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Hello My first attempt to show one of my models. The Revell Tornado was quite good and easy to build, some flash, a bit of care needed with the moveable wings and a lot of patience with the decals as there are a lot of them. They were very good, responded well to Microsol fluid and fitted almost 100%. Nosegear was lowered, some lenses added, modified the nosecone (not sure it became better though). A Boz 100 flare dispencer was used on both wings, because I found a photo of that. I added tigerstripes to both of them too. As it was my first Revell Tornado I had some problems to figure out how the main gear was fitted, but in the end even I did understand it. When I look at the real thing, I should off course weathered it more at the rear section. Maybe I add this sometime im the future. and in company with some of the other models Thanks and I hope you like it //Anders -
Here is another of my current obsessions with Tiger Meet aircraft. It is the Revell 1/72 “Black Panther” Tornado from the 2011 Tigermeet. Now why they call it Black Panther is beyond me as the scheme on the plane is clearly that of a tiger. Prior to this I had only built Revell’s 1/144 Tigermeet kits. Those went together quite well. This one was no exception. The fit of the parts, their design, can’t say enough about them. The fit of the decals and the design of them also are top notch. The instructions to put the decals on, not so hot. You really need to go over the decals, the position drawings in the instructions and figure out where to start with them and which decals go down first. If you don’t then bad things will happen. And the build instructions should very precisely say “Hey, quit building this kit right here; paint it and put the decals on! Do not put the pylons on the bottom of the aircraft and do not attach the various nobs and bits that protrude on the airframe.” Unless you are a 5 level decal master of the universe, adept at cutting, splicing and piecing decals, you need a clean upper and lower surface to make this decal scheme work. I had to remove all of the pylons on the underside after I had attached them to make this scheme work. Removing them was a tad harder than gluing them on. Especially since I had done all of the paint work prior to removal. Other than this one gripe, I would recommend this kit in a heartbeat. Here are the results: I took the last picture to show what the scheme looked like wings extended. NATO meets Picasso. So, the only thing left is to build is a stand for this. I am open to ideas as my corny one is a tiger paw base with the jet suspended by acrylic tubes from the jet exhausts. Also, do you think anyone will notice there are no pilots flying the bird? Maybe a really fancy drone?
