Vulcan B2 - 1/144 GWH+Shelf Oddity

[donalyah00]

Hello,

 

This is my rendition of the early Vulcan B2 XH556 depicted as in No.230 OCU Finningley, ca 1962. The pic of the original is shown below.

 

The Pit-Road/GWH kit and excellent Fundekals decal set inspired me to tackle the Vulcan subject. To portray the early B2 airframe the kit had to be backdated a bit - the nose cone and a tail-tip antennaes as well as in-flight refuelling probe had to be removed. Hopefully the coming GWH Blue Steel release will make things easier. The by-product of this build is the ShelfOddity PE set. MrColor GX Cool White and GX100 Super Clear III lacquers, which allowed for easy surface polishing, made the painting a relatively straightforward task. Finally – a big thank you to Leszek lejgo_inc for taking the photos. The mind-boggling task of preparing the final pics was my share.  

 

Beginning of 1960s, RAF Finningley. Waiting for the sunrise.

 

The overall view.

 

The bottom side – airframe from 230 OCU depicted here just started getting dirty.

 

A couple of details. 

Thanks for viewing and best regards, Marek

Edited December 28, 2018 by donalyah00
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[dnl42]

Wow! That's outstanding work!

 

The photography is also quite execellent!

[trickydicky210]

Marek

 

thanks for sharing your fantastic build, the details look stunning 

 

cheers Rich

[Andwil]

Superb Vulcan, congratulations on a great job.

 

AW

[MartinSK]

Excellent and very clean job! Hard to believe it is 1:144 scale.

[Vultures1]

Superb Vulcan!  I agree with @MartinSK, it looks to be to a much larger scale than 1/144.  Very well done

 

Great photography too

[Whitewolf]

That is a superb build! 

[FatFlyHalf]

How did you do that?  Superb.

[pinky coffeeboat]

Lovely thank you for sharing. 

 

Jeff

[WildeSau75]

Lovely build of an iconic - the paintjob is very convincing.

 

Cheers,

Michael

[Mark4700]

OMG what a Vulcan. Superb. I had to scroll back up to the first couple of photographs, I thought they were of a real Vulcan. Excellent photographs too.  

 

I’d love to see what you could do with the Airfix 1/72 kit 

[spaddad]

orsum

[canberraman]

Bravo! An excellent early Vulcan, beautifully built and finished. As others have said, that's an awful lot of detail for a 1/144th model - well done indeed.

 

Mark

[Lejgo_inc]

While this model has many outstanding features, my favourite is the gloss finish, which convincingly captures the vibe of Vulcans seen on reference photos - all this in unforgiving environment of 144th scale.

[Martian]

Some very atmospheric shots there! 

 

Martian 👽

[ajmm]

Outstanding. 

[ijs302]

stunning just stunning i am just blown away , and 1/144 as well 

[gazza l]

Wow! That's some seriously good modelling... can't believe it's 1/144 scale.

 

gazza l

[Buzby061]

An excellent replica of one of Avro’s finest.

 

Pete

Edited December 29, 2018 by Buzby061

[FAAMAN]

Brilliant Tin Triangle, outstanding finish

[Uncle Pete]

That's a belter.  That much detail in 144, even on a big plane, is not for the faint-hearted.  I would have assumed it was 72 or bigger if you hadn't mentioned the scale.

 

[Retired Bob]

I agree with all the other comments, brilliant job of an iconic aircraft, come on Airfix give us a 21st century version in 1/72.

 

Bob

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Most Impressive work  .. Especially considering the size.

[JeffreyK]

To echo the others: absolutely stunning work! One of the best Vulcan I've seen, irrespective of scale.

 

J

[exdraken]

Absolutely great looking and worthy of the subject!

Super photos as well!!!