If I'd been building a USN F-14 Tomcat I'd be ecstatic, but unfortunately I've achieved a finish that has never been seen on a Tornado F.3, but I can recommend this as a much quicker and easier alternative to salt chipping. So I thought that maybe another coat of Klear with some Mr Levelling Thinner might help. I tried some very gentle rubbing, polishing, sanding to no avail. I don't know for sure what went wrong, but I suspect that it was too cold when I sprayed the varnish and it's landed on the model in partially frozen particles. Just as I was getting in touch of the finish line, and was fairly happy with the colours and finish, I took to it with a rattle can of Humbrol matt varnish and now I have a write off. Oh well, that's all my (occasional and intermittent) modelling of the last 12 months up the swanny. Just hoping that a rattle can matt coat will hide the brush strokes. They are undoubtedly oversized in width, and they are just far to bold.Īnyway, They are all finally on and next up is adding the undercarriage and the easily knocked off probes and antennas. On my model they stand out to the point that they are distracting. I’ve been through many books and countless online images of Tornado F.3s and they are barely visible on most photos. My other observation about the decals is that whilst they are basically to scale, they really don’t look to scale.
I don’t know how I did it but I positioned the tail insignia a little higher than it should be and by the time it dawned on me, there was no moving them. I can’t blame Italeri and the passing of time entirely though. The walkway ones have been really awful, ill-fitting and that is before they fragmented as I tried to position them.
So they are quite thick, yet also prone to disintegrating.
After all, they have been sat in the box (mostly it in sheds and attics) for 26 years and I doubt they were great even in 1994. The Xtradecals for the serial and OEU were ok, but not surprisingly the Italeri decals for insignia and stenciling have been a nightmare. So the decaling has been going on for a good few days now (on and off) and it's not been plain sailing. It certainly wasn't finished by the weekend as I'd predicted.
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