are there any big/good kits?
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20 years ago
are there any big/good kits?
1/72 scale you have the Airfix kit 1/48 scale you have the Aero-club mixed media kit, much $$ if you can find it and it requires some more advanced modeling skills. Finished model is very impressive!
Bill Shuey
Mr. Spock had a 1/1 scale one that was impressive...
*oops*you meant the plane didn't you? The airfix kit was pretty big...personally I am trying to remember a 1/144 vac I had of it years ago so I can get another...
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.
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