1/72 Revell Tornado "Eye of the Tiger"

[yak face]

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.

I always fancied getting the other one like this , revell called it the black panther , even though it was a tigers face ! https://www.scalemates.com/kits/reve...anther--136464

[HAWKERHUNTER]

I always fancied getting the other one like this , revell called it the black panther , even though it was a tigers face ! https://www.scalemates.com/kits/reve...anther--136464

That does look nice Tony but it will have to wait. I still have these two in my stash to build.

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Just a word of caution to anyone building one of these. The horizontal stabilisers work in tandem and the build requires them to be joined and fitted early in the construction. They are very fragile and have to withstand a lot of stresses throughout the rest of the build process, prepping, prima, paint, decals, varnish and finally weathering if desired. The part of the stabiliser that passes through the fuselage is very thin, about the size of a cocktail stick. Make sure you dont get any glue on it as you join the two halves of the fuselage together or it will rot through the thin plastic. Mine broke off so I decided to complete the model first and add them back on at the very end. This also made adding the complex decals scheme a lot easier. For this reason I left the tail pipes off so that I had access into the rear of the fuselage. Rather than just glue the stabilisers on I wanted to retain some movement in them so have added some steel pins into the stabilisers. which will be pushed into and glued into a thin piece of tubing concealed inside the fuzz. Hope this helps.

[HAWKERHUNTER]

While Im waiting for the varnish to harden prior to masking over the decals just thought I would dry fit the canopy.

[Guest]

That is a mad scheme and kudos to you for getting the best of it.

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Worst fears were confirmed today. So the front of the Tornado needs to be painted black right up to the striped decal that runs down the fuzz below the cockpit. The intention was to mask off and spray the nose of the plane and the nose of the wing pods black. Despite applying the decals over a week ago onto a gloss varnished surface and applying a coat of varnish on top of the decals 5 days ago when I came to mask off today a small piece of decal broke off. Fortunately this was underneath and will be easily repaired and hidden. However I took this as a warning and not wanting to risk further damage to the decals I have reluctantly decided to hand paint the nose section. First coat has gone on OK and I will tidy it up with a second coat tomorrow. The joys of modeling.

[Steven000]

Nice progress, sad to read about the masking problem, hope you'll be able to fix it easy. Looks quite complicated that scheme :astonished: ...
Cheers, Steven

[yak face]

I feel your pain steve , having had a similar masking glitch on my thunderflash. I had to resort to touching up the wing walks by hand as i didnt want to risk further damage.You’ll sort it no problem , the first coat looks fine . , cheers tony

[colin m]

I feel your pain. Although I got lucky with a JP build a while back. I masked up over the decals, and slowly removed the tape, expecting the worse, but no, they stayed put. I should have bought a lottery ticket that day.

[HAWKERHUNTER]

I can only assume that I didn't press the decal down enough at the point it pulled away. I was using Micro Sol and Set and only had limited amount of time to position them. The stripes were very fiddly. Never mind, onwards and upwards.

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Do you ever get those modelling days when nothing goes right. This Tornado is lucky to be in one piece this morning. Spent two hours last night trying to fit the undercarriage and for the life of me I could not get the the parts to fit. For a start the main leg, despite being a 1/72 scale kit is made up of three separate parts and every time I came to fit part 66 it was too long and pushed the main leg out of alignment. I have gone over and over these instructions and for the life of me cannot see where I am going wrong. Anyway I have fitted them and modified the attachment point in the undercarriage bay to accomadate part 66. Don't know if anyone else has made a Revell Tornado on this scale but let me know if you had similar fit issues. Wing pods, ejector seats and undercarriage bay doors going on today.

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Calling this one done now. Light is failing in the house so I will get some better shots and post in the completed Aircraft section when the lighting is better. Ive kept the finish fairly clean and simple. No weathering just assembled pretty much as it came out of the box. I have also left the Pitot static tube off the nose intentionally as I always seem to break them off and I think it spoils the look of the model. May add it later. I think anyone can get a good result with this model if you just take your time with the paint and decals. Hats off to Revell for producing a great looking model at a relatively low cost.

[Steven000]

Looks very cool Steve, excellent result! :thumb2:
Steven

[yak face]

‘Eye ’ love it steve ! .. sorry i’ll get me coat :sad-face:
Tony

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Looks very cool Steve, excellent result! :thumb2:
Steven

‘Eye ’ love it steve ! .. sorry i’ll get me coat :sad-face:
Tony

Thanks for the comments. Like I say once i can get some decent shots Ill post some better pictures.