Boeing Waddington AEW.3.with photos

[McColm]

Whilst I have been tidying up my hobby room and putting up more shelves on the racking I had a brainwave why not use the resin parts from the RVHP Lockheed NC-121 plus the WV-2 large spin top rotodome.
When laid out they fit and I can get this build to the primer stage.
I've added the radome from the H.S. 748 AEW Indian prototype as it looks better in comparison.
I have kept some of the decals from the Airfix H.P. BR.1 Victor kit which will work well on a gloss white paint scheme.

[McColm]

A new designation to the AEW role, the Boeing equivalent to the Lockheed WV-2.

[Captain Canada]

Looks good.

[McColm]

Looks good.

Thanks 

[McColm]

A pair of scratchbuilt ESM pods have been fitted to the wingtips. Lumps and bumps from the Falcon Triple Conversion II set has also been glued on.

[McColm]

I've managed to cut the propellers to fit using a 1/72 Hamilton blade from a Grumman E-2 Hawkeye as a template.
I'm thinking white gloss all over apart from the radome and engines plus landing gear. Going to have to get some aftermarket decals, then take a casting of the engines as they will come in handy.

[McColm]

Another design change, I've added a pair of well worn 1/72 resin BAe Nimrod AEW.3 radomes and was in the process of changing the turboprops into turbofans until I ran out of superglue. Having the FASS and the rotodome systems this particular Waddington would have been the test aircraft to evaluate both airborne radars.
There's quite a lot of PSR to be done blending the new parts to the fuselage but it will be worthwhile in the end , a flamboyant paint scheme or sharks mouth, could even be a platypus!

[McColm]

The Boeing Waddington AEW.3 has had four turbofaned engines fitted with the experimental radome dismantled so it's now the FASS. Heat exchangers have minimised the problem of over heating the radars and avionics. Flight trials continue with a training unit for hands on experience both in the air and for the ground maintenance team with missions lasting upto eight hours, maximum endurance is twelve hours. It's hoped that in-flight refuelling will be plumbed in before the first operational flight pencilled-in (1979).

[McColm]

Looking much better with the turbofan engines.