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Published: 2009-01-03 12:44:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 670; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 6
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as requested by my South African DA friend,PhoenixFireGirl......a size-comparison of a SAA 747SP and a British Avro Vulcan B.Mk2 jet bomber in the RAF overall white anti-flash scheme. Mr. Vulcan really isn,t so big after all,is he?Related content
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ok,the one in this pic is a 1/144 Welsh Models vacform that i built in 1991{may be no longer available?} and there are 2 other injection moulded kits,one was Lindberg 1/96{early,possibly a prototype} and AIRFIX makes a very nice and large Vulcan Bmk2 in 1/72.
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ok i looked through the websites of Welsh Models, Lindberg and Airfix but imao AIRFIX have got the best models.. 
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Airfix would be the better choice for a Vulcan,for sure. Welsh,s is after all,a vacform,and those are for experienced modellers only! as for the MiG-29,don,t worry,there are a bazillion kits of it out there in every scale!
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Airfix reissued their Vulcan,so it should be easily available.
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be prepared to pay a few bucks....
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about 50-ish.....
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don,t worry,it,s a BIG bird!
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good kit,but there is a "snag" in there.....you,ll have to do a bit of extra work on the jet exhausts,perhaps a bit of tubing inserted in there. otherwise,they,re just plain empty.
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ehm.. okay, that's strange...
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some kits do have a "quirk" here and there,unless Airfix has corrected it with a bit of retooling since the original was issued in 1984....
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so,will yours be camo or anti-flash?
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looks good either way.....for some reason,my personal fave V-Bomber was always the Vickers Valiant.....
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okay 
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rather conventional,compared to the HP Victor.....{alien spaceship?}
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but i like the victor better ;D
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ever try building that Matchbox kit of it? damn,i wish Airfix would make a new one.....!
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nope....
and which?
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HP Victor. i,d like to see Airfix come out with a new and better one,that old M-Box kit is a BEAST!
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try one yourself sometime,and you,ll see what i mean....!
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Modelling Masochism....!
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very nuicly painted! Great Job. You have such talent!
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lots of practice over 40+years....
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more yet to come.....
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affirmative! both are in 1/144,AKA "Airliner-Scale". even our mighty B-52 is just dwarfed by a 747.
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that is the weirdest delta wing aircraft ive ever seen!
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Have you seen the Dyke Delta? It is a homebuilt aircraft built from plans. [link]
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lol, i take that back, THAT is the weirdest delta wing aircraft ive ever seen! i wonder how much one of those would cost over a regular homebuilt kit.
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It's hard to say. How are you at scrounging materials?
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probably not that good, all the gear heads probably get to everything first!
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is it? the Victor was even more exotic,with a unique crescent-shaped wing.
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yeah, but it still looks like a "regular" set of wings, that plane on the other hand has a really wide set of deltas
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not quite that regular,and i think the HP Victor was the only production/service type to ever use them.
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iยดm surprised... the vulcan looks SO huge
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it was really an illusion created by the tall undercarriage. i went inside one once,and it really is a bit cramped inside.
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bear in mind it was a 1952 design,and the jet engines were somewhat low-thrust.
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but not here XD
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