1/72 Revell Tornado "Eye of the Tiger"

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Hi Guys.

Well before I post these pictures let me apologise for the quality. The camera I have is pretty basic and when I eventually mastered the micro setting and came to view the pictures they looked awful. The parts look like they have painted with a tin of dulux and a stick. I can assure you that they dont look quite this bad in the flesh.

So this is my first attempt with PE parts and please remember this is 1/72 scale.

[ATTACH]43660.vB[/ATTACH]I initially bought some Airwaves harnesses which are the ones on right(brass coloured) but when I realised they wernt painted decided to get a set of Eduard painted ones. They are on the left as you look. But they came as a grey color and were a lot thinner than the Airwaves ones. I also noticed that on the Martin Baker ejection seat the straps that run down from the headrest go behind a piece of padding on the seat so you cant see them, and that two shoulder straps then hang down infront of that back rest padding. The eduard set did not have these shoulder straps which did come with the airwaves. so in the end I made a piece of padding for the seat from plasti card, ditched the Eduard set and went with the airwaves. Because I do not feel confient enough to paint them without destroying the fine detail on them I left then the brass/brown colour and just coated with matt varnish to take the shine off.

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I then moved onto the cock pit and used the decals supplied with the kit for the centre consul. Im not a lover of these dacals but if I try and dry paint something this small the consul just looks a total mess so its the better of the two options for me. I used the PE eduard set for the front instrument panel. To fit these you have to file away the panel to make it thinner so that it can take the etched panel and plastic backing panel with the dials painted on. This was such a phaff to fit that I left it out and just stuck the etched panel on to the facia.

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I will leave the ejector seats out until the model is completed so they dont get in the way and damaged.

The wings were then assembled but you have to fit the pylons early in the build. This is because they actually rotate so that when you drop the wings back you can adjust the pylons so that they always face forward. The mechanism used is a plastic circlip that just pushes onto the pylon once it is in position in the wing. They say not to use any glue but I secured the circlip with some epoxy to stop it springing off once the two wing halfs were joined. I just hope the pylons dont interfere with the under wing decals later.

I have also filled the nose with some small lead shot which is just coated in PVA and stuffed in to set and completed the rear stabaliser assembly which also rotates

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So thats it so far. Not much progress but I always find the cockpits take me ages and things should progress a bit more in the next week. Once again, sorry for the picture quality.

Steve

PS Cant wait to start on my next build. 1/24 scale. At least I will be able to see the parts LOL)

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[Guest]

really really good start,and the harnesses in 1/72 eeekkk,micro surgeons would have trouble doing it,and you did it really well indeed

mobear

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Hi Guys..Just a couple more shots of progress to date. The plane is starting to come together. The tail fin is not glued on and will be attached after painting. This will make applying the fin decals easier. The rear exhaust assembly will also be painted and attached on completion. I checked it for snugness of fit and after some minor trimming am confident that because it is a seperate colour from the fuselage that it will just look great fitted at the end.

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I have also made an executive decision and decided to remove the rotating pylons. I undserstand why revell have done this so that if the wings are retracted you can alter the direction of the pylons and pods to face forward. However I felt that the pylons would cause problems with the underwing decal application and that once completed may damage the paintwork by being moved. So I have decided to model this with wings extended and glue the pylons on at the end.

I also noticed that once I had glued the top of the fuselage to the lower section that by retracting the wings it put a strain on the seam and caused it to open up at the front.

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I have reglued the joint and reinforced it with epoxy on the inside. I wont be moving my wings once the model is completed but if you intend on doing so with your Tornado then you need to make sure that you have full freedom of movement without causing this pressure spot.

In addition I have painted the exhaust intakes on the inside prior to fitting so that I could get the paint all the way back into the intakes.

Thats it for now.

Steve

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[aaron]

Hey Steve, nice job all round so far. The office looks awesome.

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Thanks for looking Aaron. Hopefully it will have some paint on next week.

[HAWKERHUNTER]

really really good start,and the harnesses in 1/72 eeekkk,micro surgeons would have trouble doing it,and you did it really well indeedmobear

Your right about the micro surgery Ole. 1/72 is nt my prefered scale. I only make them because I put a model in to a club competion once a year at my local RC flying club. Originally any model larger that a 1/72 incurred penalty points as the competion was originally designed soley for 1/72.One year, unaware of the rules I built a 1/32 scale f4 Phantom. It dwarfed everything on the table. After the penalty points had been applied the F4 came third but everyone agreed at that point that the rules needed changing. So you can now enter any scale without encuring penalty points but I still knock up a 1/72 just to keep the people who opposed to the rule changes happy.

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Well I told you not to hold your breath but even I didn't think that this would be still ongoing 8 years after opening this post. Just resurected this build. Quite a decal challenge. Just letting everything dry properly before masking and spraying the nose and fuz black back to the decal under the cockpit.

[papa 695]

It's been worth the wait Steve, that's looking great.

[stillp]

Interesting scheme, I think it'd take me a while too, to feel ready to apply those decals.
Pete

[colin m]

8 years, that has to be a forum record - I shouldn't of said that, someone will prove me wrong.

[Guest]

For time between build being first posted on the forum and finally finished, probably. For old model started and then finished without being covered from start to finish on this forum, I know for sure it’s not

[yak face]

Wow long time no see on this one steve!!! Worth the wait though , those decals look amazing . Cheers tony

[Steven000]

Nice model! Hadn't yet seen something like this before :thumb2:

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Not sure why I fell out with this one and put it away not completed. I think I fell out with the PE in the cockpit. Anyway, it will be finished within the next two weeks,,,,,,,,,,,I promise.

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Wow long time no see on this one steve!!! Worth the wait though , those decals look amazing . Cheers tony

I do like these Tiger liveries Tony. Particularly like the way on this one that when the wings fold back they compete the big Cat face on the aircraft.