Hello all. Due to the C19 lockdown I have decided to resurrect my love of model planes.

[Guest]

Welcome John to the friendliest forum on the internet.
I remember being taken to the RAF St Athan open day in the fifties, where a Vulcan flew over the crowd at about 500 feet, blotting out the sunshine. When over the runway, he pulled it into a vertical full power climb, and as Dave said the ground shook, dogs, babies (and I) cried, photographers fell off their stepladders, etc. Awesome!
Pete

You cry stepping on an ant - I've seen you....:loudly-crying:.

[stillp]

I had chronic ear infections when I was small, and loud noises were painful, so a Vulcan on full reheat...

Pete

[Guest]

John Welcome to the forum,
Plenty of great advice on here plus some you do not need.
Just enjoy your first build for a long time, do it the way you want to do it, and then start to look at the modelling videos and decide what you want to try. It is all about what you get from the hobby.
Cheers,
Mike.

[AlanG]

Welcome John. Nice to have a wingy thing builder join for once lol

[Mini Me]

Welcome to the forum John. Ah the Vulcan. Takes me back to the old "James Bond" days. Will you have Nukes aboard? Rick H.

[John G Bishop]

Hi Dave
I’m going old school with enamels and brushes. Something nostalgic about doing it that way that will remind me of my younger years.
The Vulcan scramble sounds awesome!

Hi Dave
I’m going old school with enamels and brushes. Something nostalgic about doing it that way that will remind me of my younger years.
The Vulcan scramble sounds awesome!

Dave...have you built the 1/72 Vulcan?

[Dave Ward]

John,
I've never made the Airfix Vulcan - but I made the Rareplanes vac-form Vulcan - must be 30 + years ago - last century, in fact! At that time there wasn't an injection moulded model available, so a vac-form was the only game in town - they were difficult to make & needed a lot of scratchbuilding, but produced an impressive model after a lot of work!.....................
Dave

[John G Bishop]

Welcome to the forum John. Ah the Vulcan. Takes me back to the old "James Bond" days. Will you have Nukes aboard? Rick H.

Hi Rick. I have glued the nuke so I’d like to include it, but I don’t fancy the all white Vulcan so I’m going camo with Nuke. Not strictly as it should be but everyone keeps telling me to do whatever makes me happy. :-)

[John G Bishop]

Finally.....the wings and fuselage are on the beast. Little bit of filler of the wing joints but really happy so far.

[JR]

Welcome John.
As said the best forum there is.
We live in Stamford and had the Vulcans stationed at Wittering not far away. We would see them flying, a fantastic thing to see and hear. They used to carry out engine testing in the evenings up to 2300. You could hear the sound 5 miles away .During the 1950s and 1960s all three V-Force bombers operated from RAF Wittering: the Valiant, Victor and the Vulcan.