Wednesday 3 April 2019

dh Sea Vixen

Hot on the heels of the Canberra, next to emerge from the pile of dust and plastic is this rather fetching Sea Vixen.  It's respectable appearance is no doubt helped by the fact that I neither built nor painted the thing...
Such is it's completeness that it retains a full set of wheels!  I think this is probably the FROG kit.
If it looks pretty sleek and modern this is understandable - it was only replaced in 1972 by the F-4 Phantom.

10 comments:

Robert (Bob) Cordery said...

Tim,

The Sea Vixen had an interesting career. Its design drew on de Havilland's experience with the Vampire and Venom, and was originally a competitor with the Gloster Javelin to be an all-weather fighter for the RAF. The RAF chose the Javelin, but the FAA chose the Sea Vixen.

What you could really do with is a Supermarine Scimitar to fly alongside it ... but I have no idea if anyone ever made a kit of it.

All the best,

Bob

Pete. said...

Looks like a nice kit of a terribly outdated aircraft.

Cheers,

Pete.

Anthony Morton said...

What a beauty-both the model and the real thing!

Red_Cardinal said...

You'll probably be unsurprised to hear that Frog produced a Scimitar kit in 1/72. A more modern kit is available by Xtrakit. I've no idea how much it costs though.

Tim Gow said...

Bob Cordery
I certainly don’t have a Scimitar but I used to work with a bloke who’d done his back in ejecting from one!

Tim Gow said...

Pete
Outdated? Cheeky young whippersnapper!

Tim Gow said...

Anthony Morton
Quite right sir!

Tim Gow said...

Red Cardinal
I’ll look out for it!

Geordie an Exiled FoG said...

I remember this one
Nice plane

Tim Gow said...

Geordie
It’s a surprisingly big ‘plane. But then my only other Sea Vixens are 1/1200 scale!