Vickers VC-10 Superb

[Hobbes]

1/72 scale might be a bit tricky.

there are 2 1/72 VC-10 kits (Magna and Anigrand, IIRC), but you need 2 kits to make 1 Superb so that project would involve a bit of sticker shock.

I can scale the engines to 1/72 fairly easily.

[kitnut617]

1/72 scale might be a bit tricky.

there are 2 1/72 VC-10 kits (Magna and Anigrand, IIRC), but you need 2 kits to make 1 Superb so that project would involve a bit of sticker shock.

I can scale the engines to 1/72 fairly easily.

Three is you count the Airways Vac Form kit, got one in the stash too ---

[Hobbes]

I've more or less finished this (and I got it done in time for Telford). There are a few items I still need to sort out (the decals need repairs).







Another set of RB.178 engines (same basic design I used for the Jet Belfast, now in side-by-side configuration):





Next to a standard VC-10 (the RB.211 test bed G-AXLR, based on the Airfix kit), you can see it's much longer. If you look back at the photos at the start of this thread, I hacked up the Roden kit (which is a Super VC-10) and inserted 2 fuselage sections, totaling 17 windows.

Can anyone see the images in this post? I can't, which is weird, because the image URLs are all valid.

[scooter]

I've more or less finished this (and I got it done in time for Telford). There are a few items I still need to sort out (the decals need repairs).







Another set of RB.178 engines (same basic design I used for the Jet Belfast, now in side-by-side configuration):





Next to a standard VC-10 (the RB.211 test bed G-AXLR, based on the Airfix kit), you can see it's much longer. If you look back at the photos at the start of this thread, I hacked up the Roden kit (which is a Super VC-10) and inserted 2 fuselage sections, totaling 17 windows.

Can anyone see the images in this post? I can't, which is weird, because the image URLs are all valid.

All blank

[kitnut617]

I've more or less finished this (and I got it done in time for Telford). There are a few items I still need to sort out (the decals need repairs).







Another set of RB.178 engines (same basic design I used for the Jet Belfast, now in side-by-side configuration):





Next to a standard VC-10 (the RB.211 test bed G-AXLR, based on the Airfix kit), you can see it's much longer. If you look back at the photos at the start of this thread, I hacked up the Roden kit (which is a Super VC-10) and inserted 2 fuselage sections, totaling 17 windows.

Can anyone see the images in this post? I can't, which is weird, because the image URLs are all valid.

No I can't see anything either Harro. All the pics in this thread have disappeared.  But I think I know what it might be as I had a similar problem a while ago. For me it was the photo hosting website not having its security certificate renewed. I was able to get them to appear when I changed the settings here in my profile to accept the hosting site as unsecure.  But that was before our big forum update, I think I'd better go check my posts to see if any of mine has disappeared again.

EDIT; It seems like the settings I change in 'My Profile' carried over to the updated forum.

[Hobbes]

That's odd. I switched my hosting to secure a while ago, today I updated the links in this topic to https thinking the images would be visible again, but no luck. Stranger still: my avatar uses the same hosting site and it is visible.

[kitnut617]

one for Paul then ---

[Hobbes]

I think I've found it: the image URL uses uppercase letters.
VC-10 Superb 1a.JPG
The new forum software converts this to lowercase.
VC-10 Superb 1a.jpg
which means the url is incorrect and the image is not found.

Changing case didn't help. The original filename contains spaces, which are stripped by the forum sw.

[FXII]

I tried to type the image url in lower case, but unfortunately still no pictures. Is there any other way for you to show us this great project?

[Wardukw]

This is annoying cause I've always loved the lines of the VC-10 and I'm very interested to see what this looks like .

[Gondor]

Does this work? Looks ok in Preview

Gondor

EDIT: Looks as if it does. What I did was this.... opened a link that Hobbes had in one of his posts in a new tab, then Replyed to a post and used the "Insert Image" pictogram. I then copied the https info from the tab which had the picture and put that where the https was in the window that opened when I clicked on the "Insert Image" pictogram.

[FXII]

Ta Da, there they, perfect pictures!
Thanks

[Wardukw]

YES!!  We have a picture 
I like what I'm seeing and now we need more ..bloody nice work Gondor mate..bloody nice work for sure