Tornado GR1

sneakymcfox

Partly inspired by PatJS's recent brilliant planes/helos and finally feeling up to it,I decided to do one of my own.
It's a Tornado GR.1 the same type that was used with great effect in operation desert storm. I especially like the swing-wing element of it.
I think at the moment I'm going to do the weapons at a later stage.

C&C very welcome

PatJS

Excellent, planes rule! As for crits, it looks like the ILS aerial isn't connected to the vertical stabilizer, and as far as I can tell the hinge fairing for the wings has a rounded back, instead of an angled one. Were you planning on making landing gear?

Also, do you think you could make some renders with less intense perspective? It's sort of hard to judge scale with these.

sneakymcfox

@PatJS.Yea I had a bit of a stupid moment there with that FOV.

About the ILS aerial it was on the mesh the shadows where just being a little funky

And some better HP render, no time to do an AO pass right now

Contrails

Some shapes seem to be off - the nose and front of the canopy are more squished in the real plane, the air intake has a little protrusion on the bottom and the tail should be swept back. The connection between the body and the wing also is the wrong shape. The fuel probe should probably be redone. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Luftwaffe_GR-4_Tornado_undergoing_maintenance_during_Cooperative_Cope_Thunder_2004.JPEG)

Are you modeling this off of blueprints?

This is a good site to get them off of (in russian but translated: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://www.airwar.ru/&ei=rsbMTPiUC8Hflgfmha3lCA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCEQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dairwar.ru%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3Dbp2%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Div ) go to drawings - post war fighters for the tornado

and this should probably help you in nailing down the details http://www.primeportal.net/hangar/bill_spidle2/tornado_gr1_zd374/

Also post up some top/side views.

Good start though and looking forward to seeing this progress