Tornado ADV - 1/48 Hobby Boss

[Guest]

Hi Paul and Allyne, thanks for your wishes and interest. Allyne thanks for the technical input, might try to lightly oil up the underside of the airbrakes, will see how brave I feel. I'm not forgetting the earthing forks for the flaps will try to show something to represent them. Thanks once again for answering all my queries throughout this project. Cheers Derek

[AlanG]

My pleasure Derek. The hydraulic oil initially is a beetroot red colour. But once it's been in a hydraulics system for a while and leaked out it goes a more caramel yellow red (if you can understand that lol). you don't need to spray alot around. The oil tends to gather at the lowest point i.e. the panel joints.

[Guest]

Some great work going into this, the weathering looks superb, very nice build.

[Guest]

Thanks Graham, I am just away to post the finished Tornado on the Aircraft Picture section. Cheers Derek

[Guest]

Hi Allyne, based on your experiences on Tornado's can you advise what colour the wheel wells were on the F3's. I am making this Tornado from No 43 Squadron, RAF Leuchars. Looking at general photos on the internet, the colour seems to be either white or light grey. The kit calls for white, but I am not sure thats right. Cheers Derek

It's gray...always has been gray..never white...I've never seen white undercart on a Tornado,and being an ex Armourer on them,I've seen enough of them close up to know...

(ps,glad you like my ref thread on BM)