KOTR Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 If i'm not mistaken there IS a Valiant model in 1/72 out there, but i can't recall the brand. Mach2 (beware!) and Airfix. Lee White 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 What was the mission of them Bucc? Tactical nuke? Mud mover? Low level strike, RAFgermany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerobat Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I'd really like to do one of the standing nuke force CF-104s in Germany in the late 60s. There's not much info out there on that part of RCAF history. It was kinda buried after the Voodoo retirement to advance the peaceful nation narrative. There's some info in the new Air Doc book on the Starfighter in Canadian service. http://www.largescaleplanes.com/reference/details.php?title=5607 Almost 5 pages on the nuclear roll of the CF-104 in the Weapons chapter and some on the politics and Parliment in the Canadair production chapter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee White Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Mach2 (beware!) and Airfix. The Airfix kit is several orders of magnitude better than the MachPoo kit azzaob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 (edited) Doesn't Great Wall make kits of all three "V" bombers? On a separate note, how challenging are the Airfix Buccaneer kits in 1/48th? I have one in the stash that had two complete sets of sprues in the box. Carl Edited January 17, 2016 by BloorwestSiR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOTR Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 The Airfix kit is several orders of magnitude better than the MachPoo kit I have no doubt about that, having seen two M2 kits in person and having heard from the one or other guy who were lucky surviving building one... Lee White and Jack 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee White Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 On a separate note, how challenging are the Airfix Buccaneer kits in 1/48th? I have one in the stash that had two complete sets of sprues in the box. Carl The Airfix Buccs suffer from severe fuselage warpage, and are rough builds. Britmodeller has a (pinned?) thread on how to build it with a minimum of pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Martinnfb Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 this is cool one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azzaob Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 The Airfix kit is several orders of magnitude better than the MachPoo kit yep, got both, they might as well be models of different planes Lee White 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetwings Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 (edited) The Mach 2 kit can be built into a reasonable replica with what the late Phil "Bondo" Brandt would have called a lot of "practice bleeding", but now the Airfix kit means that the effort isn't worth the pain. I'm sure the Mach 2 kit can be used as the basis for something - just haven't worked out what as yet. Maybe one of Tony Buttler's "Secret British Bombers" or a Vickers 1000 ... Edited January 19, 2016 by Wetwings Lee White 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 (edited) What was the mission of them Bucc? Tactical nuke? Mud mover? Originally anti-shipping to counter the then-new Soviet Sverdlov-class cruisers [Edit: I forgot, but looked up, the class name]. You may have seen that the S1 was often painted in overall white with "pale" markings, which of course means a nuclear role. The RN mission was predominantly that. The RAF mission was anti-shipping (12 and 208 Sqns from Honington, later Lossiemouth) and overland strike from Germany (15 & 16 Sqns). For further reading see http://www.avcollect.com/blackburnbuccaneer.htmland http://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Buccaneers-Operational-Service-Royal-Airforce/dp/1852606118/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1453186578&sr=8-16&keywords=graham+pitchfork I particularly recommend the book - sorry, my signed copy is not not for sale. Edited January 19, 2016 by MikeC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Boillot Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 (edited) I love the Bucc. But it's got a face only a mother could love. Well, maybe not even Mom could love that thing. But the crews sure loved them and they did the job. So typically British, though. Form after function, loooong after function.... I have to disagree with you, Ernie. It was the best looking of the Blackburn lineage. I guess someone in their design office finally found out the (hitherto well-hidden) French Curves for drafting. As they could not apparently use two types of drafting instruments, they then decided to discard the faithful rulers they had been using for 5 decades Hubert Edited January 19, 2016 by MostlyRacers Tony T and Jack 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wunwinglow Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Maybe they hired someone from de Havilland, and he brought his French Curve set with him! Tim geedubelyer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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