Sea Vixen Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 I grew up in a house a stones throw from the north end of the runway at Hatfield. I watched the maiden flight of every Trident 3b with my late father. A wonderful place that site was, so sad to see it disappear completely. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex1978 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Great job on that Trident.I have one from VEB Plasticart but thats a Trident 1. Never had an F-Resin kit before,might try that one for a start Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Lovely rendition. I've always had a soft spot for the Trident. They were very familiar at Dublin. In my plane spotting days I think I logged the entire Series 1,2 and 3 fleets that remained in service from 1972 to 85. I did manage to get a flight in one, a Series 2 in 1981 on a flight between Heathrow and Dublin. It was a very windy day at Dublin and the Trident wallowed all over the place on final approach. As for facing backwards on an airliner, I've done that a couple of times. Once on a Dan Air Super 1-11 and again on a Braniff 727-200. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skodadriver Posted December 8, 2014 Author Share Posted December 8, 2014 Great job on that Trident.I have one from VEB Plasticart but thats a Trident 1. Never had an F-Resin kit before,might try that one for a start Thanks Alex. I'm a great fan of F-RSIN but limited run injection moulding has its limitations and you must understand that their kits need a lot more work than Revell or Zvezda. Anybody who expects to shake the box and have an F-RSIN kit fall together is going to be very disappointed. On the other hand F-RSIN will give you an accurate basis and if you put in the work you should be rewarded with a good model. The Trident was great fun and not particularly difficult but it did need care to ensure, for example, that leading and trailing edges were up to standard. Probably the trickiest part of the build, strangely enough, was the horizontal tailplane. The two halves were only an approximate match and required an evening's worth of fettling to get right. Not a big deal but a good illustration of the sort of work you may have to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Brilliant model! Top work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stringbag Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Lovely model nicely finished. I have one languishing in the part built pile which I must get finished at some point. Must have missed this one earlier so sorry I'm a bit late. Chris. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelter Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Your T3 looks great - my dad flew 1,2s and 3's for BEA through to the BA days so I was lucky enough o spend a lot of my childhood weekends on the flight deck jump seat. I have this kit on the shelf along with the Airfix T1 - very inspired to build mine now thanks for posting such wonderful work from a time gone by 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Skodadriver..... how LOVELY SHE LOOKS Brings back nostalgic memories for those that saw it when they were younger.. SHE IS PRETTY SLEEK !! thank you HOUSTON 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garryrussell Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 You asked for constructive criticism...OK here goes. You need to see a doctor and pop into Specsavers while you are about it....if you think there is anything wrong with this model That is a superb Trident. A faultless rendition an if I had made that I would be proud Yes F-RSIN are no shake and bake but with some work this is what you get. I can only echo the praise given above. Personally I prefer something like this rather than the put together in an evening with no gaps. You put something of yourself in it. Nice Job 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roof Rat Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Very nice, even SWMBO likes it (back in the day she use to be cabin crew on Tridents) RR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pte1643 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Great Job... I'm looking at one of these myself. Only one piece of very minor criticism... That's NOWHERE near dirty enough for a Trident... They were always filthy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelter Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 I had to drop back in for another gawp at your superb Trident - looks even better second time round 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skodadriver Posted March 27, 2015 Author Share Posted March 27, 2015 Thanks everybody. I thought this thread had gone quiet! Pte 1643 - see post 15. I did swither (for non-Scots that means have a debate with myself) about weathering but eventually decided to keep it minimal. Every Trident must have been clean at one point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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