Britain's BOMARC: Bristol Guided Weapons Division's Blue Envoy SAM

Overkiller · May 21, 2011, 03:46:20 PM

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PR19_Kit · May 22, 2011, 01:43:45 AM

Do you ever sleep Duncan?

Not a day goes by without another of your wonderful projects being posted here.

ysi_maniac · May 22, 2011, 06:52:03 AM

^^^^
He has a team of dwarfs (specially suited to work in 1/72)

Mossie · May 22, 2011, 10:02:08 AM

Yet another I've been contemplating for years but never kicked my backside in to doing! Looking forward to seeing it done Dunc!

Gondor · May 22, 2011, 02:29:09 PM

Quote from: Overkiller on May 22, 2011, 02:15:53 PM

That looks rather like some supersonic transport aircraft like that

Gondor

Alvis 3.14159 · May 22, 2011, 02:35:19 PM

Great work in progress, and an interesting system development. I didn't know aboot this at all until I'd stopped to read this thread.

I wish I didn't have to sleep...it gets in the way of making models!

Alvis Pi

PR19_Kit · May 23, 2011, 01:42:31 AM

As soon as I saw the latest piccies I thought 'D-21'. Then I realised there was no ramjet intake in the nose, but aft of that there are many similarities.

Cobra · May 23, 2011, 02:04:48 AM

This is Surprising & super Cool! You're doing a Top Notch Job So Far

this Design has a Good 'Gerry Anderson' Feel & Look to it! Hope to see more of this Top Notch Project!

Dan

Mossie · May 23, 2011, 02:59:10 AM

Quote from: Overkiller on May 22, 2011, 11:09:03 AM
I've had my eyes on this one, on an on and off basis for several years now. I did plan to do it back in 2008 for the What-If SIG Telford RAF 100 theme, but I was just getting into scratchbodging then, so I wimped out, besides which I hadn't the faintest idea as to how to go about creating a model of it, now, with practice, I usually can spot a good donor kit just by looking at the drawings.

Thanks for comments folks.

Duncan

Got to admit, I'd never have thought about using the Lightning drop tanks & would probably have attempted to adapt the Bloodhound kit. I guess you're doing it in flight because there are no decent GA diagrams showing the boosters???

Mossie · May 23, 2011, 03:16:10 PM

That's were I kind of ground to a halt, the length was fairly easy to deal with, the increased diameter much more difficult. I'd thought about laying successive layers of 5 or 10 thou plastic card, but it doesn't always like to conform.

I think a 'very best guess' could be made from the various pics of the booster, but of course you can't guarantee accuracy. I'd probably have had a shot at them if I'd have given it a go, but I can very much understand why you left them off. Also, it just didn't occur to me to pose it in flight!

I guess you've seen it, but UK 75 on Secret Projects mantions he thinks he's seen a model of the launcher that he believes was the same as Bloodhound II. Again, this is probably how I'd have done it, replacing the Airfix kit's Bloodhound I launcher erector with rams, which I think is the only essential difference between the two launchers. They also a have a breif description of the naval launcher with five fixed side by side rails, although one member suggests it was only breifly considered. Would be nice to see a pic!

Mossie · May 24, 2011, 05:34:52 AM

Excellent!

Supertom · May 25, 2011, 04:11:20 AM

That's really neat there Duncan. Keep it up.