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Hi Trevor, I didn’t ask, but they reply on Facebook pretty sharpish if you want to ask. I only asked for the bits to make PA474 Cheers, WV908

Current thing being chucked around on Facebook is that it’s from Kittyhawk. Cheers, WV908

Afternoon all, I’ve just had it confirmed that the first release, as well as having an optional fully clear fuselage will (contrary to the test shots) have two canopy blisters and will have both needle and paddle blade props, allowing us to build early or late B.I’s and B.III’s - Treaded mainwheels will not be included as they are post war so I hope someone in the aftermarket business has those in planning somewhere..... Cheers, WV908

Anyway, now I’m back from Coningsby and have time to look through my photos..... I hope you’ll like these / find them useful. All of ZA357 on 6th August at DSAE Cosford; It was a bit of a rush around so this was everything I got of her (if you look very closely there are four Tonkas in the second shot) Cheers, WV908

Hi Rob, no problem. I saw this topic this morning and ironically and luckily enough, ZA357’s was the only Tonka rear cockpit I photographed yesterday. Considering I wanted photos of a GR.4 office (both GR.4’s were out of bounds) how odd but also convenient haha as it benefits you and I’ve snapped one of the rarer types of tub. F.2 is already ticked off the list luckily. Cheers, WV908

A bit late to the party, but I think I just might be able to help. This is the rear cockpit of the aircraft in question at Cosford yesterday. This was the best I could get without climbing off the platform and onto the intake haha; Cheers, WV908

I’ll be keeping an eye of interest on this one too. The Stearman is the first and at present only aircraft I’ve flown - NC67412 out of FOF in Polk City, Florida. I intend on picking up the Revell kit at some point to model her so i’m hoping you don’t find too many pitfalls in your build. Cheers, WV908

There are only actually four - the three you mention at the FAA, IWM and RAF museums respectively (ZD433, ZD461 and ZG477) plus ZD465 at Cosford which is the ex-Gosport / Wittering bird. The numbers don't look as bad when you throw GR.7's into the mix - ZD318 and ZD469 reside at Wittering, not forgetting ZD462 at Malmesbury and ZG509 on a long term stay with Everett Aero. There's also ZG478, or what's left of it's burnt out fuselage at Sproughton - but I guess it is still a GR.9 Cheers, WV908

The Victor is a bit more complex in that you can’t just change the intakes between B1 and B2 - about the inner 12 feet of each wing is different. Message inbound Cheers, WV908

The only progress report out there on the Sanger kit is from a few years ago quoting it as nearly finished, along with a chunk of work being done on the masters of the Victor (something else I may be thick enough to try and do in 1/48). Beyond that there’s no other info out there. The prototype conversion set would consist of; A plug for the bomb aimer’s blister Intakes Leading edges Tail cone Tail fillet gap filler Exhausts With regards to size, I can comfortably fit a 1/72 Vulcan cockpit with canopy fitted inside the 1/48 nose Cheers, Joe / WV908

It looks like the resin effort is a bit easier than printing one from scratch, as the shape of everything on the nose changes constantly - very much still looking for details, but doing these bits won't stop me buying the Sanger kit, mainly because it'll be a lot finer. My main effort is to create prototype and B.1 bits to convert this or the old aeroclub. It just has the quirky bonus of having to design the whole thing to make sure the bits are right. I'll start a WIP so there's no thread drift anywhere else. It'll be interesting to hear from the people who've read this, just how many have contacted sanger. As a quick aside, with now having the bare bones cockpit structure printed i'm realizing just how big a 1/48 Vulcan is! Cheers, WV908

Evening all, A question about Vulcan intakes. I’m in the process of designing some 1/48 Vulcan bits for a long term project, some simple no thrills home printed 3D parts, in other words they’ll want a bit of filler primer or a long session with sanding sticks to make useful. Now this is for one of two reasons / options; To be used as detail / conversion parts for the Aeroclub kit and, if it gets passed to production, Sanger kit. To be used as the basis for a home brew series of 1/48 Vulcans with the nose, tail, leading edges and landing gear etc printed and all the large flat bits scratch built. The first question is a quick one - did the prototypes have kitted out / detachable radomes akin to the production models? Second question is complex and regards the intakes. Can anyone detail out how many types of intakes there were for the Vulcans? As I understand it, the prototypes were both the same, the B1’s used a slightly larger opening and then the B2’s had two different even larger openings, with earlier aircraft like XH558 having the smaller of the two. I’m really struggling with drawings / photos that distinguish the differences in the B.2 intakes and if there were any changes with the B.1’s To answer a few questions that a few may have after reading this, yes if the parts do print well, I’ll put a list up somewhere of the bits designed and make them available. But i don’t want anyone to expect some crisp resin part to arrive - you’ll get a comparatively rough lump as an aid to scratch building. Yes i’m looking at doing the basic cockpit structure, payload bay and separate radome and bay with interior for anyone who wants base parts to spruce up the Aeroclub B.2 - including K.2 bits and tank ends, so any drawings or photos of these bits are very much appreciated! Cheers, WV908

Frankie has beaten me to it, but yeah that’s the current website. Regarding the 1/48 resin jobbie, there’s only a handful of photos of the kit and absolutely no proof anywhere on the internet that anyone has bought one. The shape does look a bit off too. Cheers, WV908

