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Maybe it's the extended time I've had off, maybe I'm just going mad but I've had an idea... If I combine Revells Tornado F3 with their GR4 along with some scratch building in the cockpit and between the nose and the windscreen, I reckon I can backdate an F3 into the sole F2A, other wise known as the Tornado Integrated Avionics Research Aircraft (TIARA for short). Due to the parts break down of the Revell kit it's pretty simple. The main changes are swapping the vertical tail from the GR4 onto the F3 including the lower fillet, along with the shorter engines and the rear fuselage plug between the tail lugs and the thrust reverse buckets. There aren't much in the way of markings to worry about so that just leaves the cockpit modifications and the nose. The area just aft of the hinge line for the radar was modified to test an IRST, which I believe influenced the decision for one to be included on the Typhoon. There may be a few changes to aerials due to the systems added over the aircrafts life but nothing to hard to fix. It does of course leave me with a what if Tornado GR5 which will be a GR4 with the longer engines following the retirement of the F3 fleet. The other alternative was to do the F3 in it's final flight configuration, with a single Meteor Test Missile under the rear port missile station (ok, so not the final final flight) but that would need markings sourced and I don't have access to the drawings for the added calibration markings, extra Skyshadow Pods to convert to camera pods, etc. The GR4 would become a GR1 ZA326. As far as I know the F2 had the extra Fuel Tank behind the cockpit the same as the F3. Are there any other external changes between the F3 and F2A that I've forgotten about? TIA Chris (an obviously fevered mind, or just far too much time on my hands) PS. I worked on TIARA, the Meteor Trails Tornado and ZA326 years ago so I'd be happy either way. I might do the GR5 as 326 just to mess with some heads
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Hi all. After I initially wanted to have a go at my Hasegawa Gr.5 in Pegasus testbed livery and then decided to have nothing entered at all because I am such a slow builder I decided today: Who cares? I through in my VAAC Harrier and see what happens. What I have here is a Monogram Harrier which I bought cheap without box and with most parts off the sprues. I am not sure if it is complete but I think it will do the trick. I started to rescribe the parts. Well they are rescribed by now to be honest but not jet sanded. Also in the picture is the Heritage conversion set for the first generation Harrier trainers: Not shown in the picture are the decals I did for the VAAC Harrier. And here is my progress so far (started today apart from the rescribing): This is the cockpit resin piece on which I need to remove some resin to make the forward U/C bay of the Monogram kit fit: And here is the main and the aft fuselage including wheel well and airbrake housing (correct term???) assembled. Some sanding and filling required... Rene
