Alternative MPA and AEW types for the RAF

McColm · April 05, 2014, 08:08:03 PM

There was much room in the Andover either. Bagged a flight from RAF Northolt to fly over London just before they were retired from service.
An VC10 AEW lookalike using my 1/100 Playfix model.

DarrenP · July 30, 2014, 02:58:00 PM

Airbus A330 AEW1
Airbus A330 Rivet Joint
BAe 146 MPA
Airbus A320 MPA
Bombardier C series MPA

P3 Orion
P7
P8

McColm · July 30, 2014, 03:28:31 PM

Airbus 380 AEW
Airbus Atlas MPA/AEW
Saab 2000 AEW
B-1B MPA

McColm · August 06, 2014, 09:15:57 PM

Got another kitbash on the go. I've named it the HS Vulpine- HS Nimrod fuselage (Airfix kit, bomb bay roof turned over. So it arches, longer weapons bay.) Airfix Vulcan wings without the engines. Tristar 1/100 kit T-tail and engine. Engines are to be fixed to the rear. Four Conways from VC-10iski. Landing gear will be from the Vulcan kit.

DarrenP · January 17, 2015, 05:38:59 AM

BAC 1-11 or Trident could they have been made into MPA
Shorts Skyvan or 330 or 360
Handley page herald
viscount

Hobbes · January 17, 2015, 05:44:53 AM

There were proposals based on BAC 1-11 and Trident in the competition that led to Nimrod. They were very different to the airliners, with different wings, engines, modified fuselages.

Gondor · January 17, 2015, 07:28:29 AM

Quote from: Hobbes on January 17, 2015, 05:44:53 AM
There were proposals based on BAC 1-11 and Trident in the competition that led to Nimrod. They were very different to the airliners, with different wings, engines, modified fuselages.

I built one of the BAC 1-11 AEW versions. The thread is here and I really should get around to finishing the other three from the build thread.

Gondor

Captain Canada · January 17, 2015, 09:11:44 PM

Yes you should Gondor !

McColm · October 16, 2021, 05:44:05 AM

You might have seen this before.
https://i.imgur.com/ufi97PZ.jpeg
It's based on the Revell/Matchbox HP Victor K2 with the resin conversion set BAe Nimrod AEW.3 and the glazing on the cockpit canopy came from the Academy Boeing KC-97G kit.
This is another kitbash (first one I sold) based on the 1/72 Airfix Boeing
B-29 with the cockpit from a B-17G. Triple tail fins and rotodome are from a Grumman E-2 Hawkeye ,the nose came from the David J.Parkins JSTARS conversion set, turboprop engines are from a C-130.
I think I called this the Boeing Wyton AEW.1
https://imgur.com/a/q9pJbJ