Panavia Tornado ECR - 50° Stormo *WIP*
Planning and studying
Pitot probe and AOA vanes
The kit with its extras (missing the BOZ EC pods)
First fit test, used some old guitar strings and copper wire to create the oxygen tubes (I think they are)
Nose wheel well
Nose gear with some added details (plus guitar string for the springs)
Fit test
Fit test
Fit test
Primed with some added wiring, tubing and PEs
Top view
Primed, unfortunately some glue ruined a spring
The PE sheet before detailing
Painted NWW
Original seat (L), resin seat (R) (missing the custom oxygen tubes)
MLG, added PE details plus some extra wiring
MLG wheel well (PE plus custom wiring)
Completed seats
Another angle
Little gap between cockpit and fuselage pieces to fix
Fixing
Refuelling probe (PE plus some more wiring)
Cockpit painted
Nav station detailing
Completed pilot instruments (0.4mm wire to compare, used to paint the dots)
Nav (L) and pilot (R) instrument panels
Nav station detailed
And cockpit glued together
NLG well
Cockpit
Painted the aluminum parts
HUD mount
Fit test (I realized when glueing the MLG that I forgot to add weights in there...)
Wheels
Sanding the gaps between the two parts of the fuselage, changed some avionics on the front
Canopy interior details from an old guitar string
Painting the inner canopy base
Added the strings plus some extra details
mirrors added
Completed inner canopy
Speedbrake vanes to be reworked from scratch
Much better now
Difference
Some filling and sanding here and there...
Adding some (more) details to the MLG wells
Engine assembly glued
Modified and detailed engine assembly
Another look at the canopy with the HUD
Painted all the lights
Added top antenna (from wooden toothpick)
Completed MLG wells
MLG wells plus doors
Adding some more details to the speed brake vanes
Ready for the black paint
Nose antennas and probes installed
Checking the fit
Fixing
Much better now, although I lost some panel lines
Fixing the top
Finished result
Last look before final priming
Primed
AGM-88C HARM missiles ready to rock
Shading
First hand of base color
Weathering the fuel tanks with the salt technique
MLG well details
Checking the wing rotation marks
Canopy holder
Differences
Base color done after 4 layers
Adding some black details
Pointy thingy ready to sting
Added chrome leading edges
Shading the engines
Masked
Colours used:
- Metallic Blue (X-13 Tamiya)
- Red brown (XF-64)
- Gun metal (X-10)
- Metallic Blue (X-13 Tamiya)
- Red brown (XF-64)
- Gun metal (X-10)
And first step done, already looking good. Painted with X-56
Added some light silver weathering
Wingtips details
Completed canopy
Ready for decals
Decals ready on the rudder
Getting ready to weather the rudder
Looking dirty...
Almost there and already biting
Finally got the BOZ EC pod (the other one wasn't shipped 🙁 )
Let's move to the panel liner
"Wash me"
Weathered and completed engine
A nice and used Tornado beginning to take the final shape
Weathering the fuel tanks with some dry brushing only
Looking goooood
Final engine look
Masking for weathering
Canopy weathered and ready
Added some more engine weathering with Tamiya pigments and brushes (the ones looking like makeup...)
Canopy with its mount
Speedbrakes ready
AGM-88's weathered
Finally received the second pod 😉
Final details and glueing. Had to shorten the NLG to balance the model (always remember weights...)
Nose section
A look from the tail
EC pods with decals and a light coat of grey paint to soften the black details
Comentarios
14 October 2019, 22:06
Konrad -Very nice and detailed work 👍!
I believe your friends dad will love it too!
10 June 2020, 20:57
Tommaso SThank you very much Konrad! I am about to complete the BOZ EC pods and then I will post the completed subject😉
10 June 2020, 21:04
