gustav53 Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Dear ARC Modellers Today, I roll out our 1/144 Avro Vulcan B.2. Total 48 resin parts, 3 metal parts, 4 clear parts and 1 decal. I like Avro Vulcan series, I have various plans for them. Best Regards, Gustav Jung from Wolfpack-Design http://www.wolfpack-d.com Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mbittner Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Excellent. I'm about finished with the Wolfpack TSR.2, and if it's anything like the TSR.2, then the Vulcan will be superb! Hopefully I'll have the article posted on IM next month. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jennings Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Looks great! But blue stencil data on a Vulcan???? J Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Brown Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Beautiful! How much? Ben Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sebastijan Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Yeah what's the price? Just reading a book Vulcan 607 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
vlamgat9 Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Can't wait to see the Blue Steel version! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MiG31 Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Looks great! But blue stencil data on a Vulcan???? The real aircraft has blue stenciling on the sky underside. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jennings Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 The real aircraft has blue stenciling on the sky underside. Not the ones I've ever been underneath. It was black on Light Aircraft Grey. J Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gustav53 Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 (edited) Dear Thank you for your interesting. Vulcan XH558 (Survivor & flyer) has black stencils on the bottom camouflage(Green & blue gray). Blue stencils are on Light Aircraft grey camo. Best Regards, Gustav Jung from Wolfpack-Design http://www.wolfpack-d.com Not the ones I've ever been underneath. It was black on Light Aircraft Grey.J Edited March 20, 2009 by gustav53 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MiG31 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Not the ones I've ever been underneath. It was black on Light Aircraft Grey. You mean like this one? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Digity Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 (edited) Operational Vulcans had Light Aircraft Grey undersides and the stencils would have been predominantly black, although some red and some yellow stencils are visible on some aircraft. I don't know why the aircraft MiG has linked to has blue stencilling as that does seem rather unusual for a LAG-painted aircraft. However it is a museum exhibit which has been repainted by the museum so it's not an operational finish and it may well have been based on manual specs which have been misinterpreted. Blue stencilling would be more appropriate for an all-white aircraft (all of which - bar one - had gone by 1970). Camouflaged aircraft retained white undersides until the mid '70's when LAG was used instead. Of course some aircraft were also repainted in Dark Grey/Dark Green overall camouflage and two aircraft briefly received two-tone brown undersides for a Red Flag deployment. Black Buck aircraft received Dark Grey undersides (not an actual spec. mix though but it was close to Extra Dark Sea Grey). The decal sheet shown is a bit of a mix really (the red stencils appear to be pink, as seen on all-white aircraft), plus the national insignia is unuseable as the red and blue are the wrong colours. I guess some specialist sheets will come along soon though - hopefully! The kit as shown is fine for a 200 series-engined aircraft but the jet pipe cans would be wrong for any of the Black Buck aircraft as they were all fitted with 300-series engines (the ones that are rather poorly represented by the Airfix kit). Certainly, the two aircraft on the decal sheet (607 and 597) had 300 series engines, not those represented in the kit as shown. There also needs to be the addition of the ECM intake on the starboard side of the tail cone. This is missing from XH558 - the aircraft which the kit appears to have been based upon. B2's all had ECM intakes and it was only the K2 tanker aircraft which had them removed (XH558 is a former tanker and the RAF didn't bother re-attaching the intake when they "de-modified" the aircraft for display flying). I should also point-out that on the camouflage drawing as shown the colours have been reversed - the green is where the grey should be. Bascically, it looks like a great kit providing you add the ECM intake and build an aircraft with 200-series engines, not a Black Buck machine. You could certainly stick a couple of sniffer pods underneath and make a great maritime reconnaissance version with those engine exhaust shrouds as shown, or add an HDU box under the tail and make a tanker - or do both (558 and 560 both flew with HDU's and sniffer pods at the same time for a while). Anyway, looks like a good kit, look forward to seeing it - looks better than the Airfix 72nd scale kit! Edited March 20, 2009 by Digity Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gustav53 Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 Thank you for your reply. It's good helping for me. I was maden another version of nozzle and ECM intake. Don't worry about them. I will add new nozzle. But one week delaying. Best Regards, Gustav Jung from Wolfpack-Design http://www.wolfpack-d.com Operational Vulcans had Light Aircraft Grey undersides and the stencils would have been predominantly black, although some red and some yellow stencils are visible on some aircraft. I don't know why the aircraft MiG has linked to has blue stencilling as that does seem rather unusual for a LAG-painted aircraft. However it is a museum exhibit which has been repainted by the museum so it's not an operational finish and it may well have been based on manual specs which have been misinterpreted. Blue stencilling would be more appropriate for an all-white aircraft (all of which - bar one - had gone by 1970). Camouflaged aircraft retained white undersides until the mid '70's when LAG was used instead. Of course some aircraft were also repainted in Dark Grey/Dark Green overall camouflage and two aircraft briefly received two-tone brown undersides for a Red Flag deployment. Black Buck aircraft received Dark Grey undersides (not an actual spec. mix though but it was close to Extra Dark Sea Grey). The decal sheet shown is a bit of a mix really (the red stencils appear to be pink, as seen on all-white aircraft), plus the national insignia is unuseable as the red and blue are the wrong colours. I guess some specialist sheets will come along soon though - hopefully!The kit as shown is fine for a 200 series-engined aircraft but the jet pipe cans would be wrong for any of the Black Buck aircraft as they were all fitted with 300-series engines (the ones that are rather poorly represented by the Airfix kit). Certainly, the two aircraft on the decal sheet (607 and 597) had 300 series engines, not those represented in the kit as shown. There also needs to be the addition of the ECM intake on the starboard side of the tail cone. This is missing from XH558 - the aircraft which the kit appears to have been based upon. B2's all had ECM intakes and it was only the K2 tanker aircraft which had them removed (XH558 is a former tanker and the RAF didn't bother re-attaching the intake when they "de-modified" the aircraft for display flying). I should also point-out that on the camouflage drawing as shown the colours have been reversed - the green is where the grey should be. Bascically, it looks like a great kit providing you add the ECM intake and build an aircraft with 200-series engines, not a Black Buck machine. You could certainly stick a couple of sniffer pods underneath and make a great maritime reconnaissance version with those engine exhaust shrouds as shown, or add an HDU box under the tail and make a tanker - or do both (558 and 560 both flew with HDU's and sniffer pods at the same time for a while). Anyway, looks like a good kit, look forward to seeing it - looks better than the Airfix 72nd scale kit! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Digity Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Wow that's excellent, the additonal pieces would enable you to make any type of aircraft that you like! If you need any help with information just let me know - I've written three well-known commercial books covering Vulcans so if there's anything you need I could probably find it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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