Airfix 1:72 Tornado F3 Scale Military Aircraft Gift Set Including Paint, Glue And Brushes

Mon fils de dix ans a monté sa première maquette en réalisant celle-ci. Je lui ai donné quelques conseils, mais il s'en est plutôt bien sorti.Bref, je ne vais pas vous raconter ma vie de famille, mais simplement dire que si vous n'avez jamais fait de maquette, ce genre d'avion est idéal pour débuter. La notice est assez simple, les pièces se joignent parfaitement et se collent très bien et les décalcomanies ne sont pas difficiles à poser.La boite contient la colle, les pinceaux et les peintures....Donc le cout est très faible pour tester une maquette.Le seul bémol est la qualité des peintures qui est très liquide et, de ce fait à du mal à accrocher sur les surfaces plastiques lisses. Il vaut donc mieux y passer plusieurs couches, ou acheter, pour la partie grise (la quasi totalité des pièces visibles de l'avion) une petite bombe de peinture de marque Tamya (qui vous permettra de peindre au moins trois avions).

Dreadful kit that will likely put off a first time modeller. Loads of flash and ejector pin marks, parts that are the wrong size and fit poorly. Very overpriced for a naff kit

I have just received this and have not set about constructing it yet. I bought it because I have also been building the Revell Tornado (1:72 scale version) to compare. The immediate difference, that I hadn't realised, is that it is a different version of the Tornado. The Revell one essentially recreates the Tornado in its bomber/support role with the Airfix one recreating the Tornado in its fighter role. As such the Airfix version has fewer armament options. Overall the Airfix kit has many fewer pieces and I would imaging will be much easier to construct. This version of the kit comes with paint, glue and brushes which is a plus as the Revell kits (done properly need you to buy lots of different colours of paint). That said I recently made one of the Airfix Spitfires that came with paint, etc and in order to get a more authentic finish I had to use quite number of additional colours of paint. I will write a further review once I have constructed the kit.

Another excellent kit from Airfix. As usual with a starter kit, brushes, paints and a tube of glue are included as well, which is great for beginners.However, I had some trouble with this product. Some of the sprues were torn up and I couldn't find about 4 parts. This also led me to not being able to finish the cockpit, which in turn led me to not put it in at all. I hope that this was an isolated incident.However, the rest of the kit is great and it's very good for a starting kit since it's easy to put together. Would recommend.

I wanted to use the kit to build a jet that had personal significance so I ordered a set of aftermarket decals.The kit was ok quality and came out fine.