Hi all I recently got lucky and picked up the extremely rare FROG Avro Vulcan B.MK.1.
It is the only Vulcan B1 ever Kitted. The lindberg is not very accurate and more reflects the 1st Prototype.
The FROG however for its time is pretty darn accurate. It has a few issues. The tail fin cap needs rescribing a little lower. The radome although right in style its a little miss shapen. But a better attempt than airfix's proposed radome line.
For its time an amazing kit. It is from the early 60s I believe and was made from the original plans (say's so on the box)
It even has quite finely recessed panel lines.
It is an interesting item as it is totally different to the B2 the stance of the wheels gives it a taller nose up look. Makes it look very imposing and looks like shes flying stood still.
The wing is also much smaller more flat at the back and has a cute subtle kink still being very pyramid like and It is this breed of Vulcan that earned them the nick name "Tin Triangle" Initial B1s were silver before the pre anti flash standard white scheme.
I am chuffed to bits with this as you can imagine and whoever build it did a darn good job. I notice they started to mod the intakes more on that later lets look at what we have to play with.
This is gonna be a challenge I need to scratch the intakes ...... YIKES !
Cheers Rob