MarkSH Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Afternoon all, Here is my recently completed entry for the ongoing, very enjoyable and massively well supported Airfix the Golden Years Group Build. Kudos to @Rabbit Leader and co hosts for organising such a successful GB. Anyway my first completion for the GB is Airfix's 1975 M.R.C.A Multi Role Combat Aircraft Tornado in the guise of the German P.01 D9591 shown on it's first flight on August 14th 1974 from Manching Air Base, Germany. I have built the kit with an approximation of dropped flaps/slats. I had to modify the head boxes of the ejections seats, 'cos they just looked silly! The decals are partly the kit supplied and my own home print. The undercarriage has been extended to represent the in-flight relaxed position, surprisingly the most fiddly part of the kit is the main undercarriage doors which do not have any way of attachment so I added a bit of plastic rod in the rough position of the door retraction arm as a sort of stay. The display base is just a bit of MDF I had, a home made motion blurred runway effect done in Corel Photopaint and some acrylic rod with afterburner decals (Corel Photopaint again) 3 layered on each side and slightly misaligned. I thoroughly enjoyed making this old kit as I remember making it when I was a nipper, well younger anyway, hope you like it, thanks for looking. Cheers, Mark. 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnl42 Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Nice work! I especially like the base with its suggestion of speed. I was recently thinking about such a display pose, and it's nice to see it realized so well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaStix Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 That looks great Mark and the base really displays it well! Very well done. Kind regards, Stix 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritJet Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Looks really good, I did the UK prototype with my own decals a few years back so I can appreciate the efforts you've gone to with this. As the others have said the base and afterburners really set it off. Well done. Steve 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiskey Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Awesome! I got my daughter that exact kit a couple weeks ago for her and I to do something together. Looks great! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Fantastic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG X Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 A masterpiece - well done Mark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loloskymaster Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 Very well done ! 😎 It reminds me when I did build the same scheme on an Italeri kit, when I was young..! Lolo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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