Pin Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Once I decided to build The Trident and bought old Airfix kit on eBay, but it happened to be incomplete. After I contacted the seller he sent me another, this time complete kit so I ended up with 1.1/2 kits of Trident. I have started building it as per https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235016958-1144-airfix-hawker-siddley-trident-hs-dh but it ended on the shelf of doom. Recently I rediscovered the box with parts, sanding here, rescribing there and all of a sudden I found myself in full steam ahead Trident building mode again, so the pictures will soon follow in the thread mentioned. I thought 'what could I do with remaining half of the kit, I have a body but no wings, engines or stabiliser. So the idea came up that immediately started to being realised. The legend so far, I will polish it later: during the development of Trident 3 there was an attempt to avoid installing of boost engine, one of possible ways to solve the problem was forward swept wing configuration that allowed higher takeoff angles of attack. One of Trident 1Cs was modified and took to the sky. The results of trials were very promising until 12th flight when the test article crashed during landing (no fatalities). The investigation has shown that the reason of the crash was torsional fatigue of the wing roots. the problem that was not solvable that time. Eventually 4th 'boost' engine was installed to what eventually become Trident 3. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme H Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 A lot of work making those wings thicker at the now front, and really thin in what was the leading edge, but just like your avatar, go for it 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pin Posted July 16, 2018 Author Share Posted July 16, 2018 Not too much, especially with a good big rasper. In fact, it is done already, I just haven't made any pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pin Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 Engines and stabiliser are copied in resin 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azgaron Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Nice! A bit different take on that plane! Håkan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplasticsurgeon Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 On 7/16/2018 at 9:48 AM, Pin said: I thought 'what could I do with remaining half of the kit, I have a body but no wings, engines or stabiliser. You could build a model of Jet Age Trident nose, it got BA scheme on the other side. But the FSW is a better idea, here's one that I prepared earlier. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pin Posted May 28, 2020 Author Share Posted May 28, 2020 Sudden stike of inspiration 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAT69 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Very imaginative! Looking forward to seeing the finished product! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pin Posted June 6, 2020 Author Share Posted June 6, 2020 Time to reveal the livery. And it is a viking! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard E Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 That's different: a design that wouldn't look out of place in Gerry Anderson's world of Thunderbirds and Supermarionation ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheyJammedKenny! Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 Wow! That's something you don't see every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 Nice job Alexy, looks like something out of Thunderbirds or Captain Scarlet! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pin Posted June 14, 2020 Author Share Posted June 14, 2020 Trouble Luckily, the decal I used also has "Airlines" besides "Scandinavian", but in white, so I borrowed white "n". Alternative would be to name the company "Scandinavia" but I was not able to move the decal With its older unfreaky brother Kit's landing gear is pretty much unusable, need to scratch build the legs. Front leg on 1C is properly offset, FSW has more conventional, boring center line nose leg 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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