HMS Victorious 1/600 Airfix with Atlantic Models PE

[HMS Thunderbolt]

This is the HMS Victorious in 1/600 scale from the Airfix Classics range that has been upgraded with the Atlantic Models PE kit. The model was all brush painted with acrylics, mostly Humbrol but some Revell and Vallejo too.

 

The physical layout of the ship with the atlantic highway etc. is as she looked in the late '60s just before she was scrapped. I did the deck in the colours it was at the start of the '60s because I didn't need to do any helpicopter landing circles this way, I only had straight lines available so doing multiple circles was going to be too difficult. The PE sets I used were the 1/600 HMS Victorious detail set and the 1/600 HMS Victorious Airwing set. (ATEM60016 & 60017).

 

I didn't make all the parts as per the PE instructions because I've been working on the kit so long I just grew fed up with it, and I didn't have the plasticard needed to do tasks like remake all the life rafts. I will at some point return and make the x6 Sea Vixens and x6 tugs once I've taken a break and worked on a new project for a bit. The four planes that make up the current airwing are Supermarine Scimitars.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for looking

Edited August 17, 2021 by HMS Thunderbolt

[PF Naughton]

Hi,

Your build looks great.  The detailing that you added really brings the kit to life.

Pat

[canberra kid]

Excellent looking build! I love the extra detail, it really brings the model to life. Very nice paint work too.

John

[TonyW]

Very tidy indeed. The extras have made a huge difference to the build.

[Dancona]

Wonderful stuff, you have certainly brought the rather tired Airfix offering  up to scratch, I can tell the amount of work it has taken to do it, and the result looks terrific, hard to believe its 1/600 !

There can never be enough Vics 😁

 

Cheers

 

David

[bootneck]

That is a good looking model and very nicely finished.   I have the kit and Atlantic Models etch sets, just waiting for me to finish another build, I had to get it just out of childish nostalgia!

 

I wrote to Airfix back in my schooldays, about the Victorious, and expained how I had learned about aircraft carriers from my encyclopedia. They sent me a parcel with a nice letter and the Victorious kit plus their 'new' HMS Tiger model.  It sounds a bit cheesy now but I was very serious about their ships models back then.

 

Mike

[stevej60]

Superb job on the old girl,love it!

[F-32]

Lovely job, looks really good

[Bertie McBoatface]

Very clean and tidy build.

[HMS Thunderbolt]

Thank you very much for all the kind words, the extra detailing was definitely worth it.

 

@Dancona You absolutely can't have too many Vics 😆 I have been following your 1/200 scale build thread for a while, I'm really excited to see it finished!

 

@bootneck You could always try it again, see what you get off them this time haha

[Adm Lord De Univers]

Very nice build and paint job, and that the pe set really does brings her to life. You've done an amazing job on what is an old kit and that mast alone is an excellent bit of pe work that I could not replicate.

 

I'm off to write to Airfix too before @bootneck gets 'my' free kits again!

 

David

[Chewbacca]

Excellent work on what really s a very tired and clunky kit!