1/48 DeHavilland Sea Vixen FAW.2 - Carrier Aircraft GB

[Airframes]

Sounds good, and glad the web-site is useful - thought you might like it !

 

[brucejscott]

It's a little weird not starting with the cockpit, but I don't have the parts yet. The booms and tailplane are together and mocked up...

Going to be a big b*****d. Airfix has done some nice engineering on this kit. All the control surfaces are hinged and can be installed after the wings/booms/tailplane are glued together making it possible to pose them or paint them. So far, fit is superb.

 

[Airframes]

Good stuff Bruce. All the reviews really praise this kit, and it's going to be one big, impressive bird when done. The real one looks huge close up, especially for the era, when British carrier aircraft had been relatively small.

 

[Lucky13]

Agree old bean, felt intimidated standing close to the real thing!

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice jig work.

 

[vikingBerserker]

I agree!

 

[Wayne Little]

Bruce! you've missed the big bit in the middle....

This is sure gonna look impressive!

 

[meatloaf109]

Yeah, gotta have somewhere for the "tea-sipper" to sit!

 

[Lucky13]

At least our tea sometimes, well, most of the time, has a higher alcohol percentage than your......'beer'!

 

[brucejscott]

Thanks Terry, Jan, Andy, David, Wayne and Paul. I don't know Jan, I tend to drink local micro-brews. Some of them will knock you on your butt so hard that when you wake up your clothes are out of style.



On another front, my cockpit parts came today. Now I can stop pretending that it's the original "stealth" fighter that got only partially funded.

The other thing I got today is the newest addition to my hobby room....

That's my son playing my vintage 1982 Atari "XEVIOUS" arcade game. Pumped many a quarter into those babies back in the day. "XEVIOUS" was always my favorite. Hope to get some modelling done tomorrow. Video gaming tonight!

 

[dirkpitt289]

Nice choice of kit. Airfix did a great job with this one. I look forward to seeing your progress

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[ccheese]

Nice start.... that's an awesome cockpit....

Charles

 

[brucejscott]

Great shots Jan! Many thanks!, and thank you Dirk, Wayne and Charles.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Doing good Bruce and great shots Jan.

 

[parsifal]

A great choice Bruce. It goes really wel with my Sea Venom, but much more impressive....

 

[brucejscott]

Thanks Vic and Michael. Work has begun on the cockpit. There is am enormous amount of detail on the Eduard Zoom set but most of it can't be seen once the cockpit is in without a flashlight and a magnifier. On the next Sea Vixen I build I'll stick with the kit parts.

There's still more to go yet in the pit. Once the rear wall and bang seats are in, I won't even be able to take a picture of the instrument panel. Tight quarters to be sure. Feel sorry for the B/N in the real thing.

 

[parsifal]

without detracting from the quality of the work done one bit (I couldnt do it, put it that way), I can't help but note the difference in scale between the 1/48 cockpit and my 1/72 equivalents. This cockpit is about 4cm long, my Venom cockpit will be a shade over 1cm long. No wonder I cant get the detail into such a small space


But nice work I really mean that

 

[Lucky13]

Sweet! Looking great mate!