Lord Riot Posted February 7 Posted February 7 This Venom was delivered to the RAF in May 1955 and served its whole career with the RAF’s 2nd Tactical Air Force in Germany with number 11 squadron. Following the short-sighted Sandys defence cuts this and most German-based Venoms were withdrawn from service with unseemly haste by the end of 1957. The type soldiered on with the RAF in the Far East until the early 1960s, however. After a fiddly start to the cockpit and nose wheel bay, the kit actually became a joy to build once I realised the instructions are more for guidance rather than accuracy! A couple of the parts are misnumbered in the instructions too, including the tail boom halves. It’s worth dry-fitting all parts first as many of the tabs are too wide for their slots. However, apart from the tail boom joins under the wings, it didn’t really need much filler, fitting together quite well. The paint was all from rattle cans; gloss dark green, dark sea grey with PRU blue undersides and satin black tip tanks. Decals are all oob except I added a few extra stencils from a spare Vampire decal sheet. This is the photo I used for inspiration, from Roger Lindsay’s superb ‘Cold War Shield’ volume II. All comments and suggestions always welcome! 50s flypast. 36 5
keefr22 Posted February 7 Posted February 7 That's a lovely build! The paint looks great, what make of rattle cans did you use? Cracking Venom! Keith 1
keith in the uk Posted February 7 Posted February 7 Lovely , that sir is a fine looking Venom . great job 1
Dennis_C Posted February 7 Posted February 7 It's an excellent Venom! A PRU blue Venom is really looking different next to its silver counterparts on the flypast view This 1/48 Mikromir model and their 1/72 model issued under AccsGB brand really closed a huge gap. I got the 1/72 version and found it's a wonderful kit too. https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235149248-de-havilland-venom-fb4-black-and-yellow-stripes-172-accsgb-kit/ 2 1
franky boy Posted February 7 Posted February 7 Great build! I’ve enjoyed following along with your build and will definitely be plugging a Venom shaped hole with a Micro Mir kit soon. Thanks James 1
Lord Riot Posted February 7 Author Posted February 7 Thank you gents! @keefr22 I just found them online, I seem to use different ones each time! The green and grey are from Gordon’s … … and the blue is from Autocarpaint. 1 1
Phoenix44 Posted February 8 Posted February 8 Very nice! Great how the camoflage pattern for the two is identical! 1
SAT69 Posted February 9 Posted February 9 Got to love a well built clean model. Yours is wonderful. 1
Bedders Posted February 9 Posted February 9 Very nice indeed. And excellent inspiration for me to dust my 1/72 version of this... Justin 1
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