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I've been working on this on and off for the last few months, and have managed to get it finished today. This is the Airways vacform Vickers VC-10 in 1/72nd scale, and has been finished as a C1K of 101 Squadron in the special 90th Anniversary 'black tail' scheme. Decals came from Two-Six and were superb, and I sourced a set of white metal landing gear from Magna to replace the rather basic kit parts. Paints were Xtracolour enamels and Humbrol matt varnish from a rattle can. All in all, a straight-forward and trouble free build. A full WIP thread can be found here: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234936477-172nd-scale-vickers-vc-10-c1k-finished/ Here are the photos of the completed model: I modified some 1/144th scale Rolls-Royce RB211 intakes and fans, which after some minor modifications worked well for the RR Conways: The flight-deck windows were the toughest part - after scratch-building the interior I made a framework for the clear acetate glass panels to be inserted: I'm glad to have this beautiful aircraft to add to my collection in 1/72nd scale, and now that the RAF are phasing out their last few this is my own personal tribute to what I think is one of the most graceful aircraft to take to the skies. So, come on Airfix... you know you want to! Tom
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If you want to build a VC-10 in 1/72nd scale there are currently three options: 1) Magna's resin kit, 2) Anigrand's resin kit, and 3) Airways' vacform. Seeing as I don't get on well with resin kits and find vacs much easier to work with, I'm going for the Airways kit to built this iconic beauty. These kits are hard to find nowadays - this one popped up on ebay a while back, and having missed out on one previously I was determined to land this one... in the end I ended up paying around £50 for it. When you consider the retail prices of both the Magna and Anigrand kits, I thought this a pretty good price - after all it is a lot of plastic. The box: Inside there are two large sheets of plastic, containing all the components to build VC-10 C1 and K2 versions: Surface detail is good, with nicely engraved panel detail: There is a comprehensive set of plans and a decal set, which is sadly now showing its age: There were no transparencies with this kit (there were when first released but this set had been lost) so I contacted Magna who kindly supplied me with two of their lovely vacform cockpits, as well as a white metal/resin set of landing gear. These will be a vast improvement over the kit parts which are the black 'stalks' seen below the transparencies in this picture: Due to the kit decals being past their best, I bought new a set from TwoSix for 101 Squadron VC-10s, including the rather striking black-tailed 90th Anniversary scheme for XV105: Eventually, she'll hopefully look like this: http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK---Air/Vickers-VC10-C1K/1306434/&sid=51ed78c73551a971fb6b63f84f645181 The first job (and perhaps the most tedious) will be gutting out the cabin windows I'll keep you posted... Tom
