Airfix Victor
A few B.2Rs of No.139 Squadron wore the squadron badge initially, while they were still painted in anti-flash white. There is a photograph in volume 25 of the International Air Power Review of XL158 so marked, carrying a Blue Steel.
A test shot (3d print) was on display at Telford this weekend and was in the Anti Flash scheme of XL512 in 139 Sqn markings. Rumour has it that the decal options will be that aircraft plus a camouflaged one in Wittering wing markings.
It's a Victor! - Page 6 - The Rumourmonger - Britmodeller.com
It's a Victor! - Page 6 - The Rumourmonger - Britmodeller.com
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The intakes on the Victor at Telford looked incorrect, dare I say, looked a bit 'Mark One-ish'. The development engineer refused to answer my questions regarding the Mk1, one of the few 1/72 Models that is lacking IMHO. I've built nearly every Victor model going - Frog, Lindberg 1/96, Revell 1/96, Matchbox 1/72 and I still have at least five in the stash.
Come-on Airfix, make a Mk1!
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Come-on Airfix, make a Mk1!
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I'm sure the aftermarket bods will come along with some very reasonably priced resin corrections for those intakes....
Having said that, it's good to see Airfix updating some of the Cold War British kit. I'm sure I'll be building some for my customers at some point. Just got to finish their pig of a TSR.2.... Joy!
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Having said that, it's good to see Airfix updating some of the Cold War British kit. I'm sure I'll be building some for my customers at some point. Just got to finish their pig of a TSR.2.... Joy!
Guzz.
The sales spiel on their site is here:-
Airfix A12008 Handley Page Victor B.2 1:72
If you know the aircraft, I'm sure that the errors will grate. I remember the nose below the windscreens of the Hercules C Mk1 was wrong, being concave into the radome instead of the convex of the pressure hull. I would have gladly traded the Bloodhound missile complete with attendant Snow-Drop and his dog ("Stop, or I shall release my handler!") that came with it, if they had just got that bit right. All that despite the many 3D photos taken by them from all angles of a hangared aircraft at LYN.
Airfix A12008 Handley Page Victor B.2 1:72
If you know the aircraft, I'm sure that the errors will grate. I remember the nose below the windscreens of the Hercules C Mk1 was wrong, being concave into the radome instead of the convex of the pressure hull. I would have gladly traded the Bloodhound missile complete with attendant Snow-Drop and his dog ("Stop, or I shall release my handler!") that came with it, if they had just got that bit right. All that despite the many 3D photos taken by them from all angles of a hangared aircraft at LYN.
I would have gladly traded the Bloodhound missile complete with attendant Snow-Drop and his dog ("Stop, or I shall release my handler!") that came with it
Which was the biggest error in that Herc kit, seeing that RAF Bloodhound Mk 1 was gone before the RAF were even told that they were getting the aircraft. Had they put RAAF marking on the decal sheet and canned the Landrover and the guys in the battledress (plus the Snow-drop with the brain on the chain) it would have been a bit more accurate. Saying that the missile kit is full of errors as well.
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Don't know about the B2, but I seem to remember the prototype B1 is alleged to have done so in Robert Jacksons V-Bombers.
It certainly looked like a rocket ship from Flash Gordon.
It certainly looked like a rocket ship from Flash Gordon.
Not only the B1 but the K1 did it as well. Here's a link to Tony Cunnane's site where he recounts the story of going supersonic over Paris. I've provided this link in the past, but worth a read for those who haven't seen it before.
We go supersonic overhead Paris with 4 Lightnings in tow - Tony Cunnane's
Autobiography
Agreed Kitbag - an opinion shared by Nikita Kruschev's son who said it was the best looking of the Vs (quoted on a BBC TV programme about cold war jets a few years back!) Certainly prettier than those big slabby tin triangle thingies 
We go supersonic overhead Paris with 4 Lightnings in tow - Tony Cunnane's
Autobiography
It certainly looked like a rocket ship from Flash Gordon
Could anyone here ever figure out how to get the dog in the Bloodhound kit to stand up?
By the way, Mainjafad, the Bloodhound had been sold separately for several years before the C-130K came out, which is why it was the wrong variant.
By the way, Mainjafad, the Bloodhound had been sold separately for several years before the C-130K came out, which is why it was the wrong variant.
Could anyone here ever figure out how to get the dog in the Bloodhound kit to stand up
By the way, Mainjafad, the Bloodhound had been sold separately for several years before the C-130K came out, which is why it was the wrong variant.
1959 actually, and the figures were based on photos of the SAGW trials wing at North Coates when they opened their gates to the Press in October 1958.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7YVdiw1jSw
The RAAF did carry theirs in Hercs as shown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQpSEpL2R78
Airfix never did the Mk 2, which is a pity as that was in operational service from 1965 to 1991, while the Mk 1 was only actually operational from Nov 1960 to mid 1964. Plenty of Mk 2's moved by Hercs (and most of the 4 engine cargo aircraft, they even managed to get one into a Britannia once.)
The Airfix Herc I got in the late 1970s didn't have the Missile or the dog in it.
The kit I had back in 1960 was in white and came in the usual 2/- polythene bag from Woolies.
The RAFP weren't quite so gay and I don't think that they all wore those awful French onion-johnnies' berets? The dog still fell over though.
The RAFP weren't quite so gay and I don't think that they all wore those awful French onion-johnnies' berets? The dog still fell over though.
Indeed. You might say that the three crew figures seem quite heartless about it.
I don't think that they all wore those awful French onion-johnnies' berets?
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The beret wearers should have been in green denims
The RAF tradesman in the early 1960's wore green denims
The green ones returned in the mid 1980s, just around the time I started working on the mighty mutt.
Airfix have done a WWII RAF bomber support set. May be worth doing a V-Force one as well.
The green ones returned in the mid 1980s, just around the time I started working on the mighty mutt.
Airfix have done a WWII RAF bomber support set. May be worth doing a V-Force one as well.
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