A little outside of my usual timeframe of models, the TSR2 is a bit special. I first saw one at Duxford about a year after she arrived and my dad filled me in as to what she was. I took this photo in about 1978 I think and she stuck in my memory.
She is XR222, a never completed pre production model. Only XR219 flew, and the only other survivor is XR220at Cosford. So when a 1/48 Contrails vacform came up at a good price I thought I would give it a go. I hadn’t built a vacform before but it would give me some practise in case I wanted to build another vacform in the future
So here she is. Not perfect by any means and I left some of the kit inaccuracies, but had a go at fixing others. The intakes, for example, got a complete rebuild.
The back end got a rebuild, with new jet pipes built in to shape around
There was no cockpit so that was scratch built with resin seats. The vacform canopy was cut to pose the canopies open
The jet pipes extend through the body and the main wheel wells and bomb bay are built around them from scratch
The undercarriage had a totally rebuild with only the wheels surviving from the kit
So so that’s her done. Not perfect but I enjoyed the build. Thanks for looking
The build thread is here