Revell 03892 Tornado GR.1 RAF "Gulf War" 1:32 Scale Unbuilt/Unpainted Plastic Model Kit

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One thing I'm bothered about - how to do the bendy acrylic rod thing for mounting an inflight build? It looks really cool, but how do you go about bending the acrylic rod without melting it? The kit provides a selection of weapons, although some don’t apply to RAF Tornados. Among those that do are laser-targeted GBU-12s, 2,250-liter fuel tanks, AIM-9 missiles, and BOZ-107 countermeasures and Sky Shadow ECM pods. A nice inclusion would have been Brimstone air-to-ground missiles carried by the GR4 on numerous deployments late in its career. Guess I won't be using these, so will save for a future project. At least I don't have to chop off those lovely seatbelts! This will be a conversion to the F3 using Heritage Aviation's resin conversion set as a basis. Thought I'd better get on and do it before Italeri release an F3! (I hope!!) Thanks, that's good info. The set you linked to is the Meindert one I referred to in post #2, and sounds like Heritage went a bit further so hopefully it's closer to reality!

OK, I think it really boils down then to how accurate you want to be, how much (or little) aftermarket you want, and how creative you can get 🙂

I decided at the outset to remove myself from the somewhat typical and lengthy description of the Tornado technical development and operational history. The Tornado has certainly served very well during its lifetime, and has undoubtedly been a great asset to those who needed it. Planning to display this in flight so pilots are necessary - two PJ Productions RAF aircrew ready to go! The airframe parts feature pronounced panel lines — some might call them overdone — and other surface details. There are two options in the box, and you'd be right if you guessed that they were both painted in desert pink. From the box you can build one of the following: Revell model kits are available from all good toy and model retailers. For further information visit

it was at this time I decided to add a sound chip might as well jump in completely and do the whole electric thing. The cuts went well and this fits quite nicely. Obviously will need some filler but it's about as snug as you could get. First big scare out of the way!

Reviewed by Kevin Williams

Taking its curtain call with the Royal Air Force in 2019, the Panavia Tornado is an example of a successful multinational program to develop a multirole aircraft to serve with multiple air arms. Introduced as an interdictor/strike jet, the Tornado morphed into other roles including suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD), reconnaissance, and one version was even fielded as an interceptor. The Panavia Tornadois a family of twin-engine, variable-sweep wing multirole combat aircraft, which was 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 defencesTornado ECR ( electronic combat/ reconnaissance) and the Tornado ADV(air defence variant) interceptor aircraft. My intention was to have this in the traditional grey paint scheme, but there are lots out there so I went for the desert brown, adding contrast with green and grey, the sound kit was from Jennifer smith ( [email protected]) She also programmed the correct light sequence from video I sent her, dam that girl is good. Before the GR.4 update, the recce-dedicated Tornados in RAF service were the GR.1A variant. This has both cannon removed with the muzzles faired over, small SLIR windows on either side of the lower forward fuselage, and an Infrared Linescan (IRLS) in a streamlined belly fairing (not to be confused with the Italian/German ECR, which has more of a "canoe" shaped fairing). I believe Flightpath/David J. Parkins offers a 1:32 GR.1A conversion/detail set.

The fuselage plug also fit pretty well, but I ended up dunking it in some boiling hot water and reshaping it a little to fit both the nose and mid sections better. Now, let's talk about this nose...Every one of these I've seen built, well let's just say the nose looks 'off'... Let me make it clear, these are excellent models built by very capable modellers and this is by no means a criticism of their skills or abilities but to highlight what I believe to be a weakness of the existing conversion sets: The Tornado was developed and built by Panavia Aircraft GmbH, a tri-national consortium consisting of British Aerospace(previously British Aircraft Corporation), MBBof West Germany, and Aeritaliaof Italy. It first flew on 14 August 1974 and was introduced into service in 1979–1980. Due to its multirolenature, 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 ofinternational co-operation beyond the production stage. Looks pretty familiar, the old Revell GR.1 kit which has now been not so much surpassed as smashed into the Stone Age by the new Italeri masterpiece. There are a couple of different releases of the "new tool" Revell 1:32 Tornado (and a few more with RAF options that just aren't labeled as such on the box), so specifying a kit number would help verify your options strictly OOB.This won’t be as interesting a build as the other very excellent detailed one just completed. I tend to not be too bothered about realism and just build oob but maybe another take on the subject might be useful to someone? Progress has been mainly on sub sections and lots of test fitting as I wrap my head around how it fits together. Seems quite neatly designed and looks like it’s going to be ok. Annoyances mainly around the ridiculously fiddly p.e. parts on the fin which on my sons Revell version are pre molded and don’t really look too bad for it either. Again I find myself wishing they’d included a spare exhaust can so I could have an engine on display next to the aircraft. Had hope for an airies one by now but don’t think I’ll wait. Will be done with flats/slats out wings forward & probe out but spoilers closed & speed brakes down. If only there were a decent set of pilot figures available I’d have modelled it on touchdown with everything dangled reversers deployed & spoilers up but the only figures I could find just don’t look good in my opinion. Hopefully engines next then I can commit my test fits with some glue.