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At Sea

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  1. The model was using Eduard cockpit zoom set and cockpit masks. Painted using mainly XtraColour enamels though in hindsight I could have made my life much easier using Tamiya acrylics as the colours are nearly the same. Decals are from HaHen and were very good but have a thick carrier film, this is still visible on the flap stencils after 2x Klear and 1x Humbrol Satin Cote. The original plan was to cooy the box art from the early release of the Revell 1/32 GR.1 but the JagBo 32 declas went wrong so I had to use another Squadron's in the end. The under fuselage pylons have the mounst fitted for HARM missiles but these are not on yet. I have also just noticed that I have forgotten the landing lights from the U/C doors. They will be added later. I took the descision not to paint the wing sweep zone as I did not have the confidence to mask them evenly and it looked so good to me now I was happy for the inaccuracies to remain as the aircraft looks like a Norm '83 Tornado enough to my eyes. Comments appreciated.
  2. After having a bit of a fight in the closing furlong with decals I am happy to present my attempt at the new Revell Tornado IDS. Work in Progress http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234990425-revell-148-tornado-ids-luftwaffe/
  3. Excellent work. Very very convincing wethering and the scratch work is exemplary. I dof my hat to you!
  4. Excellent work & a great story behind the real aircraft.
  5. Fixed it! Very happy indeed with the fact that although it is not quite as perfect as I would like it is 100% better than it could have been!
  6. I very carefully used a bit of decalfix to wet the varnish over the decal and then peeled them off. I then used a fine sanding block to remove the 'edge' around where the decals used to be. A carefully brushed on coat of Klear resulted in a reasonable finish. Kit decals and the remains of the HaHen set will give me enough to finish it. Phew! As Flyingdutchman says, I will also always Klear over decals from now on.
  7. man-vegetables man-vegetables man-vegetables. Banged on a coat of Humbrol Matt Cote and... ...the decals all silvered. Tried to touch them in with a little Klear but no good. :-( I guess the matt cote lifted them a little as it dried. Thankfully between the kit decals and the remains of the HaHen set I have enough to re-do them but not as 44+43 from JagBo 32. I gave the whole kit a light wipe over with some sand paper and will coat in Klear before having another go.
  8. Brilliant idea. :-) On the subject of twin stick aircraft not carrying a recce pod the only reason I can think of practically would be that the extra instrumentation required to fly the aircraft from the back seat would use up space used for the control of the pod. Photos are often mis-leading when staged as there are plenty of 'cold-war' propaganda pics taken of aircraft carrying stores which they are not plumbed for. "Aircraft X can do mach 2, has a range of 2500miles and can carry 2 gaziliion weapons extrenally (*but only do one of these things one at a time)."
  9. Thanks to the HaHen decal sheet giving you all the available IDS and ECR codes I have managed to relicate the box art. One note with the HaHen decals is although they are very good, there is no separation of carrier film so you have to be very precise in cutting them out.
  10. Decalled and waiting for a matt coat. Final assembly by the weekend. My first ever go with a dual action airbrush so the camouflage pattern is not 100% correct, but it looks like a Luftwaffe Tornado. Norm '83 3 tone green looks so mean in my opinion. Very mean.
  11. I'd pay £60 if they used the money to new -tool a Vulcan.
  12. Have a look at this. http://www.tornadosig.com/luftwaffe-camouflage-schemes.html
  13. Love Tri-stars. Used to fly TWA back & forth Heathrow to Logan on them when I was a kid. Looking great, in a great scheme.
  14. Excellent work. And most importantly not over weathered. Nice.
  15. Agreed, the only real variation available on modern jets is the amount of pre-shading you indulge in. I wish they would go back to national variable schemes, even if Air Superiority Greys are the best tactical camouflage some national variation would be nice. All Typhoons are the same, just different national markings. Shame.
  16. Perfect nose weight, for reference 10 euro cent and 1 euro cents. Make 40 g including the blutac. :-) Reminds me of the 'Blue Circle' radar the F2's had during the prototype stage.
  17. Secretly I am pleased it is not a 1/48 Spey Phantom as I have just stocked up on Hasegawa FGR2's.
  18. The instructions call for the spine ridge and intake tops to be glued to the fusealge top before they are fitted together. Test fitting showed the area around the back to the cockpit to be very crowded and so as I am going to model mine cockpit closed I decided to cut off the spurs behind the cockpit and this allowed a little more lee way in the area. Also note that at this stage the forward fuselage is still not glued to the sides to allow as much movement as possible during fitting. Better with the spine on. Canopy in place. This really is a satisfying kit to build. Not easy but it really rewards concentration and thought.
  19. I got on a bit of a roll last night and made a lot of progress. Test fitting is the order of the day, and tape up a stage and test fit the next one before comitting to glue. The fuselage is a complicated box and small fit issues will magnify. I have used no filler at all so far and am quite pleased with the result. I only stopped to take some pictures at this stage as this is the first deviation from the instructions I have made...
  20. Yes! I think the 'mini fist bump' thing will be happening at a lot of modelling benches this morning! Now which one, white / green grey / pink?
  21. Hope this helps... http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234990425-revell-148-tornado-ids-luftwaffe/ http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234990453-tornado-in-flight-refuelling-probes/
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