Vulcanicity

Superb build, that's some very impressive masking results, and a neat job with the radome too!

Great build Dragan, cool colour scheme and done extremely well 🤘

Absolutely glorious, there's no better scheme for a Buccaneer than this one (maybe EDSG over white) and you've captured it perfectly. Love the subtle drybrush weathering on the ladder steps and grubby bombs!

Cracking build, you wouldn't know it's a vintage kit from looking at such a handsome model

Hi Bob, You assume correctly! I think I have a grip on all the differences in the pre-retrofit B.2 and have the Air Graphics conversion set, but just in case I've missed something? 1. Smaller fin root intake 2. Slightly different probe arrangement on nose tip 3. No IFR probe, tanks or "carrots" 4. Fewer intake vanes 5. No cooler intakes under engines 6. No Blue Steel cooler intake on under fuselage by bomb bay doors 7. Smooth tailcone Thanks,

Thanks all! So: it looks like there isn't some large crutch protruding round the sides of the bomb, or any kind of carrier visible above the bomb that I would have to model when attaching the YS, because the winching mechanism described so well by @Selwyn and @Retired Bob just attaches directly onto the lug/release unit on the top of the bomb and draws it up to the roof of the bay. However: the more I look at the original loading image the more convinced I am that there is a large cylindrical fuel tank in the bay forward of the bomb being loaded. The fwd bulkead is the busy looking structure behind the ground crew's middle back, not the smooth surface up and right from his face. If nothing else there should be a large retraction jack mechanism for the door there if it were the bulkhead! I take the argument that the CoG can be balanced in an aircraft like the Victor by moving fuel between tanks, and the argument that the bomb has to be on the CoG - after some head scratching I guess that as long as you seek to move/burn fuel in such a way that that its mass causes equal turning moment abount the CoG, no massive trim change when you drop the bomb even if it isn't on the CoG. Thanks for the heads-up re. the K2 kit. I'll see if anyone can spare of these tanks, as I'd like to try and replicate this fit I think!

Hiya, A long shot but does anyone have any images of how the Yellow Sun bomb was attached on the Victor bomb bay roof? The bomb has a small central lug on the top and there is a well-known shot here showing a practice round about to be hoisted by the lug into the bomb bay from above. The Air-Graphics bomb reproduces this lug and it fits perfectly onto one of five crossways structural members on the Airfix bomb bay roof - I presume these represent weapons stations on the real aircraft. If this is correct then the attachment is simple and no crutches/carrier frame is visible above the bomb. However I have seen photos of an bomb carrier beam used on the YS bomb with the Vulcan ( a rectangle with a curved top, attached to the top of the bomb and presumably winched with it upwards into the Vulcan's bomb bay), and was therefore wondering if there is a similar, more substantial beam to support the real thing in the bomb bay of the Victor? I suppose what I am getting at is whether there is any kind of additional structure that would be visible from below when the bomb is carried, and which would therefore need representing in model form. Second question: the linked photo shows what I take to be an auxiliary fuel tank in the bomb bay forward of the bomb. I can't work out which station the bomb would be attached to but presumably if this tank was carried the bomb would not be central in the bay, but some way aft. Was this tank often carried? I can't help wondering if there would be an alarming trim change when the bomb was dropped - the tank and bomb can't both be central about the CoG point! Either the aircraft pitches down when the bomb is dropped, or up, depending where the CoG is!

Glorious-top job! I especially like your NIVO mix, I think you got closer to the real thing than I did 🙂

Thanks @JWM @Elias it's directly photographed by me from the maintenance manual (AP) for the Heyford III held in the National Archives at Kew. You're welcome to make use of it! Note that the wires that connect the top of the spats to the points where the small struts join the bottom of the fuselage are crossed over. I don't think I've ever seen anyone get this correct on a Heyford build, presumably because photos of this area are so hard to find!

Cracking Hunter, nice to see a GA11 with rocket pods- was this a common fit?

Lovely work, these two look just as smart as display team mounts should do!

A real weathering masterclass 10/10!

Gorgeous Mossie, great to see a different Strike Wing scheme from the usual suspects and beautifully weathered too. Details like the overpainted fuselage code patch and the ladder really make this a stunner 😁

Ooh that's lush! There's just something about the Draken isn't there? The thing oozes charisma and you have really done it justice 👍

Thanks everyone! especially to @canberra kid, the seal of approval from the forum expert is massively appreciated after the slog I had with this build!