SR-53

[Hobbes]

This is an Airfix kit of the Saunders-Roe SR-53. It was given to me assembled but not painted, and now I'm going to see if I can make a decent model out of it. What few panel lines there are, are veritable trenches, with the plastic on either side of the line all bunched up, so I've decided I'm better off without them. The pics show the model covered in filler. Next up: sanding. Lots of it :dum:


 

[cthulhu77]

break out the random orbital sander for that one !!!  LOL ...
 should be cool looking jet when you have worked your magic on it !

           greg

[John Howling Mouse]

Aw, Hobbes, that T-Tail brings a tear to my eye...

Does anyone make a 1:48 of this overlooked plane?  Dynavector?

An ebay seller once sent me a bagged version of your Airfix kit for free as a throw-in for the item I had purchased.  Cannot even begin to get the fuselage halves together.  Yours looks quite good by comparison.

Good luck with the putty-sand-repeat cycle!  Kepp us posted.

[Hobbes]

I can't find any SR. 53 kits at either Hannants or lhshop.nl (which is the reason I got this assembled kit in the first place).
Does your include landing gear, or is wheels-up (as mine was done) the only option?  

[Geoff_B]

Aw, Hobbes, that T-Tail brings a tear to my eye...

Does anyone make a 1:48 of this overlooked plane?  Dynavector?

An ebay seller once sent me a bagged version of your Airfix kit for free as a throw-in for the item I had purchased.  Cannot even begin to get the fuselage halves together.  Yours looks quite good by comparison.

Good luck with the putty-sand-repeat cycle!  Kepp us posted.

SAMI has ARBA doing a 1/48 SR.53 for release late 05 or early 06

[The Rat]

I've got one of these up in the attic, so I'll be watching this with great interest!

Keep 'em coming.

[John Howling Mouse]

I can't find any SR. 53 kits at either Hannants or lhshop.nl (which is the reason I got this assembled kit in the first place).
Does your include landing gear, or is wheels-up (as mine was done) the only option?

Not sure if it had gear or not.
I'll have to pull it out of the "warehouse."
I recall it being very basic, though.
And absolutely warped.

[Spellbinder99]

The kit had undercarriage in it. I don't recall any of that era Airfix kit that didn't. Whether it was a GOOD undercarriage, well that was entirely another discussion.

Cheers

Tony

[Captain Canada]

Cool !

make it Canadian, eh ?

 

[rallymodeller]

The only SR-53 kit I have is that crappy Eastern European kit -- it was thrown in with one of the OEZ MiG-21's that I bought...

[Joe C-P]

That looks like it would make for a nice jet seaplane, ala the USN's Sea Dart.

JoeP

[Julhelm]

I'd cut off the wings and give it outrigger floats Campbell-style.

[Hobbes]

Cool !

make it Canadian, eh ?

Nah, I think I'll do this one in real markings (overall white, RAF). The SR.53 wouldn't have been very useful as a fighter (very short range, no radar). It really was a research aircraft. The SR.177, a larger follow-on design with a much more powerful jet engine, would have been the operational variant.
I've got an SR.177 in the stash (Maintrack vacuform), that one will get a Wif paintjob (Dutch air force?).  

[Hobbes]

Almost finished:



(still to be done: decals, and the nose isn't quite right yet)

[Mossie]

Looks nice Hobbes!  If you can get it finished by the end of the day(!) I'd enter it into the Phoenix GB, I think working on a kit for over two years qualifys as 'procrastination of epic proportions'!!!