I started an Italeri Tornado GR4 "Shiny Two" back in September complete with paragon aftermarket parts and the Tornado extras from Flightpath. I orginally started on the flightpath kit and got a bit disheartened, resulting in me stepping away from this for a few months. and building an A-10 (1/48th Italeri) and the TSR2 (1/72 Airfix), I decided to pick it up and with fresh eyes have made a lot of progress! I have put a few pictures below for progress.

Please note that my desk is an tip and it needs to be tidied!

I have mainly concentrated on the Flightpath extenals kit for the moment:

Progress to date (Pre Primed): Note the flightpath etchings above the intakes



Post Primed (and a cleaner desk!)



View of the flaps and also photo etched wing seals - I really think these look good on the model



External Hindenburger Tanker - The final stabilisation fins are currently being soldered together and then will be fitted



Shadow ECM Pod



I am currently waiting for a few parts and paint from hannants to finish this off including resin seats; the Flightpath etched seats are way too fiddly! If anyone is thinking about buying this set, it is pricey but well worth the money in my experience and would possibly buy one again.

More progress soon

James

Good start James, good work with the Flightpath set, I haven't seen the 1/48 one built before.

James... good choice of aircraft to start your BM career with

It's often the way that you come back to a model you were sick of & make good progress... my whole 2008 output fall under that heading!

nice progress can't wait to see it finnished..

Forgot to mention... I saw Shiny Two at Fairford one year & fell in love with the scheme. One of mine will be built up in those colors

"My whole output" is a bit of a grand title for TWO* models....






(*But they were good'uns!)

James, good to see you posting over here

Great work so far on the tonka, looking forward to seeing her progress

Hello and James, nice work on the Tornado.

THREE! Bumhead... and thank you

Scimitar Valiant Gnat

Sorry for hijacking your thread James... he just needed telling!

Blimey!!!


Firstly thank you to everyone for the welcome to the forum and the comments. This one has been slow as I got annoyed with the cockpit detailing! My next step is to wait for the paint to arrive from Hannants to complete the external colours adn then drop back on to the pit once this is completed. Its no way going to be a work of art but it might be more deatiled than the original kit!

I hopefully should get some more pics on here soon, and hopefully a cleaner desk!

My next build (sitting next to the desk) is a tamiya 1/32 F-16 CJ - Has anyone had any experience with this kit? It looks a BEAST!!

Very nice James,welcome to BM too

Sorry for jacking your thread, and for forgetting 1/3 of Mike's 2008 output!



All I can say is - you are in for a treat!

Can I ask why????

The Tamiya 1/32 F-16 is probably the best plastic injection kit ever produced. It will bring a warm glow to your heart as it just falls together in the most pleasing way, and you will have the satisfaction of knowing you are building the most technically accomplished, accurate and intelligently-designed model ever.

But don't just take my word for it - have a search around the forums for a few nice examples.

Very nice work!! I'm making the same model but without the Flightpath kit (using the paragon slats and flaps and neomega cockpit). How did you find the Paragon parts?

Hopefully I'll be posting my first pics of my build later.

Justin

Hi all,

Been a while since I have last posted on here - A quick update to the progress so far.

I have now decided after finding out that Shiny Two is actually a wrap around Medium Sea Grey and not two tone grey with a black spine and fin (as per Model Alliance - thanks to everyone on here for the advice) so I have opted to change and finish the scheme off in 31sq. "Goldstars" scheme.









More to follow soon

James

Stellar work looks great.!!!

Looks good.

Stephen

James - can u email me your address please so i know where to post your decals for this build? Sadly i am again unable to use the forums on my home pc (DNS issue.... Mike?) and i am using my phone to type here - v, v slow, not much fun as i cant see most pictures, and it wont let me use the PM function on here either! My email is Will_is_over_the_moon@hotmail.com.

Looks flippin superb to me - I take it its this scheme? One of my fave on a Tonka.



Eng

Thanks for the comments guys,
eng that certainly is the scheme I will be doing. I still have an airfix tornado GR4 in the stash and might make that one a Shiny Two I think.

Will, I will e-mail you in a moment. Thanks again

Mate that looks awesome. Hope mine goes together just as well. What paint have you used for the greys, I notice your black is from Tamiya. I was thinking of using XF 24 and XF 53 but not sure (Might be X 24 or X 53 I can't remember).

