Victor B.1 intakes

[Trencher]

I got me a 1/96 Frog Victor B.1 recently (another interesting story which has got to do with a rumour of a sunken ship, a not-so-amused wife and myself getting moored by her next to that wreck in the cold and fathomless depths of the Pacific...    ).

Anyway, as the intakes of that beauty were non-existent, they had to be scratch-built. So I was wondering how the intakes on the Victor B.1 might look like. 

I know that there a a lot of pictures of the Victor B.2 (including their intakes) around, mainly due to the 1/72 Airfix one.

Can I assume that the intakes differ a lot from the Conway-powered B.2? My

 Google-fu let me down so far.

Perhaps the one or other member can point me to the right direction. Any help would be gladly appreciated.

[71chally]

The intakes on the B.1 are quite different to the B.2, more slender and with a curved upper line.

There's some good info in this thread, pages 2 & 3 particularly 

Some nice Mk.1 walkaround shots here, http://igor113.livejournal.com/647009.html

Edited April 25, 2017 by 71chally

[Trencher]

Ah, thanks for the input. The intake splitters (is that the right word?) appear to be much farther inside the wing. Were there actually 3 of them inside a B.1 intake? And how far do they extend to the inside ?

The drawings in the other thread didn't seem to show it... 

[stever219]

There's a "wall" between the intake tunnels but no splitter plates within each of the tunnels.  The "wall" separated the air stream for each engine and its continuation aft between the engines provided a firewall each engine being in its own zone.  The splitter plates were introduced progressively on the Mk. 2 to cater for the more fussy Conway.