"Temptress of Tabuk" -Tornado GR.1

[James G]

23 hours ago, cathasatail said:

Gosh, thank you everyone for the kind comments! it really means a lot!

 

Ask, and you shall receive (although because the lens of my DSLR is physically too big to get close enough, I've had to use a lower quality zoom camera. I hope these are ok!) :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(-Apologies about the quality again)

 

 

Haha thanks, well for the past month and a bit I've been waiting to find out whether I'd graduated from university (I actually found out 2 days ago, and ended up getting a first). So I've been distracting myself by throwing myself into this build.

I can't recall, but I suspect they probably were courtesy of Cartograf (EDIT: see post #22 below). It might be that I wasn't soaking them for long enough, but I found that upon placing on the surface of the model, the decals just wouldn't "slide" as most other decals I've worked with tend to. The quality is phenomenal, don't get me wrong, but after losing one "Foxy Killer" decal to ripping and folding/curling I was compelled to buy an aftermarket set to finish it off. If you look at the starboard and port views of the nose area, you can see that aftermarket decals were used on the starboard side (evidenced by the reduced intensity of the red lettering).

 

It might have just been my technique, but I can't fault the quality!

 

 

The flaps and slats are all normal kit parts and I haven't changed them one little bit (I gather that the base kit is the Revell IDS one).

 

There's a slight story to me and models with Tornado flaps.... When the Revell IDS kit first came out, I cobbled together one in a German green/black wraparound scheme, but ended up sticking the flaps on upside down.... Skip forward a few years and I repeated the same mistake with a 617Sqn rendition with the same Revell kit, and when I had a pop at the 1:72 Tornado I tried to scratchbuild the flaps with plasticard....

 

Guess what I did wrong...

 

 

 

Yep... I scratchbuilt the flaps the wrong way around because I designed them off of the 1:48 kits I'd built. Whoops!

 

Moral of the story- check your references!

 

Best wishes,

Sam

 

😂 oh well...your Tornadoes still look great!

[nigelshipp]

Lovely build, looks a bit odd with tanks fins the wrong way around but apart from that cracking

[cathasatail]

5 minutes ago, nigelshipp said:

Lovely build, looks a bit odd with tanks fins the wrong way around but apart from that cracking

Oh strewth, how on earth have I managed that... 😮  Thanks for pointing it out, consider it fixed for the next build!