Been looking forward to seeing this one. Nice detailed review focusing on the useful stuff, thanks Nigel. Good to see all the options offered in the instructions.
Hi Nigel, Good to see you've got your enthusiasm back. It definitely helps when the kit makers bring out an interesting subject matter and turn that into a decent kit. I may well look to get me one of these. Thanks.
After such a nicely enthusiastic review, I'm sorely tempted but simply don't have the room to build or display it, though that will hopefully change soon. I'll wait to see if any other versions become available in the future- I'd love to build XH558 or the RAF Museum or Duxford ones (you can now sit in the one at Duxford!). I'd be tempted to leave the cockpit canopy removable to make the interior visible- with that level of detail it would be a shame to hide it all. Can't wait to see the build!
So now that we have a new Vulcan, what are people going to do with all that photo etch and resin they bought for the original one? Is it possible that all that resin and photo etch might fit the new one? Even with a bit of fine tuning? I personally don't have one but I would be interesting if you could do a fit review if you have time.
Great kit and nice review. But the schemes are wrong. The anti-flash white was for the high-level deployment of the Blue Steel Stand-off. When the RAF lost the nuclear deterrent to the Submarine fleet, the Vulcan was converted to a camouflaged low-level bomber with 21, 1,000lb iron bombs.
THANK YOU.. that's exactly what I was thinking. If you notice I pause when I read the bit about "Only version B can be displayed with bomb bay doors open". However, there are images on google of camo Vulcans carrying Blue Steel???
You may say that. But check reference photo's. I have seen photo's of Camo Vulcan's carrying Blue Steel. But you are right, the White Scheme one should really have the Blue Steel missile. In the end you can build the camo version with bombs, should you so wish.
@@Andy.Gledhill.Models. There are indeed pictures of the Vulcan with camouflage scheme and a blue steel in the weapons bay, and yes they did experiment it’s use at low level. However, to put a standard bomb load in an, anti-flash scheme is incorrect.
@@NigelsModellingBench You know i'm a snob when it comes to kits,if it was ZM i'd be all over it.Still paying for the two litres of panel line wash that was sucked up by panel lines on \72 Spitfire.Saying that the styrene i'm.working with is pretty soft.I'm imagining that the T34 never exhisted and germay needed a medium tank(not panther-it being a reaction to T34)using stock of parts available in late 41.Using chassis VK3601(developmental chassis to Tiger VK4501H)and Panther suspension and running gear and exhaust system with experimental 7.5/5.5cm 'squeeze gun'.Most fun ive had in a while,almost done.Looks like a hotrod VK1602 or VK901 with the panther tracks.Its different.
@@stuartsteel1 Who doesn't? Blame the government, they allow that. Same here in the U.S with the T.P.A and N.a.f.t.a...(Trans Pacific Agreement and North America Free Trade Agreement, for Canada and Mexico). You can clearly see the situation just by sitting by the San Francisco bay : cargo ships entering the bay overloaded with containers and leaving empty...
@@stuartsteel1 Everyone does. If this was manufactured in UK then you would pay triple for this, which would put it out of your average modellers price range.
Hi Nigel. I worked on Vulcan's as an Armourer at RAF Waddington 1979 to 84. Had the pleasure of deploying to Ascension Island to bomb up the Vulcan during the Falklands War. Check my Scalemates page www.scalemates.com/profiles/mate.php?id=95096. I have put pictures on their of us arming up the Vulcan. Feel free to check them out for reference. On this kit. It does look very nice. But it looks like this initial production run is of an earlier variant of the Vulcan. But looking at the parts in the box, I think there are parts there to make the later models. You can build the camo scheme one XM594 with bombs. Or any other Vulcan, if you have after market decals. I have ordered some decals and hope to do XM607 for my build. Check reference photo's. EG XM594 looks different today compared to the kit. Today she has the "tit" on the nose underneath the refuelling probe. This was for the Terrain Following Radar I believe. She also has the square shaped top for the rear tail fin today. But it looks like both these parts are included in this model. Here is a great pic of XM594 today commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Avro_Vulcan_B2_XM594_(6952334197).jpg. I personally think they have overdone the panel lines on the wings. Those diagonal lines just don't show up in photos of the real aircraft. Will have to see what they look like with paint on.
@@NigelsModellingBench the missions to takeout the radar sites at Port Stanley during the Falkland War. They outfitted some Vulcans with ECM pods on one outside pylon and a shrike anti radiation missile on the other. The Vulcan and the Valiant (Suez Crisis 1956) are the inly 2 V-Bombers to conduct combat sorties.
