Back by popular demand my version of the 1/72 Handley Page Victor AEW.3  started build but ended up as a flying boat conversion.
I used the Revell/Matchbox kit, Cammett BAe Nimrod AEW.3 conversion set and the Academy Boeing KC-97G tanker part as the glazing for the cockpit glazing.


I'm now using the Airfix Victor B.Mk.2 (BS) without the glazed parts  (they are not with the rest of the kit).I have found a pair of well used BAe Nimrod AEW.3 radomes and glued them on .I did find a piece of old vacuum glazing which I will use later in the build and I have come up with this.

The overly engineered Airfix HP Victor, undergoing construction. I found a camera pod and bodged the recess left by the Blue Steel missile. The ESM pods are from the Revell Dassault Atlantic.

I have just found the closed bomb bay doors and the pair of open doors, oops so I didn't need to cut up the Blue Steel missile. Just gluing the underside wings on.

That's better

A new glazed canopy from a B-52G with one of the fuel tanks glued in place.


PSR is ongoing until my hands start aching.  Time to stop.

I like it the way it is now

Quote from: Tophe on April 18, 2022, 03:16:32 AM
I like it the way it is now

Thanks, just a few more parts to add before the PSR stage.

Update on the work so far.

good, go on!

Got to come up with a funky paint scheme other than white or grey

Maybe "white with grey circles", this would be very what-if while inspired somehow by RW

I've just been seeing if the cockpit glazing from the 1/72 Revell/Monogram Convair RB-36H model fits. I have three so I will use one of them.

Reunited with the original glazed pieces.

all right...

Slight change of plan I'm reverting back to the 1/72 Matchbox HP Victor K2 kit, as my insomnia killed the Airfix model.
The  Cammett BAe Nimrod AEW.3 radomes have been glued on but turned 90° as they are a better fit, the camera pod has been fitted towards the rear. I have glued both fuselage halves together, with nose weight and left it to dry overnight.  Both of the engine sections have also been glued up,left to dry overnight.
Result the cockpit canopy doesn't fit but I think that I have a alternative.

This time around the build seems to be working out okay, I don't do precise so the front resin radome is slightly off center. I've stuck the canopy glazing from a Airfix BAe Nimrod on over the one that came with the kit.
The main landing wheels haven't been added so they should provide adequate ground clearance.
The hazard of masking tape glued to the fuselage with very strong superglue.

Certainly coming together