Keep the pics coming. I'll be updating mine on friday all going well.

Justin

That is really nice work m8 looking forward to the final result.

Does anyone know if these (or the shiny two ) markings are available in 1/32?

Not sure about the 1/32 scale decals, i'm pretty sure if they brought them out in 1/48th they would be available in a larger size. Might be worth checking on the Hannants site.

Jussie, Regarding the black, it is actually an Xtracrlyic colour of XA1012 (Night Black) - I am sure you could use the Tamiya Semi Gloss Black to the same effect mind!

Thank you for the kind comments, I hope it looks as good when I have finished!

NOPE!! We are bereft of any decent decal options post-1995, with the exception of EuroDecals.

Hi all,

Next round of updates, Got the burner cans sorted out - First time I have used Alclad2, it certainly is awesome to use!! I have also started with the decals for the 31sq. Goldstars - many thanks to wolvowill for the decals! I suffered a little bit of bleeding with the black below - Any ideas how I can stop this or get over it?

The weapons and tanks are only dry fitted - I saw after taking the shots that I have attached the TIALD Pod and LGBIII the wrong way, which I will correct on the final model.

I think its coming on well, Really pleased with the finish so far. I just have the seats to finish, decals to complete, I was thinking about adding intake covers as well

Hope you like it so far..

Alclad does produce some lovely results! Which shade did you use?

Never used the stuff before,is it easy to use?
Merv

Yup, it doesn't need to be thinned at all. Just make sure you have the area primed with a dark acrylic colour (or a coat of clear over a dark enamel), and that the area is clean and there are no fingerprints or dirty marks. Alclad High Shine needs a gloss black base to work properly.

Spray at a low PSI, and close in. A bit like you were using a brush.

Tom/Merv

The shade is Magnesium, worked really well, might try a bit of dry brushing to highlight it out more if I can - I use a low pressure on the brush as well; small steady coats

Can you brush it?I dont have an airbrush (yet)
Merv

No Merv, I'm afraid not. It's consistancy is like thinners, with metal particles in it.

rich

Merv,

If you're interested in getting an airbrush/ compressor etc I picked all my stuff up for about £100. Works fine but I want to upgrade my airbrush now after about a year. I can get you the details if you want

Please mate,but as I'm currenty unemployed (job interview tommorow tho,fingers & toes crossed) it'd have to go on the list of TTD.
Merv

Right here we are! Completed at last!

It took me a while to complete it but I am really thrilled with the results. Its still not perfect and I have some engine covers to make for the intakes but I thought I would share these pictures with you - I hope that you like it and any comments are always welcome.

Just to let you know it was completed with a couple of layers of Klear, followed by dark dirt and black pro model wash and a bit of light weathering.















Now for the next question - Which to build next???? any ideas?

wow!very nice work!
As for your next.....


Canberra!

Nice Tornado, well done. Now having strugged with that, I suggest the F16 next as a nice relaxing OOB build!

James....NIIIICE! How did you find the fit of the decals in the end? Am tempted to build that jet myself as its such a good looking scheme and I have a spare set of decals still

That is really nice work m8 very impressive.



Canberra next ...you know it makes sense!

Hope the job interview went well Merv.

The compressor is a 'model AS 19' mini air compressor (piston type) cost about £65-70 from ebay and I got my airbrush from Axminster tools.

I just looked on ebay and found this though(£90 all in):

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MINI-AIRBRUSH-COMPRE...A1%7C240%3A1318

(can't comment on the airbrush but the compressor works absoultely fine)

Justin

Will

Decals went on fine, was a bit fiddly to get them right- the only problem was a bit of bleed through with the black being under them - So if you are planning on doing the scheme try and see if you can get a neutral colour or light colour for them to sit on

Thanks again for the decals

Canberra is also currently underway now!

James,

very nice work. That scheme look very striking. I'll bear in mind about the neutral backing for the decals for my Shiny Two.

I would build the F 16 personally.

Jussie,

For Shiny Two, you definately need to have a white background. You could try to trace around the decals while they are on the sheet to get the sizes and then transpose this onto the tail of the tornado, mask around it and then sparay it? Bit fiddly but got to be well worth it!

Hope that is some help. Sae yours in your group, coming on nicely, will have to have another look later as i'm off to work again! Roll on the weekend!