Ratch Posted January 21, 2022 Author Posted January 21, 2022 I remember seeing them at RAF Gaydon airshows in the 60s
Ratch Posted January 25, 2022 Author Posted January 25, 2022 I have put the office together.Moving onto the nose undercarriage I discovered my kit has two F runners but no G runner! I have contacted the Airfix Spares Dept. to see if they can conjure one up
Hurricane Boy Posted January 27, 2022 Posted January 27, 2022 Looking good Ratch. And good luck with the spares Department…I am hoping for another “happy ending” story on your “G” runner in a week or so!Cheers,Tim
Ratch Posted January 27, 2022 Author Posted January 27, 2022 Fingers crossed Tim.Here are clearer pictures.
Chewbacca34 Posted January 27, 2022 Posted January 27, 2022 Hi Ratch, I've just started exactly the same Victor for a collector of V bombers.So far so good, I think the model is excellent, good job Airfix!Chewy
96RAF Posted January 27, 2022 Posted January 27, 2022 Strapped my backside to the 6th seat many a time as a crew chief on K2 tankers. 1975-81 plus the Falklands caper.
Chewbacca34 Posted January 28, 2022 Posted January 28, 2022 I live near Manston and the museum there has got a Victor cockpit, you can stick your head in to have a look! Wow it seems so cramped and dark, certainly cant see much out the front!As RodC says, once the fuselage halves are put together, you probably wont be able to see any of the cockpit, but I just can't resist doing it properly even though you cant see it...Leaving the crew door open will hopefully help.Can't imagine how uncomfortable is was in the South Atlantic 96RAF, that was an amazing set of missions, still amazes me how it was done.
Pretty Mediocre Modeller Posted January 28, 2022 Posted January 28, 2022 I live near Manston and the museum there has got a Victor cockpit, you can stick your head in to have a look! Wow it seems so cramped and dark, certainly cant see much out the front!As RodC says, once the fuselage halves are put together, you probably wont be able to see any of the cockpit, but I just can't resist doing it properly even though you cant see it...Leaving the crew door open will hopefully help.Can't imagine how uncomfortable is was in the South Atlantic 96RAF, that was an amazing set of missions, still amazes me how it was done. Hi Chewbacca, I also live very near Manston, and have been to that Museum many a time, as well as the Spitfire and Hurricane Memorial Museum next door. When I built my Victor I did as you said and stuck my head in and took multiple photos, which were really helpful. They had also removed and restored the jump seat and this was displayed next to the cockpit, so got lots of reference from that.My build is on here somewhere, but unfortunately all the photos have been lost in the revamp last year. I'll have to see if I can find them on my phone.
Ratch Posted January 28, 2022 Author Posted January 28, 2022 This is the Bruntingthorpe Victor cockpit
Ratch Posted January 28, 2022 Author Posted January 28, 2022 To save time whilst awaiting Airfix Spares to send another G runner, I used the one from my second kit. This enabled me to construct the nose wheel compartment. It was primed with black and then airbrushed with aluminium. I then brush painted the details. Assembly of the tail section followed, and this subassembly was primed white.
Ratch Posted January 30, 2022 Author Posted January 30, 2022 A bit of airbrushingand some hairy sticking
Ratch Posted February 2, 2022 Author Posted February 2, 2022 It was first issued in 20162016 Handley Page Victor B.2 1.72 - - The Airfix Tribute Forum - (tapatalk.com)
Ratch Posted February 6, 2022 Author Posted February 6, 2022 The undercarriage is now ready for fitting.
Ratch Posted February 7, 2022 Author Posted February 7, 2022 Getting the intakes ready to go together
Ratch Posted February 9, 2022 Author Posted February 9, 2022 I was very apprehensive about the assembly of the intakes, but they are very well thought out by the design team. At first, I could not see why parts G7 & 8 were separate and not moulded into the B1/A2/A3 mouldings. Closer inspection leads me to believe this isn’t possible in the moulding process and these parts are the clever way around the problem. Each vane slots in directly through the slot in the upper half of the tube making a seamless joint.Wheel wellWing assembly
Ratch Posted February 14, 2022 Author Posted February 14, 2022 Internals going in.Bomb bayCockpitThe instructions advise 25g weight in the nose. I have selected a 35g tyre weight, which I'll fix with PVA (as on the Matchbox Victor I'm building).
Ratch Posted February 17, 2022 Author Posted February 17, 2022 A mixed day of progressThe wing tips assembled and maskedAirbrakes closed and smooth tail-cone fittedThe cavernous bomb bayI then spent much time reading up. I remembered that the 'elephant ears' were ram-air intakes that helped to cool the ECM system and would not usually be open on static aircraft. My reason for reading was the similar thing under the fuselage. Stage 79 gives the option to have it closed while the open option is fitted much later. I needed to find out what exactly it did. Prior to 1962 a more efficient cooling system was fitted to dissipate the heat generated particularly by the jammers. The heat exchanger for the Freon glycol cooling system was located in what had originally been intended as the flash-bomb bay, and both the nose and rear fuselage equipment were provided with additional ram-air cooling to cope. The air for the rear bay was drawn through an intake in the fuselage underside, but it was later found that this tended to get clogged by chaff. So it my case I could safely have it closed.
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