Valiant model from Corgi.

[BEagle]

Lurking in my inbox today was a note from Vulcan Bomber Shop XH558 (http://www.vulcanbombershop.com) advising that Corgi will be releasing a 1:144 scale model of the Vickers Valiant B Mk1 next year. It will be in anti-flash white and the featurd aircraft is XD818 of OP GRAPPLE fame.

Demand is expected to be high; however, they say that you can pre-order with a small deposit.

[grandfer]

I also understand that Airfix are releasing a 1/72 plastic kit this year of a Valiant , I don't know which mk. will be modelled though .
Cheers Grandfer :ok:

[Fareastdriver]

I would be surprised if Airfix did a Mark 2. There was only one made.

[grandfer]

Just visited the Airfix website & it now announces it will be a "B(K).1" but will not now be released until 2011 @ around the £34 mark .
Cheers , Grandfer :{

[BEagle]

Yes, but the Airfix model will be 1:72 scale - twice the size of the Corgi model!

It doesn't actually state which version Airfix will be modelling; the description in their website appears to be generic.

[GreenKnight121]

I wish someone would release a 1:72 scale Valiant B.2... and a 1:72 V.1000/VC-7!

[AndyBuckley]

Photo's of the Airfix sprue's.

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=55114&st=0

Photo's are on pages 1 & 2.

Looks like a call into Halfords and picking up a can of 'Appliance White' is called for. (it's the best way to spray white onto a large area of plastic by the way). For those contemplating the silver option 'Nissan Silver' does the same.

Rgds

Andy B.

[chiglet]

If anyone has the "Original" Frog V Bombers in 1/144, unmade, in the original boxes...I will give you a tenner each.
Mind you, I have heard a rumour [false, of course] that they could be worth over a Grand...
But I don't listen to rumours,,,,,,:ok:

[BEagle]

Weren't they in 1:96 scale rather than 1:144?

[RedhillPhil]

Yes, the Frog ones were 1:96. I built two Valiants when we (and they) were at Gaydon. I painted one white and camouflaged the other on. My anally retentive mind recalls that the aircraft was WZ 365. My mate Chris Skipp did a Victor - XA something.

[kluge]

chiglet

I've seen an old 1/96 Vulcan kit in a shop in Singapore. Can't remember manufacturer but not Revell or Frog. PM me if interested in pursuing.

[The Oberon]

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[denachtenmai]

Bit of thread drift, but I'd buy a 1/72 Shack MR2C, with the Orange Harvest spike, preferably WR 965.
I tried to convert a Lanc. to this spec. at BK in 1960/1, looked quite good.
Regards, Den.

[Fareastdriver]

Just visited the Airfix website & it now announces it will be a "B(K).1

They are going to have to put the flight refuelling pipe around the captains side of the cockpit if they are going to call it that.

[chiglet]

Sorry, got my scales mixed up. The FROG "V" Bombers were 1/96
Lincoln Models did a Victor with "removeable engine panels"

[GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU]

I tried to convert a Lanc. to this spec. at BK in 1960/1, looked quite good

Are you a masochist? With a different shape and size fuselage, Lincoln wings and broad fins and rudders, you may as well have carved it from wood. :sad:

Thread drift alert; I have 2 Lindberg, 1/96 scale straight wing Vulcan kits. I started one as the 1st prototype, 770, but lost interest 32 years ago. The nose and canopy (Section D4 in AVRO terms) are so wrong in shape and size i may as well have followed my observation on denachtenmai's shack.

I'm tempted to wait for a second hand Corgi Valiant to paint in high speed silver (I still have some in liquid form in an old salad cream jar). It will remind me of the Valiant that wrote off my Kiel kraft bandit. What a daft place to park an aeroplane. :{

[BEagle]

chiglet, I had a Lindberg Victor one Christmas:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/VictorRC.jpg

it had the 'removable engine panels' - large rectangular pieces on the upper wing surface which I suspect were a figment of Lindberg's imagination (you can see the aperture in the wing in the photo). The 'remote control' system from the 'joystick' moved piano wire in a plastic tube; the ends of the wires attached to the lower wings. Control surfaces were moved by an internal 'system of levers'..... It was a bugger to build!

Lincoln also did a Victor (in 1/148 scale):

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/VictorL.jpg

Did this have the same engine access panels? Or something more accurate.

denachtenmai, Frog did a good quality Shack in 1/72 scale, but it was a Mk3 Phase3. Perhaps it could be modified to represent an MR2C?

[GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU]

You can;

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n131/Golf_Bravo_Zulu/AVR696_3_2.jpg

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n131/Golf_Bravo_Zulu/AVR696.jpg

but there's a lot of plastic surgery needed.

[Gainesy]

Strange, I have Shack and Lanc models lurking somewhere in the loft waiting to transform into a Lincoln, maybe this winter. Haven't made a model for Donkey's years so probably involve a lot of cusssing and elastoplasts.:)
NB on that link a 1/48(?) Sea Vixen BEags? Page 2 or 3.

[S76Heavy]

With regard to FROG kits, I believe they were also sold under the name NOVO at least from the 70's onwards. Made in Russia/USSR I seem to recall..

[BEagle]

Gainesy, I had the original Frog DH110 years ago, but there was also a Sea Vixen FAW2 in 1/72 scale:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/110.jpg

The 1/48 scale Airfix Sea Vixen is due to be released this autumn.

[zetec2]

Can someone either confirm or otherwise that when the Sea Vixen originally was fitted with the extended booms forward of the leading edge that there was a variant titled "Sea Witch", I have in my notes that when carrying out tanker trials with the buddy packs/pods that the trial aircraft were called "Sea Witches" not Vixens ?, thanks, PH.

[RedhillPhil]

Didn't one of the F.A.A. squadrons have a witch as a badge painted on their aircraft? I'm sure that there's a connection there somewhere.

[Fareastdriver]

About 1971/72 Airfix came along to Odiham to look at a Puma close up for their 172nd scale model. The aircraft they chose was XW214 C@L. About a month before it was to be released they phoned up and asked whether the first models could be flown in the actual aircraft.
Unfortunately somebody had bounced 214 in NI.
They were not surprised, their Harrier had gone the same way. However we came to a compromise. XW227 had replced 214 on the squadron and had the same squadron letters. The result that on 28th March 1973 we flew it to Battesea, had a tour of the factory, a super lunch and then had a series of photographs taken that just ommitted the serial number of the aircraft. I have still got my kit somewhere, complete with its certificate of flight.

[denachtenmai]

GBZ, it was the impression I was after,not accuracy;) still looked quite good though, but not after using it for target practice with a .22 airsporter, which I had to keep in the station armoury!!
Beags, thanks for the info, but after seeing GBZ's description I think I will give the conversion a miss, life's too short.
Regards, Den.