Finally! There’s a lot of work to get this model ready for the paint shop, but I’m finally here. I realized Italeri had made a mistake on the anniversary scheme I intended to build (the outline of the Tornado on the fin should be steel gray, not gold as in the kit) so I switched gears and set up to paint the No. 617 Squadron Tornado. The Duke Hawkins book had an excellent picture of the airframe included on Italeri’s decal sheet that showed some panels a bit darker than the overall airframe. I painted those panels Tamiya ocean gray (No. XF-82). They’ll be masked prior to the painting of the main airframe color.