£600? Wowza! Going on the Sanger B-52 at £125 I’m hoping this will be around the same / just less / just South of £100. If it comes in around £80 then i’ll definitely have two! Cheers, WV908

Hi Uncle Uncool, Cheers for clearing that up, I keep threatening to invest in one of those tools or similar. Depending on the price I may end up putting my name down for two Vulcans, but it’s one for now. Depends if SWMBO will let me mount one vertically on the Nursery wall as I don’t have display room for two either haha EDIT: If it’s a lad I’ve been given the go ahead 😂 Cheers, WV908

Whoops just realised I forgot to post the comparison photos (shuffles away) - but it looks like they are not needed! I too fitted the new exhausts with the fuselage already closed up so know your pain, although I resorted to attacking the resin with a multitude of sharp and abrasive things to get it to fit. You’re already about as far with yours as I am with mine haha Cheers, WV908

Cheers for the clarification - I probably should have checked my own copy of that book that I forgot I had. Not like i’d forget something that was signed by Craig in front of the bleedin’ thing at Waddington years back....

Hi Uncle Uncool, I must apologise for i’m a bit confused by your comment as this is a new request on the new-ish Sanger site and is being run in parallel as a request for interest with the RB-45 and B-66 projects. From what I gather from older posts, this kit has been in the running since 2007/8 but is at the point of nearly being finished and Gerald is now looking for expressions of interest to see if it is worth finishing and putting into production. The events you mention from 2010 are sad and unfortunate and I hope your Aeroclub kit built well. I just couldn’t bring myself to pay the amount asked for that one I saw at Telford a few years ago, thus I eagerly await the Sanger kit, which going by the price of the B-52 will not be overly expensive. Cheers, WV908

Nice pic Scimitar - it goes some way to confirming my theory that XH558 never had a TFR bullet, and that the tail intake was removed during the K.2 conversion. Ced, the engine exhausts supplied with the kit are poor representations of the fat and short 300 series nozzles - the 200 series nozzles are very different; longer, slimmer and with a deflection in the outboard pipes. I’ll post a photo tonight of my WIP ‘558 with the WIP XM655, both long term rebuilds. I know you want to build it OOB, but it’s about the single biggest improvement you can make to the kit, ignoring of course the stupidly expensive seamless intakes. Cheers, WV908

Aye the Sea Hawk is a very nice little Naval bird indeed. I’ve seen Newark’s multiple times and bagged at the ones at Yeovilton, but I’ve only seen WV908 once and was lucky enough to see it fly at Waddington. Instantly became my favourite aircraft and I have the Classic Airframes kit waiting in the stash with a mish mash of decals to make her. Anyway back to the Vulcan - when I modded mine I chopped the TFR bullet off at the top of the collar and used sanding sticks. There’s plenty of plastic to work with, so you shouldn’t go through. Now I can be a plank and tell you about the most crucial bit of the build that has been in the back of my mind but just couldn’t quite place. You’ll need some Olympus 202 exhausts from freightdog for this particular bird. Cheers, WV908

Hi Ced, the TFR bullet is the lump right on the tip of the nose - the photo of XH558 you’ve provided from the walk around section shows the blank in it’s place clear as day The intake on the ECM tail is a rectangular lump that Airfix would have you attach to the top of the starboard side of the bulged ECM tail cone, just aft of the rudder. As far as I can figure from available photos, XH558 never had a TFR pod, and lost the intake during the K2 conversion as all the ECM equipment was binned off to fit the HDU. If someone can correct me on this, please do Cheers, WV908

Hi Ced, looking forward to this one. Don’t forget to remove the TFR bullet and that intake fairing on the ECM tail as XH558 has had both removed Cheers, WV908

Good evening all, As I have failed to find a current topic concerning the long awaited 1/48 Avro Vulcan vac form by Sanger, I’d like to bring it to people’s attention that there is a now a request on Sanger’s website for expressions of interest regarding the kit. Gerald has stated that the plan is to produce a run of around 100 kits as long as enough people put their names down for them. I’m not affiliated with the company but this request seems to have slipped under the radar until now. Anyone wishing to see this kit be finished and produced, please go to the website and follow the instructions Gerald has provided. I waited a small while for a reply but am now on the mailing list for the kit. Cheers, WV908

Can we convince you to do it in 1/72 too? Pretty please? My old Italeri SR.71 had a wonky nose from day one, and that wasn’t down to my rubbish construction Cheers, WV908

Ah the dihedral monster! I won’t go into detail as there’s plenty of topics already, but I think whoever designed the Revell Lanc took a look at a front on view of a Hastings and thought ‘that’ll do’ - in essence the mainplane dihedral is way too shallow. It’s a cut and shim job (no sniggering at the back for those who read that wrong) The Revell kit doesn’t have de-icers so it’s up to you if you want to build them. I’d be tempted to say your Lanc does not have the nose aerials so i’d leave those off too. For the benefit of Seahawk, the photo of the Lanc he mentioned was a bit dodgy, also MSnell’s photo has the turret in situ. MSnell you have another PM on the way Cheers, WV908