1/32 Italeri Tornado

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The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin-engine, variable-sweep wing multirole combat aircraft, jointly developed and manufactured by Italy, the United Kingdom and West Germany. There are three primary Tornado variants: the Tornado IDS (interdictor/strike) fighter-bomber, the suppression of enemy air defences Tornado ECR (electronic combat/reconnaissance) and the Tornado ADV (air defence variant) interceptor aircraft.

The Tornado was developed and built by Panavia Aircraft GmbH, a tri-national consortium consisting of British Aerospace (previously British Aircraft Corporation), MBB of West Germany, and Aeritalia of Italy. It first flew on 14 August 1974 and was introduced into service in 1979–1980. Due to its multirole design, it was able to replace several different fleets of aircraft in the adopting air forces. The Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) became the only export operator of the Tornado in addition to the three original partner nations. A tri-nation training and evaluation unit operating from RAF Cottesmore, the Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment, maintained a level of international co-operation beyond the production stage.

The Tornado was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF), Italian Air Force, and RSAF during the Gulf War of 1991, in which the Tornado conducted many low-altitude penetrating strike missions. The Tornados of various services were also used in The Bosnian War, Kosovo War, Iraq War, in Libya during the 2011 Libyan civil war, as well as smaller roles in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Syria. Including all variants, 990[2] aircraft were built.



This is the GR4 “Danger Mouse” ZA452 Operation Teic Iraq 2003 the only additional items used are the Aires ejector seats and seat belts. All painted with Tamyia acrylics

Enjoy

Mike
 

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adt70hk

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Great work Mike!

ATB.

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Jaw dropping.

Love the picture background idea. I may steal that...
 

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Great result.
Like the back ground idea as well.
Is it the new tooled kit or the older one?
 

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Great result.
Like the back ground idea as well.
Is it the new tooled kit or the older one?
I think its the new tooling as its all crisp and sharp, apart from a few places.
 

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Great result Mike, very nicely displayed and photographed.
 

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Stunning result Mike, the model looks very good, nice backdrop idea too! Well done :thumb2:
 

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What can I say the detail is fantastic it must have taken hours and hours to achieve that. Would have been great to see some long shots and not just close ups.
 
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