The Tornado was well represented in the static display at RIAT 2018. The RAF (perhaps for the last time) brought two GR4s, ZA543 and ZA588. The Luftwaffe also brought two aircraft, and IDS and an ECR. The Italian Air Force brought one an IDS which fills a gap in our almost complete collection of walk around galleries.

​No special schemes this year, but the ECR did have a few paw prints from a tiger meet on its fuel tank.

The fuel tanks page is finished. Alongside that a few pages covering weapons are back:

• Terma Pod
• Skyflash
• WE.117 Nuclear Bomb

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Walk around image galleries will be added to the site soon. The Luftwaffe Tornado is interesting for anyone who builds Revels 1/32nd scale kit as it seems to have an uncompressed nose undercarriage oleo strut.

After visiting Bruntingthorpe on a Cold War Jets Open Day, the SIG is pleased to present a walk around of ZA326, a truly unique and very important airframe.

It was fantastic to meet everyone involved with The Panavia Tornado Preservation Group and I'd like to thank them for the chat and warm welcome. If any SIG members or website visitors are keen to support the preservation of ZA326 please do visit their website and donate a penny or two.

The aircraft is essentially ready for a taxi run, but there are two 'small' components missing. If anyone happens to have some Turbo Union RB199's........

I look forward to following ZA326's progress.

For additional images, there are many, many interesting pictures on their Flickr photo stream

Regular visitors to the site will be familiar with the build. For those that aren't, there are no decals on this model. A truly amazing build.

For a look inside the box of Italeri's latest release (rebox of there old IDS kit) pop over to our facebook page. Andy Hardwick will be building the kit as part of our IPMS SMW 2017 display.