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  1. Hi all, thought I'd post a model that I've only just finished, (it needed the correct serial font). It's been to a few shows now and managed to grab a fair bit of attention, due, in part, to the exotic colour scheme. This is the beautiful Handley-Page HP80, which, of course, went on to become the Victor, in operational service. This is the second prototype, WB775, as she appeared at the 1955 SBAC Farnborough show, resplendent in its natty cerulean blue colour scheme, specially applied for the event. Things were highly competitive at the time and your product had to stand out, hence the plethora of colourful schemes seen at the shows. The model started life as a Lindberg Victor B.1 that I picked up for £5 in a bargain bin at a show. Anyone who has had a go at building one will know just what an 'orrible little thing it is with its gimmicky 'moving' control surfaces, thick wings and overscale undercarriage. It's also something of a hybrid, having the prototype's shorter forward fuselage, short tailcone and revised cockpit glazing, along with the B.1's tail fin and HP.80 tailplane. The wings are overly thick with incorrectly shaped outer sections, the intakes are too deep, (a feature of most early V-Bomber kits to be fair) and the fin too deep in chord. Being a devout fan of the Victor, it became a labour of love to get the thing looking anything close to the actual aircraft, but persistence payed off. Folks tend to know about the earlier black and silver scheme but not so much the blue.... What needed to be done...... well, the wings and tail planes were thinned down considerably, strengthening strips being added to the upper surfaces of the wings, the fin height needed to be extended and reshaped, in the end I just removed the fin from the fuselage and scratch built the whole thing from plastic card, adding the distinctive cooling duct at the same time. I decided that the tail planes also needed replacing and so were scratch built from card and counter balances added to the tips, using fine Milliput. The intakes were rebuilt using more Milliput, water and a mix of micro files before being smoothed off with Micro-Mesh, the exhausts were removed and replaced with Albion Alloys ali tubing, cockpit glazing altered to match the prototype's style, bomb aimers glazing cut out and treated to Clearfix, metal nose pitot added, the NACA ducts were enlarged and reshaped and the large cooling duct added to the base of the fin, a characteristic feature of the HP80. Finally the wing tip pitots were replaced with Master metal items. Decals came from the V-Bomber spares box and serials printed by a friend. Finding the right shade of blue was interesting, in the end I went with Halfords Pastel Blue acrylic auto paint which closely matched the images and video footage I have. This was decanted and degassed before being fired through my Iwata CM-SB 2, at around 15psi, in several light mists to build up the gloss, finally the finish was polished with 13,000 grade Micro-Mesh cloth and remove any blemishes, plus of course copious amounts of elbow grease ! The stand comes courtesy of a 1/24th Airfix Harrier kit. (I modified it so that It can be fitted the other way around as well to add more visual interest). The model was finished for our Bomber Command SIG, as part of the V-Force section, (Bomber Command Development Unit) and grabs quite a bit of interest at shows...you don't see many blue Victors around! Now for a 1/72nd scale version ! Hope you like it, Melchie... How the blue appears in old black and white photos....
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