vickers victoria

It was actually a transport aircraft. It used the same wings and tail as the Vickers Virginia bomber, together with the fuselage from the earlier Vickers Vernon transprt. A real pick-n-mix aircraft!

The RAF used some really weird looking aircraft between the wars. Have you ever seen the Boulton-Paul Sidestrand and Overstrand?

Handley Page Heyford. The bomber they built upside down. Matchbox used to do one back in the day.

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nodnodnod Now *there's* a kit that should be ripe for re-release by Revell!

They had some nice subjects around that time, like the Vickers Wellesley and Canberra PR9. Matchbox ran some adverts when the Heyford came out, in which some guy I can't remember wrote up how he super-detailed the kit and got around its shortcomings. Funny how no manufacturer has plucked up the courage to do that again.

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I built one of those Wellesleys. It was actually a very nice kit, without the trademark Matchbox trenches for panel lines. Same goes for their Fairey Seafox.

I had the Wellesley too. Nicely done geodesic surface detail as I remember. That's another one I'd buy in a flash if revell were to re-release it. Actually, they had a nice line-up of subjects - clunky and plain, but nice. The last Matchbox kits I built were their 1/32 Sea Venom and the 1/32 Spitfire 24. Wish I still had those in the stash waiting to be built.

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I built them both as well. Apparently both will be re-released by Revell this year.

Now I just need to work out how many of each to buy...

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Well... I reckon that you would need at least 9 of the Spitfire:

Mk 24: 80 Sqn in Hong Kong with the iconic Korea invasion stripes and the non-standard Dark Green/Dark Sea Grey uppersurfaces. Mk 24: 80 Sqn in Germany, with a standard Dark Green/Ocean Grey uppersurfaces and blue squadron codes Mk 22: Overall high speed silver with squadron markings denoted by coloured bars Mk 22: Overall high speed silver with squadron markings denoted by black code letters Mk 22: RAuxAF markings - standard camouflage

Then there would be the conversions:

Seafire FR47: two of these, with and without Korea stripes, maybe one with folded wings. Seafire F46 Spitfire F21

See? It's easy when you come to think about it! ;-)

The FR47 conversion is the one that's really got me going. That just has to be my all time favourite of all time.

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my goldstar was a bitsa, frame from a norton international and motor from a catalina scrambler. yep, gotta love them weird brit birds.

reissued and easy to find for around 15-20 bucks.

all of those show up on ebay for doable prices.

Found the Spit for £22 and rising on ebay.uk, I can't help but think the re-issue will be around there. Good bang for the buck with revell these days. That big Tornado for instance...

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I've managed to get *three* 1/48 Airfix Seafire FR47s on Ebay. One of them is just about to hit my workbench. It will make a nice comparison to the Seafire IIc that has just left my workbench!

if you had someone to mail from the u.s., you could do a bit better. are there any cheap shipping methods across the pond?

hows bout some pics?

The Seafir F47 or FR47 is doable from the Matchbox kit - I did one a while ago, if interested you can see it on my site here

that is a very nice build. i got to get me one.