Breguet (Westland) Br.1070 Seche

Bungle · April 06, 2018, 08:54:28 AM

Been working on this for a week actually - didn't know if the 'concept' would work. This will be the French version of a joint venture with Westland for a navy jet attack aircraft.

Pictures to follow maybe even a completed kit !

Bungle · April 22, 2018, 10:51:09 AM

So after much fiddling the Breguet Br.1070 Seche (Cuttlefish)

Based on a Westland airframe..

Bungle · April 22, 2018, 10:55:26 AM

Didn't have time to post the build thread so here it goes in retrospect.

The kit is a frogski Westland Wyvern (no !) bought off of ebay as complete. That is complete with broken undercarriage and missing the wheels hey he.

First job was surgery on the exhausts....

Same on the otherside (technical term) but here is a white metal nose cone from an su-7, I think.

Bungle · April 22, 2018, 10:58:29 AM

Added some bomb halves to give an indentation and the hollowed out the fuselage.

Note I reversed the prop shaft to give the nose cone something to attach to.

Bungle · April 22, 2018, 11:00:27 AM

A little paint (Halfords primer)

and then add the cockpit - the seat is an Aeroclub white metal one

Bungle · April 22, 2018, 11:03:14 AM

Wings on !

and now some more paint again Halfords primer, underneath it is unpainted just dry bushed with a little silver and weathering

Bungle · April 22, 2018, 11:06:51 AM

A Satin covering and then some decals from the spares box

I added a needle for the pitot tube and some white metal undercarriage from the spares box. The arrestor hook is down because no matter how much lead I packed into the nose she still sat on her tail !

The Wooksta! · April 22, 2018, 04:01:17 PM

Not too far from the Avon powered Wyvern proposal, although the drawings for that are based more on the earlier Wyvern with the more squared off fin. Don't think it would need the taller fin nor the finlets but hey, your model.

I think the white metal nose cone thing is the Aeroclub one for the Lightning.

The Rat · April 22, 2018, 04:21:15 PM

Most excellent!

Dizzyfugu · April 23, 2018, 01:40:38 AM

I like the tricycle arrangement. Works sursprisingly well.

AS.12 · April 23, 2018, 02:02:57 AM

Good work! Like it a lot.

I wonder how the nose would look if one continued the upper decking down to a Super Mystere-style ovoid intake.

zenrat · April 23, 2018, 02:26:59 AM

Tres bon.

The Wooksta! · April 23, 2018, 02:47:49 AM

Quote from: AS.12 on April 23, 2018, 02:02:57 AM
I wonder how the nose would look if one continued the upper decking down to a Super Mystere-style ovoid intake.

IIRC, the Avon powered one used an early S2 fuselage with the engine in an extended nose. The old Maintrack Wyvern TF1 conversion with a Matchbox Meteor NF11 intake is a good basis. Would probably still have the dihedral tailplanes but no finlets. ISTR a drawing of it in the Tony Buttler British Secret Projects Vol 3.

PR19_Kit · April 23, 2018, 03:04:41 AM

There's something about a Wyvern that triggers the Whiffness in many of us.

Y'day at the MK Show we were right opposite the Coventry Club, and one of their members had 4-5 FAA 1/48 aircraft models on show, and his Wyvern TOWERED over the lot of them!

TheChronicOne · April 23, 2018, 04:21:54 AM

Looks great!