Today’s
completed model was just a sort of passing fancy, although it does fit into a
category that I enjoy: RAF fighters. It’s another 2016 model (still catching up
with publishing those). I was planning to do a Tornado GR4, then discovered I
didn’t have any conversions from Freightog left. After making an order for a
couple more, I decided to finish this one as a GR1 and let the next one be the
updated variant.
I still
have some GR1 commemorative schemes on some older decal sets. This one happens to have come from an Almark
sheet, AKS11. It still can be had from Hannants if you are interested.
The
aircraft was painted in the scheme for RAF 17(F) squadron back when they were celebrating their 75th anniversary. You can tell how old the sheet
is because many squadrons are bumping into their 100th anniversaries
now. Still, it is an interesting layout, if only because there are special bits
on the wings as well as the spine and tail. Almark decals tend to be a bit
thick, but they settled down well enough with SuperSol/Set.
The kit
is the standard Revell Tornado GR1. A good buildable kit. I rather prefer the
buildability of the Hasegawa Tornados (though if you are an engineer type, I’ve
heard talk about some minor shape issues), but the price of the Revell kit
can’t be beat. Having built a number of these before, I didn’t really run into
any unexpected construction issues. Probably the biggest challenge in the build was
masking for the overall camo, but that just goes with the territory. Another
completion in a subseries of Tornados.
This is
completed aircraft #465 (#32 for the year pf 2016), finished in May of 2016.
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