Another 1/72 Vulcan... But a little bit different

[Adam Poultney]

So quick flashback to when I, as over enthusiastic as ever, decided to rebuild an old second hand Airfix Vulcan B2 as a Vulcan B1. This didn't exactly work... I made some cuts that were just wrong and it would have been less effort to just buy a new kit. 

 

The model just sat abandoned in a box for months, until I thought of something to do with the model, remembering a similar build on here by Rob (it's a vulcan, who else....)

This is what I did with it. First I removed the black paint, then cut the nose section off. Then the canopy and nose halves were glued back together

I have a small trolley from an Airfix 1/48 Meteor that will do for now until I find something better. I'm thinking I'll probably scratchbuild something from matchsticks or something....

The hatch needed replacing. I have a spare from the original plan to rebuild this as a B1. I think I'll paint this either in antiflash with full shade roundels or in camouflage and make it look tired and corroded. Certainly a fictional cockpit section. I guess that does open up the option to do a B1 still.

Unfortunately the model didn't have any cockpit parts. You can hardly see them anyway on the Vulcan.

 

I masked off the canopy with PVA, great for doing Vulcan canopies, and primed it in white. 

 

[Adam Poultney]

Terrible and quick splice of one image onto another just for fun. A half scrapped Vulcan

[Adam Poultney]

Sprayed and demasked

Coffee stirrers for the back of the cockpit

A wash on some of them (unfinished in this photo)

Radome painted and a little weathering

Had to do the radome twice as the black don't like the gloss white

[Adam Poultney]

Wood is finished

I've added the roundels from a set of Vulcan decals I have lying around. These ones are spares as there's two versions of this style of roundel. One with the red centre and one with it printed separately and the option for that one vulcan with the NZ roundels.

[AdrianMF]

A nice use of an old kit!

 

Regards,

Adrian

[Adam Poultney]

Now I continued with weathering. Washes all over the place and some chipping painted in. The radome was drybrushed with downwards grey streaks as this is similar to how I have seen black painted Vulcan radomes weather on real examples.

I like this side more

The underside is just as dirty as you'd expect.

No pitots because I might as well call it a Vulcan B1 since it's a fictional example

Edited November 12, 2019 by Adam Poultney

[Adam Poultney]

Ok so this build is now finished. This is one of the pictures I'll be posting up in RFI. Credit to Robvulcan for the idea which I stole from his build similar to my own.

Well, that is until I find the stand for it that I had and now lost 😕

Since the last update I have added more weathering and brushed a satin coat over the model. 

I decided against applying any stencil decals at all as I'd rather save them for a full build than use them on here.

This is a fictional example, perhaps it was painted over and then forgotten about. Perhaps the stencil markings just haven't survived the test of time. Who knows. Certainly not me 😂

Same story with any missing clear parts, they could have been damaged and removed but never replaced, leaving the places where they are supposed to be to further corrode.

Edited November 22, 2019 by Adam Poultney

[Adam Poultney]

and here it is