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Frog Sea Vixen


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I recently 'rescued' my part built Frog Sea Vixen from my shelf of doom.

I understand it's most obvious fault is the 'too short' forward fuselage.  As I've yet to add the radome (suitably counterweighted) I would hope to correct this by adding a suitable spacer.  Could anyone advise how much this should be and also any corresponding increase in diameter of the rear part of the radome.

Bring on the putty.

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Can't remember if it deals with the length as such, but there's some related info in this thread.

 

 

Edit, on the first page of that thread is a link to a Frog/Revell Vixen build, and covers exactly what you are after,

https://designer.home.xs4all.nl/models/faa/faa-seavixen.htm

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56 minutes ago, 71chally said:

I find it a pretty good kit for it's time, a little work can bring round great results.  It's certainly  a better canvass to start with than some of the modern offerings.

Indeed, I found it a great build.Minimal filling,sanding and suchlike. I think I extended the fuselage by 4-5 mm,but I couldn't be sure. Didn't seem to make much difference!

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It's a good kit really, some of the complex curvature is iffy around the engines but as has been daid different, but no worse than some of the more modern kits> Hopefully Airfix will scale down their superb 48th scale version. That is a fantastic kit!

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