The PANAVIA Tornado was the RAF’s standard attack bomber from the early eighties until just a few years ago, serving across the World and in combat and proving itself to be one of the finest of Cold War military aircraft. Many kits have been issued of the type, including three 1/32 kits. The initial Revell kit was released in 1985 and was very basic for a kit of its size. This was replaced by an all-new and far better detailed tooling in 1996, one that has been re-released at least 8 times since, including a Revell-Monogram boxing in the US. This has been supplemented since 2020 by a new-tool kit of the GR.4 from Italeri.

The Tornado GR.1 was a sophisticated aircraft and as such was festooned by a large variety of antennas and aerials for its multitude of electronic gizmos. The ones in the kit are rather thick and not always correctly shaped. This new set from Quickboost by Aires solves these issues.

There are ten resin cast parts that replace 6 types of aerial antenna including the following:

• ARI 23266 Tacan
• ARI 23268 V/UHF Radio & Homer
• ARI 23275 IFF/SSR

There are also two pitots and two unidentified aerials. All are cast very nicely and are direct replacements for kit parts as directed by QB – being resin, their fidelity is better than the plastic parts they replace, and they will make a definite improvement to my Revell kit. Incidentally, QB also provides a set of antenna specifically for the Italeri kit, QB32323, which judging from photos, is basically identical to this set. Recommended! My thanks to Aires for providing the review sample.