woody37 Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 Hopefully I have inspired more to get some classics finished and posted up here ! Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafalbert Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Beautiful. I, on the other hand, will be creating sacrelidge by turning a BOAC Airfix Kit into a RAF C1.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard of Effingham Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 hmm, civil VC10, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! first aircraft i flew in way back in 1975 with BA from LHR to bermuda. nice build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Beautiful. I, on the other hand, will be creating sacrelidge by turning a BOAC Airfix Kit into a RAF C1.... I've got one to do that to as well...... Keef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richellis Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 (edited) Lets hope airfix read this and re-issue some kits! and maybe add a 1/72 VC 10! Edited September 16, 2009 by richellis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi-Jiff Kenobi Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Lets hope airfix read this and... ...maybe add a 1/72 VC 10! There have been rumours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody37 Posted September 16, 2009 Author Share Posted September 16, 2009 Now that would have to be built. Hope the rumours are substantial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 I'm no VC10 expert but that looks gorgeous and I would be proud to finish mine as well as you have. Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody37 Posted September 16, 2009 Author Share Posted September 16, 2009 Thanks Martin, Realy appreciate al the positive vibes here (anyone seen kely's Heroes ? !!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev1n Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 (edited) The VC 7.....was a proposed smaller, shorter two engined version for BEA Edited September 18, 2009 by kev1n Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi-Jiff Kenobi Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 That would make a great airliner whif, to park alongside the BOAC and JAL Concordes, and the Pan-Am Northrop Flying Wing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev1n Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 find me a spare airfix vc10 kit and I'll convert it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyGhost Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Lovely ... I really like those old BOAC liveries ... Gregg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vickers McFunbus Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 While the RAF is still flying VC10s I see absolutely no reason to suffer low energy light bulbs in my house. We operate them as economically as we can... ...which maybe explains my guilt in having a houseful of low energy light bulbs! Best airliner ever built. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EE Lightning Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Nice job mate - very nice. Simply the most beautiful airliner ever built... all the best, Geoff C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Ogilvie Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 We operate them as economically as we can...Best airliner ever built. And most beautiful they look as they pass over the house - will be right sad when they're gone Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr B Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Nice one! Best Mr B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntPhillips Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Beautiful job Neil, and those resin engines really do make a difference don't they. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julien Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Just saw this, looks really sharp, love that contrast between the white & blue Julien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stringbag Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Sorry Neil, only just spotted this one. Lovely job there Matey. See ya soon. Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody37 Posted October 17, 2009 Author Share Posted October 17, 2009 Beautiful job Neil, and those resin engines really do make a difference don't they. They do, thanks for letting me rummage through your colection Ant. Cheers Neil Sorry Neil, only just spotted this one.Lovely job there Matey. See ya soon. Chris. Good to see ya bag on here mate. Hoping to arrange a trip over to flint sometime soon. A guy who has just started in my office lives in Flint too. Small world ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stever219 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Paint was Halfords appliance white gloss, Halfords primer and Revel SM371 for the grey bits.Glossed with Humbrol hobby spray and finished with Klear after the decals.What was the VC7 ? Love the old Airfix models. Whilst they aren't known for their accuracy, they always seem to come up well after an attack of the filler and a dose of sanding. Cheers Woody, VC7 was a civil version of the Vickers V.1000, a four-Conway transport proposed in the mid-1950s to operate in support of the RAF's V-bombers, with a comparable performance. The design was based on that of the Valiant, with a compound-sweep wing with the engines buried in the roots and slotted flaps married to a circular-sectionn pressurised fuselage with seating for over 100 (120?) passengers. The tail unit was conventional, with a variable-incidence tailplane set on the rear fuselage and a conventional swept fin and rudder. Flying controls were to be fully powered and, for RAF use, a hydraulic freight lift was incorporated into the rar fuselage. A prototype was ordered and six production aircraft for the RAF. The aeroplane was pitched at BOAC for its trans-Atlantic routes and some interest was expressed. However politics (sound familiar?) got in the way: BOAC got cold feet after the Comet tragedies and delays with the Britannia. Their position was that the Conway in a buried installation could not produce the 22,500lb thrust needed for trans-Atlantic operations, even though just such an installation did produce that amount of oomph for the HP Victor. The result was predictable: the Treasury faced with supporting all of the development costs, including those of the engine, pulled the plugs. Trans Canada Airlines had also exprerssed an interest, but by the time that they were in a position to do anything about it the 80% complete prototype (XD662 I think) had been cut into 20-foot long chunks and shipped off to Shoeburyness to be shot to ****: the jigs and tools were also cut into little bits for turning into Ford Anglias (or something like). VC7/V.1000 would probably have looked very handsome in BOAC and Transport Command colours, not to mention several other airlines (Air France and TWA spring to mind as being quite striking). There are some model photographs in the late Derek Woods' "Project Cancelled" and one or two of the nearly-completed prototype. There are also some, IIRC, in the Crowood VC-10 book if you want to cry yourself to sleep one night. IIRC the "baby brother" VC-10 for BEA was the VC-11, but I may be wrong. I hope I haven't gone on too long, but VC7/V.1000 is another in a long litany of "what should have been" and would make a splendid "what if". Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody37 Posted April 1, 2010 Author Share Posted April 1, 2010 Didn't someone make a model of one of these on this forum a few months back ? I remember seeing something that looked like a windowed up Valiant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richellis Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Im doing a victor airliner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beany Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Probably the Frog kit. They go for rather good money on e-bay now!Lovely VC-10 Woody, I really like that! Really must get one of mine done..... Keef Sorry, I have been a bit slow noticing this excellent thread, but I thought you guys might find these photos of interest. I picked it up for a tenner when my LMS unfortunately closed for good after Xmas. It is not complete unfortunately but I am hoping to scratchbuild or bodge the missing parts and do it wheels up on it's stand (unless someone makes me an offer I can't refuse for it, hint, hint!!)... Cheers Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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