vulcan

Bill Shuey

Mr. Spock had a 1/1 scale one that was impressive...

the airfix looks ok. i saw a built one and it had some good detail.

Uhm, here in Italy too, last week.... a vodka martini please :)

Btw, were can I find good references on the Vulcan and also on the Black Buck ones (XM607 and XM597)?

Thanks in advance.

Yuri Rambelli

Buy the Airfix 1/72 version! Not a Tamiya grade kit but it's very buildable. Looking at anything else puts you into Vaccform or low-production volumes, which usually means a lot of work to get a respectable model.

I've built the Airfix kit as XL-321 with a few mods. Came up well considering my limited skill with big models.

I'm going to duck ~real~ low as I ask the question:

"Why isn't anyone mentioning the old Lindberg kit?"

-- John ___ __[xxx]__ (o - ) --------o00o--(_)--o00o-------

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written - Henry Kissinger

Probably because most people haven't heard of it or ever seen it for sale.

The Airfix kit, was probably one of the best toolings they ever made.

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The Old Timer wrote in article=20

The Lindberg was the only option for a very long time. Apart from it = being a funny scale to fit in a standard sized box (1/96th- I think) it = was based on the Prototype and was substantially different from later = "Conventional" Vulcans. If memory serves there was Scale Model magazine = article on how to accurize the Lindberg kit into the "V" bomber Vulcan.

I miss the Vulcan, although there is one at a local museum that they = drive up and down the runway occaisionally it's not the same as seeing = that huge pollutant spewing monster taking off. =20 Happy days!!! = =20

in article snipped-for-privacy@mb-m05.aol.com, The Old Timer at snipped-for-privacy@aol.comspamless wrote on 30/7/03 1:14 pm:

Is the Lindberg kit in an odd scail?

I only ask 'cos I am looking at a odd scail Vulcan kit at the moment and wondering who made it.

ISTR there was an article on backdating a Matchbox Victor to an early version. Can't recall the Vulcan conversion though.

PT

yep, that was the conclusion i reached.

airfix has it listed for 32 bucks in the uk. anuone know where i can get one cheaper in the us? or a lindberg? i like lindberg's oddball scales. i used to have a unique shelf of them.

Try Model Expo- if you get on their mailing list they have great web deals.

yes, about 1/2 over three days of spitting. i still haven't seen the river run. what is that museum near you? i want a motorcycle day trip soon. maybe rufus will get his hogley ferguson going with me.

I had one as a kid, but obviously never realized that it wasn't 1:72. It was the one with the straight leading edge to the delta wing, instead of the stepped wing of later production variants. But it ~did~ go nice against the old Vickers Valiant that I picked up in Germany years ago. 1:96 scale or thereabouts. I got mine already (nicely) made from a hobby store in Munich on the Marianplatz near the Hofbrau. Does anybody know who might have manufactured it?

-- John ___ __[xxx]__ (o - ) --------o00o--(_)--o00o-------

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written - Henry Kissinger

Probably the old Frog kit. It was 1/96 and was quite nice for it's day.

Tom

Welsh Models

Jeff C RLHD

Yet, it was the only one I ever got built. Heavy raised panel lines in about 1/96 scale and it represented one of the prototypes. Their Victor was about the same.

It sure looked good in the box.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Giessenlad wrote in article = ...

The Vulcan article was after Scale Model went to A4 format probably = early 70s and then they did a Victor issue after Matchbox brought out = the kit Several pages of very good drawings.