Tornado F.3 - Operation Granby

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February 2, 2025
Partly scracht built cockpit, to fit the PE parts for the Hasegawa kit and correct some errors from the kind of made up Revell cockpit.
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February 2, 2025
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February 2, 2025
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February 2, 2025
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February 3, 2025
The air intakes fit was surprisingly good, after forcing the warped upper fuselage into place with clamps and lots of super glue.
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February 3, 2025
Wings and pylons are positionable, the Revell mechanics work well.
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February 5, 2025
The cockpit sides are more putty than plastic. There was a huge step because of bad fitting and the panel lines were totally wrong anyways.
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February 5, 2025
I really like the stage after priming 🙂
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February 9, 2025
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February 9, 2025
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February 9, 2025
Rescribed the false and missing panel lines on the front below the cockpit on both sides.
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February 11, 2025
Adding some break lines to the main gear and a power line(?) to the front gear headlight, based on reference photos.
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February 11, 2025
So many different greys...
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February 13, 2025
Masking to spray the areas where radar absorbent paint was applied in '91.
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February 15, 2025
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February 15, 2025
Some parts painted and a little scratchbuild on the cockpit canopy. The kit does not allow the canopy to be open, but with a little bit of modification (that's cutting) it should be doable.
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February 15, 2025
Gears attached, gloss👍 coat applied, next step decals.
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February 15, 2025
Some decals on the tanks and sidewinders. The red stripes are painted, as the stripes on the missiles. Decals are from a Heller Tornado kit, the F.3 kit only has decals for the jet itself. Please ignore the misaligned decal on the third sidewinder, this will be the spare to make space for the Phimat.
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February 15, 2025
First decals set, part of the Air-Graphics Models decal set. They need very long to seperate from the sheet but then they work really well.
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February 16, 2025
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February 16, 2025
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February 16, 2025
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February 18, 2025
Gloss-y coat to seal in the decals, mounted the drop tanks and the pylons. Next step is weathering.
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February 24, 2025
Weathering.
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February 24, 2025
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February 24, 2025
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March 2, 2025
Printed the ejection seats and some other stuff.
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March 2, 2025
Printed and painted the MB MK.10 ejection seats.
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March 2, 2025
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March 2, 2025
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March 2, 2025
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March 6, 2025
Sidewinders and Skyflash missiles mounted.
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March 6, 2025
Also the Phimat dispenser.
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March 6, 2025
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March 6, 2025
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March 6, 2025
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March 6, 2025
Calling this done.

Commentaires

48 2 February, 18:55

1 2 February, 19:02

DerMattes Auteur
Another project on the bench. I had this kit as a kid and built and painted it with the smallest available brush and unthinned Revell enamel paint. Hope this one will look slightly better in the end 😉

3 February, 17:56

Martin Weinpold
Im here.

1 3 February, 18:25

Tibor Szilvai
👀

1 3 February, 18:33

DerMattes Auteur
Thanks mates for the interest 🙂
The panel lines below the cockpit were just vertical ones, which is not correct as there are multiple access ports with lids. Also the fit was very poor here, had to putty and sand the area multiple times, as well as at the back around the horizontal stabilizers.
Airbrushed panel by panel and then sprayed some light coats to tone everything down.

9 February, 17:42

Jay Mountain Goat
I like the weathering of individual panels. Coming along nicely!

1 12 February, 17:59

Moreno Baruffini
Wow, really an inspiring work for me!

1 15 February, 10:45

DerMattes Auteur
Thank you Jay and Moreno, much appreciated!

15 February, 10:50

Cristian A
Bis hierhin gut gemacht! Sieht fantastisch aus

1 15 February, 20:18

DerMattes Auteur
Danke @Christian
Decals are now complete and I also masked some smaller areas off and sprayed them. Next is clear coat to seal the decals in, then finishing the cokcpit and some weathering.

16 February, 20:07

DerMattes Auteur
Thank you for the likes, mates!
Ejection seats printed to fit the cockpits and painted according to the Duke Hawkins Tornado book and some other references.

2 March, 21:24

Alexander
Looks very nice!
Did you print those parts yourself? The ejection seats look really good! 👍

1 3 March, 19:47

DerMattes Auteur
Thanks Alexander!
Yes, printed by me. The photo of the parts is after printing and washing them. When they are dry I remove the supports then cure them.
The seats are scaled up a bit to fit the cockpit of the Tornado, although they were made for 1/72 scale. I bought the model on cults3d.

2 3 March, 20:39