After over 5 years of building this beast I finally finished it one week ago.
It's the well known Revell 1:32 Tornado IDS Version with some "homemade" decals from Harald Hensel (www.Hahen.de) and my friend Jürgen who draw some of them Thank you guys very much!

In this build I used a BlackBox resin cockpit, CAM avionic boxes and some scratchbuilding in the wheel wells,the refueling probe compartment and the airbrake.
Colors are a mix of all kind of brands (Revell, Tamiya, XtraColor, Alclad, Vallejo ...)

The Tornado you see here is 44+94 in the year of 1999. It was the Tornado of the former Kommodore colonel Harry H. Schnell of Fighter Bomber Wing 33 based at Büchel - Germany in which he took part as the first German delegation of 4 Tornados taking part in Polands "Ocelot" excercise held at the airbase in Powidz.

The only patch which wasn't originally on the Tornado was the "Ocelot 99" patch but the receiver of this Tornado wanted it. And who would gainsay a colonel :lol:

And now on with the pics! Sorry on some you can see some pollen of which we had a ton here in south of Germany when I was taking the pictures...

Thanks for looking

Looks good!

I would say that's some aircraft pron right there! Very nice!

I'm surprised the buyer waited 5 years...

WOW!! really good work there.

Vey cool.


Wheels

Awesome Dude

Coolest Diorama ever!

Superb work, and very well photographed too.

The last two pics seem real,
Amazing work

Cheers

Dondy,that is outstanding

Makes the things I used to build as a lad look like pieces of c**p.

Great Job! It almost looked real on some of the picture. If I had half of your talent I would be a happy model builder

Beautiful work, simply amazing.



Bullet

Nicely done!!!

That is pure artistry, outstanding work

Rooivalk

Holy smokes, that looks good!

Awesome photography as well!

Thank you very much guys

Dondy,

Did you make the background and shelter or is this a "forced perspective" trick with the camera angles? Cause it's hard to tell.

Edit. Ok after looking at it again I'll say it's a forced perspective. The yello stripe on the ground is too thick and the lighting appears to be natural sunlight. Either way great pics and model.

Jason

What the other guys said, outstanding.

Yes you are right Jason. The photos have been shot at the former military base in Memmingen, now used as civil airfield.
Gladly they haven't demolished all of the military buildings and HAS.

Memmingen, isn't that a Ryanair destination? I've applied for work as a pilot with them

Yes, for quite some time now Ryanair is on the base. I think like 3-4 years or something.

That's an amazing model!

It's beautiful. There's love in that model.

Wonderful build! A lot of attention to detail, I really like how the cockpit turned out.
Dud

Beautiful photography.

Again thank you all very much!