HT Model Magazine

Panavia Tornado book

Product # 908  Produced by Marcus Fulber, Peter Novorolnik and Jozef And'al

Product Article by Steve Bamford in 2005

 

 

 

This softcover book from HT Model Magazine is devoted to the Panavia Tornado IDS, ECR, Gr Mk1, Gr Mk4.  This is  a soft cover book made from heavy weight glossy magazine paper, so it will hold up well to continued use.  The cover....(although a soft cover) is made from thick glossy paper and will hold together well.  The book is produced in Slovakia, so it is written in the Slovak language and comes with 2 pages in English to

translate the main introduction text of the book, but the true beauty and value of this book is it's detailed walkaround photos and side profile artwork images. 

The Panavia Tornado was built by a German, British and Italian joint venture that dates back to 1965 and the final 2 seat version was completed in 1972.  This book has a large selection of photos......15 B&W photos and 374colour glossy photos.  There are also 35 beautifully done colour profiles of various British, German and Italian Tornados......I've included one colour profile below to give you a feel.  The photos in this book focus on most if not all the detail areas that modellers are obsessed with.  Lots of colour photos of cockpit, ejection seat, engine (in and out of aircraft) and engine plumbing, intake ducts, flying surfaces, avionic bays, landing gear and landing gear bays, radar bay, fuel probe, fuel drop tanks and weapons loads and much more.  You also get photos of the complete Tornado in various paint schemes and close up shots of the most if not all of the airframe seems like the whole airframe is covered).  This book is very complete.

The 35 colour profiles are single side views with the large selection showing the 4 views of camo paint schemes used by various airforces at different points in history.  Below I've include a tiny selection of some of the pages....out of respect to the producers of this fine book, I am not providing larger scans.

Cockpit photos Avionic bay photos colour Engine photos Colour profiles  paint scheme photos

35 different colour profiles featured in this book

Helpful engine, avionics bay, cockpit and other detail photos....all in colour.

This book is a super detailers dream.

I'm quite impressed with the quality of this book and I look forward to other editions from this company.  I recommend this book to all modellers planning on building a Tornado and especially to modellers planning on building a super detailed Tornado.  I am quite pleased to add this book to my library.....it will prove to be a very helpful book in my reference library.  Special thanks to the folks at HT Model Magazine for the review sample and bringing this book to my attention.  

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Steve

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford