Sea Vixen - riveting draw and 2" rocket pods

[Jurek Greinert]

As in title, My next project will be Sea Vixen from Airfix.  Does anyone have plans for riveting?

Secound question, any ideas for 2 " RN rocket pods? Resin or aftermarket?

Thx for answer.

Regards Jurek

[71chally]

I can't help with the plans, but personally speaking I wouldn't get rivety with this kit and to my mind Trumpeter have definitely over done the rivets on theirs.

A lot of the Sea Vixen construction used Redux bonding and the the rivets that were used were flush.  The overall appearance is pretty smooth.

[Selwyn]

The Neomega 2" pods look quite good.

 

Selwyn

[Jurek Greinert]

Hello, the second question.

Can any painting in Airfix be from stabilization and shielding missions in Africa or the Middle East?

 

[regulus]

You can see from the photo below that there are not a whole lot of traditional rivets per se, but many of the fasteners were steel screws (showing their rust) all over the airframe. And most, if not all of these were flush.  Photo by R.Sutherland.

[bzn20]

Those Csk  bolted panels for quick ish access to service and/or remove by  lifting out the engines . There are thousands of  Csk rivets for the rest of the airframe . A bolt together fast jet would weigh too much with added anchor nuts, steel bolts . Its why the rivet was invented . The wings skins are riveted as is nearly everything else from memory , there are  Snap and Mush heads down the back by the jet pipe Beaver tail and a few obscure fittings .  I know DH loved Redux bonding but I can't remember any on the skins and anyway they failed with that method with the Comet 1

I worked on a Vixen in training 1971.

Edited November 5, 2018 by bzn20