Tornado altimeter?

[Jayviator]

Hello, can any Tornado pilots solve a mystery for me. I am looking for a Tornado altimeter to help complete my Tornado front panel project. I already have the radar altimeter but i need the main one. Someone has one for sale on ebay which they are claiming is a Tornado altimeter, they even provided a photo of a Tornado cockpit showing the altimeter and it is the same one as shown in their listing.
However I have being doing a lot of research about Tornado cockpits so i can make my panel as accurate as possible (it will be a GR1) and all the photos I have seen of the altimeter (apart from the 1 image that the ebay seller provided) show a different one, so did the Tornado only ever have one altimeter type or did they occasionally use another type?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PANAVIA-T...7c72%7Ciid%3A1

As you can see it is similar but not identical to this which is the altimeter i see in every other image of a Tornado cockpit

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=to...LsMIkWp66YflM:

[PAC7903]

That's a rear cockpit altimeter on ebay.

[SATCOS WHIPPING BOY]

Not a pilot...but there are images online of various cockpits and both those styles are in them. A German IDS shows the eBay version and an image of an F3 shows the one with the standby toggle switch.

[Jayviator]

Ah that is interesting thanks. I guess I just have not seen those images, perhaps they were only used in German variants. I have noticed there is sometimes some different variant of other instruments, well at least i have seen one Tornado HSI which seems slightly different.
Could you post links to images which show the ebay altimeter?
Cheers

[SATCOS WHIPPING BOY]

There you go Jayviator: Panavia Tornado IDS - Germany - Navy | Aviation Photo #1048362 | Airliners.net and https://www.airteamimages.com/panavi...177_large.html

Perhaps the eBay one is one that his Grandad took off a dead German in ze var ;-)

[ORAC]

Online German navy IDS versions shows the eBay type. Other RAF, Italian and GAF version cockpit photos I can find show the lighter coloured reset knob type.

Panavia Tornado IDS - Germany - Navy | Aviation Photo #1418988 | Airliners.net

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Germa...do-IDS/1421286

[SATCOS WHIPPING BOY]

There could also be a difference between front and rear seat styles.
This back-seater alt is similar to that one on eBay. Good luck in sorting that conundrum out. :-)
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2a/39...233f7570d9.jpg

[Jayviator]

Thanks for the help chaps. I think i will just wait and hope for a "proper" altimeter to come along, from the front cockpit of a RAF version. Got my latest part today the control column, so i just fitted the grip to the top of that.