Airfix Nimrod

Jeffry Fontaine · May 29, 2008, 09:23:14 PM

A build article on the Airfix 1/72 scale Nimrod by James Kelly on Hyperscale at this link: http://www.hyperscale.com/2008/galleries/nimrod72jk_1.htm

Weaver · May 30, 2008, 01:23:30 AM

Funnily enough, a sale to Japan was seriously discussed: it would have been dependent on selling them to the USN, which would have resulted in a production line for new fuselages having to be set up.....

Jennings · June 01, 2008, 08:15:13 PM

Quote from: Weaver on May 30, 2008, 01:23:30 AM
...it would have been dependent on selling them to the USN...

BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! OOooooh man, that made tea come out my nostrils!! Hoooo....

J

PS: When did "funnily" become a word?

NARSES2 · June 02, 2008, 01:41:49 AM

Quote from: Jennings on June 01, 2008, 08:15:13 PM
J

PS: When did "funnily" become a word?

When it met it's friend "enough". Seriously I think it's a case of something that was acceptable as spoken English moving into the written realm. My formal English classes were to long ago to remember if I'd have been doing lines for using it in an essay. E-mail and now text are responsible for possibly the fastest changes in written English since the 18th Century. I don't say it's either good or bad as language has to change to remain alive.

Chris

GTX · June 02, 2008, 12:19:54 PM

Quote from: Falcon on June 02, 2008, 10:23:55 AM
At the same time the Falklands kicked off in '82, a delegation from Hawker Siddeley were in Baghdad trying to sell Saddam Hussein the AEW Nimrod. The Iraqis were very interested in the Nimrod AEW.3 and had it gone into service with the RAF, then the Iraqis would have had them too.

Now that would make an interesting model - an Iraqi Nimrod AEW!!!

Regards,

Greg

philp · June 02, 2008, 01:17:59 PM

Please, someone do a profile of the Peas and Carrots scheme.

kitnut617 · June 02, 2008, 06:43:18 PM

I was unpacking some of my boxes of books on the weekend and one of the magazines I've kept, is the 1984 RAF Year Book which happened to be at the top of one of the boxes. Front cover is a rendering of a Nimrod AEW with two Tornado F.3's in the background and inside is a nice cut-away of the aircraft along with a article about it including some colour photos of a real hemp coloured test aircraft. What's more interesting is on the next page is an advert for Marconi which shows profiles of the Nimrod, a Domini, a Transall, a Hercules and what looks like a 767 but it could be an Airbus (I'm not up on my airliner recognition), all with the same radar fairings as the Nimrod. The Domini has a scaled down version of the radomes though. Also shown is a helicopter (which looks very much like a Merlin/Cormorant) and a Short Sherpa which both have a small E-3 looking radar hanging down from the rear ramp on a pylon, it looks like the radome retracts up against the ramp door when taking off or landing.

Now that there's a radome conversion available, I'm thinking about doing one of these other aircraft.

Mossie · June 03, 2008, 05:13:07 AM

This one Robert? Martin posted it some time ago in another thread:

Here's another couple of pics scanned from 'From Spitfire to Eurofighter' to add to the discussion:

Note the jet powered Andover especially!

kitnut617 · June 03, 2008, 05:19:32 AM

There you go Simon

-- that saved me from taking a photo of the page

These are all do-able now!!

And I just happen to have a spare Hawkeye radome left over from my Greyhound conversion I'm in the process of building. I was thinking of putting it on one of my Vickers Vanguards but I might change my mind now after seeing the Nimrod ----- now just need to find another Nimrod ---