, the 1500l tanks would have had 4 fins?

I can only ever remember 1500ltr tanks having 2 fins. The 2250ltr tanks have 4 fins, and are made of alloy, whereas the 1500ltr tanks are Phenolic material.

I believe that there are fittings for the upper fins on 1500ltr jugs, but I have never seen them used.


Flipflopman

Cheers for the help FFM

It might be an idea to check the pic's that are included with the decal sheet

Quite a few more, mainly Tornado, but other types as well can be found on my website http://www.tomsaviation.co.uk

There's a familiar name from UKAR.

Certainly is...... small world

Is there any chance someone has or someone can point me in the right direction of cockpit shots of a German ECR Tornado please? Im about to embark on the Revell 1/32 ECR kit as a Tigermeet bird and it will out the box Im afraid, so no after market pit but Im going to try my best. If and I mean IF I dont make a real hash of it then I will share pics, but if it goes pearshaped then 1. I will cry & 2. I will hide LoL

Thanks in Advance

Bex

Cool pix!! Any chance of some shots of the insides of the radar/electronics bays in the nose??

Minor point - the last photo in post #5 is of the then-OC 617 rather than OC IX. An official RAF publication made the misidentification of which sqn he commanded, much to his bemusement.

A couple (more) questions from me

Op. Granby
Was the mission markings applied after each mission, or did they come in 'bulk', say a bunch once a week?
I've seen a pic of AB (which I assume is Alarm Belle, ZD746/AB) with ALARM on the wing pylons and tanks under the belly. The book with the picture says this was common in the beginning of the conflict. Can I assume this is correct?

Recent(-ish)
Are there any close-up pic's of the outboard shoulder pylon for ALARM? It looks to be different from the outboard shoulder pylon for Sidewinder on the F.3
Are the ALARM shoulder-rails similar to the underbody rails?

Cold War
How does one get a hold of the twin-carriers used on the underbody-pylons, in 1/72? Even if they where uncommon, I still want them

Now then Big bird hasn't lost the plot, but just recently I seem to have picked up a number of Tornados. Both diecast and plastic. Now I have this fanciful notion of making one at some point but I would like to paint it up as the aircraft of Pablo Mason from the Gulf war (1991) . I can find lots of photos of nose are but can find no reference to the pilots of each aircraft.
Now the annoying thing is I had Pablo's book but lent it to someone and never seen it since And I'm sure there was lots of pics and detail that I would need.
Can any of you Tonka fans out there help please?

Thanks that interesting as I've also been told that ZD790 DL-D "Debbie" was the Tornado that Pablo flew.

Here are some pictures of the GR1 radar that I took at work.











Graham.

Chin Pod & Gun-



1OOOb bomb & BL755 on S type trolley-



LGB's (OK,They are going on a Harrier but they show what they are good detail pics)



Modern helmet-

Graham,
having just joined the Forum I am delighted to find your GR radar pictures. I have been searching everywhere for shots like this. Living near RAF Leuchars all I can get are the F.3 radar shots.
Is it possible you have - or can get - closer shots of all the plumbing so I can do a super-detail job on my Revell 1/32 radar.
thanks again,
Tom

I will add some of my Pics to Spikes Thread.

Aircraft ZD811









Julien

ZA452







Julien

ZA612





Julien

Some Cockpit Pics






Julien

Under Wing Thingys

Skyshadow


Boz Pod


Tank


Aquisition Round


Practice Bomb Carriers



Julien

Julien,
I have been following this one...thanks so much for the great GR.4 shots, especially the open radar section. I am just contemplating working on my Revell (1/32) Tornado. Any chance you can get shots of the front section of the radar open? Can't get much of this anywhere. I've been to RAF Leuchars - the F.3 radar is just not as interesting to look at.
Tom

You're welcome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Spike,

I am sure no offence was intended

I am sure many others as well as myself appreciate this thread as well as your many updates with advice and information.

You are a star, please continue to give advice

cheers Bob

Alot of nice informative and juicey pictures. Now one thing is missing though. l need pictures of the Mauser BK-27 cannon in and out of the tornado. l am doing a F3 and want to open this bay and l need info. Thanks

Nice thanks but do any of you have pics of it in the cannon bay as well?? thanks

I've requested some from the lads on the trade website.
Merv

Merv,


hope you did not take offence at me putting my Tornado pics here with yours, if you want me to remove them just say.

I just took the pics but am in no way any kind of Expert!

Julien

Not at all,just a bad day.

Very useful pictures, Merv. I've got the Italeri GR1, need an F3. Hate to say it, but it blows the Airfix kit out of the water. Thanks for sharing.

Tony

R.A.F.
Tornado GR.1
Tornado GR.1B
Tornado GR.4

Germany AF
Tornado ECR
Tornado ECR (46+39)
Tornado IDS

Cheers Marek

I'll would like ask everyone, if you don't have some photo of main and front wheels bay of Tornafo F.3 or ADV.
Thanks for help...Tom

This is the cannon bay on the GR.4, just found this picture.



Julien

Interesting picture this. To my eye, that looks like a (dummy) LITENING pod under the belly, which is surprising considering it's a Saudi IDS®! But am I right that it's a LITENING, or might it be something else? Something French maybe?

Hi, I hope I can help on your question of the mission markings.

I was with XV Squadron based at Muharraq from November 190 to March 1991 and I had the task of adding each mission marking to Toornado's Debbie, Emma, Nikki and Helen (all of Snoopy Airways). I added each mission marking after each sortie, except for the 3th sortie of each aircraft. This was added together with the 14th sortie marking. The early JP233 missions had a bomb with JP233 stencilled in yellow on each bomb. We shared the aircraft work with the guys from 17Sqn RAF Brüggen, and whenever a sortie was completed during their shift they would leave details for me so that I could keep each aircraft's tally up to date.

You can find close up pictures of many of the Tonkers based at Muharraq on the aeroflight website at http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/pics/gulfwar/gwtornados2.htm

John C

Thanks John! I take it those are your pictures? I can't seem to spot any bombs with JP233 stencilled on them and only the one of ZD790/Debbie after the ceasefire seem to display a JP233. Do you know which aircraft flew JP233 missions? Also, were there any missions flown with 8(!) 1000lb'ers? I know it's been a while I recall OD'ing on CNN at the time, which we had as a trial on our town cable.

You can download more reference photo's including the ones in this thread by this link:

http://www.filefactory.com/f/0398ac507d3656a9/

You will need WIN RAR or similar to unwrap the archive.
Many thanks go to the contributors.
Merv

Sorry fo rthe long delay in getting back to you.

if you enlarge a Hi-res version of the nose markings the first 3 bombs have JP233 stencilled on them, I gave up as the paint we had was very wishy-washy and didn't show very well.

As for the bomb loads, after the first JP233 raids, and aircraft losses to anti-aircraft fire the missions changed to a mix of aircraft carrying JP 233 and 8 x 1000lbs bombs. The initial wave of aircraft would fly down the sides of the runway/airfield and drop the 1000 pounders on the anti-aircraft batteries whilst the next wave of aircraft would criss cross the airfield deploying the JP233's.

After we stopped the JP233 raids all of the missions were with 8 x 1000 ponders carried on twin store carriers on the forward and rear stations on the shoulder pylons.

All the Granby prictures on the Aeroflight site are mine.

Cheers

John C