Sea Vixen FAW.1 1/72

[TheBaron]

Hello all,

Since joing the forum recently after beginning to experiment with modelling at a larger scale, I thought I'd stick up an example of a previous project at 1/72. As there's never been a decent kit of De Havilland's Sea Vixen FAW.1, I found myself having to create one myself from scratch -  In fact I ended up making two versions: XJ481 in its Martel trials livery, and XN708, which as sadly lost in Lyme Bay on a night mission.

 

Both aircraft ending up utilizing a combination of 3d printing for the bulk of the features, with vacforming for the canopy, and homebrew PE for thinner elements like the crew seating and wing fences etc. All markings were painted using custom masks except for smaller markings around cockpit and drop tanks which were hand-painted in tempera. Panel lines around the underside were drawn in with pencil and ruler which I find better at expressing such details at that scale instead of moulded panel lines.

 

XJ481 was built as a personal project whereas XN708 is designed as a display kit that can be posed with wings folded, Avon engines exposed, radome open and the AI.18 radar dish movable.

 

PS. I only noticed afterwards that it had been spitting with rain whilst outside taking these photos earlier so please ignore any droplets masquerading as oversize rivets!

 

Tony

 

XN708

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XJ481

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[paul fisher]

Very Cool! About 45 years ago (!!!!) I modified the then new Frog Sea Vixen backwards to FAW.1 standard. I have been thinking of doing the same to the Airfix 1/48 kit but I am just getting back into model building and it will be a while before I get into that one i think.

 

Scale up your files and maybe offer them for printing in 1/32? Could be fun!

 

[LSP_Kevin]

That is outstanding!

 

Kev

[Alex]

Truly top notch work!  Congratulations!  Looking forward to seeing what you build in larger scale.

[Alain Gadbois]

1/72?

Amazing!

 

Alain

[Kagemusha]

Outstanding models, agree with Paul about upscaling the files if possible.

[Rampenfest]

Stunning work! Can’t believe that it is 1/72! Nicely done. 

[mozart]

Superb Tony!