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Hi Everyone Just like the proverbial No.36 bus, you wait ages and then 3 come along at once. So hot on the heels of HartDeco and Phone Phixers recently posted fantastic RFIs, here's my interpretation of Buccaneer XW547 as flown by 12 Squadron sometime in the mid 80s. My plan was to build something representing one those beautifully faded and dirty workhorses, and I also wanted to show off the unique shape that I really quite like; to achieve this this I may yet decide to remove the underwing stores........dunno yet. With so many options, the hardest part of this build was deciding what colour scheme, configuration, weapons etc to run with. I used parts of the Flightpath set which came with a pair of lovely Martels and so my subject had to be Martel capable; this blew my original plan for building XT273 out of the window. I was using Model Alliance sheet MA-48101 which included decals for a 237 OCU aircraft wearing the tail code 'FC' but I was planning a 12 Sqn subject. Then I stumbled across an online photo of a 12 Sqn jet coded 'CF', and a plan was hatched.......unfortunately getting to this point had taken the best part of a year. With Martels sorted, a look at stores options on the blackburn-buccaneer.co.uk website led me to a configuration carrying a CBLS pod under the stbd wing and a AN/ALQ-101 pod under the port. Sorted, all courtesy of Flightpath. The only thing is, I really like the look of the wing fuel tanks; possibly the best looking external tanks fitted to any aircraft I reckon, more of that later. A Neomega cockpit was used, a couple of bits were scratch built, some of the out-of-register decals replaced, and photos taken on my cellphone. So here it is. I hope you like it. Comments good or bad welcome as usual.....I've probably missed something as usual . Cheers Gaz As for fitting an underwing tank, showing the folding wings and airbrake, ooh and maybe another colour scheme...... Well, I have a cunning plan. To be continued !( Later.......much later.)
