Concorde Bomber Progress

[anthonyp]

Vanguard and Vindicator seem like naturals to me.

[MilitaryAircraft101]

Before, I said Vantage, but the Vanguard sounds cool. What about the "Velociraptor"  Vindicator is cool, maybe Vanquish

[giraffeboy]

Thanks for all the name suggestions, i think my favourites are Vantage, Valiant, Vanquish and vegeance - Perhaps their were a fleet of 4 bombers? Anyway, here's a photoshopped image of the model (edit: extremely photoshopped) as i plan to finish it :



What do you think?

[Hobbes]

 

[MilitaryAircraft101]

Very cool!

[Pablo1965]

Wow, Very cool! has been worth the wait.   

[John Howling Mouse]

This is great.  Love how you use image-editing software to help you forecast your concept.  Very clever....   

[giraffeboy]

Thanks I find it useful , because i can play around with the appearence with out affecting the actual model.

[TsrJoe]

Valiant was one of the trio of 'V bombers' Valiant, Victor and Vulcan, there is a note suggesting Vengeance as a possible name for the F.111 so this might be a more suitable one to use as a 4th 'V bomber' ?
Vanguard appeals too as a pretty imposing name for such an impressive aircraft 

[giraffeboy]

Hi, yeah i went with valiant to show how i would make the V alot bigger than the rest of the writing, i think Vengeance is what i will use, it fits for some reason. And thanks for the "impressive aircraft" comment - That's exactly what i wanted it to be!

[lenny100]

like the vanguard name as this aircraft would of entered service around the same time as the last royal navy battleship "vanguard" was on the way to the scrapyard, so passing the defence of the realm onto a new genoration of weapons via the name

[PR19_Kit]

There may be a slight negative aspect to using Vanguard as it had already been used for the Vickers Mega-Viscount airliner that BEA flew in the 60s and 70s.

Later many of them were converted into Merchantman freighters and spread across the world, the last one being grounded in the mid-90s some time.

[Devilfish]

There may be a slight negative aspect to using Vanguard as it had already been used for the Vickers Mega-Viscount airliner that BEA flew in the 60s and 70s.

Later many of them were converted into Merchantman freighters and spread across the world, the last one being grounded in the mid-90s some time.

Also, with the inter-service rivalry what it was at the time, especially as the RAF had had to accept RN aircraft as a substitute for the all powerful TSR2, using the name of a mere "boat" might have been frowned upon by the top brass in the RAF....

The image looks great tho.

I'm still on the lookout for one of these.  Don't want to settle for 1/144.....

[giraffeboy]

Vanguard sounds to plain in my opinion. I prefer Vengence. And I think the RAF would have chosen a name that wasn't being used.

The airfix 1/72 kit has a few flaws, however, with a bit of effort these are easily fixed. Anyhow, the size alone in 1/72 is impressive!

Often they crop up on ebay, I bought this one ( i have 3 !!!) from ebay for £10!

[James]

Often they crop up on ebay, I bought this one ( i have 3 !!!) from ebay for £10!

A tenner! Bargain.