gengriz Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 Sorry, not the superb new Airfix kit, but the much more affordable (and still OK) 1983 mould, dressed up to represent XM597 during Black Buck 5, the first of the Shrike anti-radar missions. The same aircraft undertook Black Buck 6, the only one of the Black Buck missions that actually hit its target as intended, but ended up with a broken refuelling probe, diversion to Rio and internment! The aircraft now sits outside at the Museum of Flight in East Fortune, near Edinburgh. The kit is very basic with raised panel lines and the hard thick plastic makes it a bit of a beast to build. But I got there in the end and it definitely looks like a Vulcan. Due to the current (and possibly ongoing) absence of many Humbrol enamel tins from the market, I had to use a Humbrol rattle can for the upper surface Medium Sea Grey. It worked surprisingly well for a first attempt, but sadly it did not match well with the tin of MSG I used to touch up areas such as the cockpit canopy. The Shrikes, pylons and adaptors all came from the spares box (ex Hasegawa I think). The jammer came from an old ESCI kit. I added some sprue detail in the cockpit and boxed in the access trunk in order to leave the hatch open. None of this can be seen, of course!!! ....and although I didn't use it, I couldn't resist mounting the kit's Blue Steel missile on a maintenance frame! 46 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAVY870 Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 Very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopesdaddy Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Wonderful result from the "old" vulcan kit, that thick plastic is probably why my dad's vulcan is still around after many missions flown by me in my younger years 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Laidlaw Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 That's come out really well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinChipmunkfan Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Old Vulcan or not this looks really good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maginot Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 She's a beaut! Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 That really is very smart. Like that a lot. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Lovely. I built one of those when they first came out and thought it was a decent model back then. It can be made to look very good - as you have demonstrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Superb result from the old kit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HL-10 Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 Very nice! 😃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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