Airfix 1/72 HP Victor review and comparison to older kits.
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- čas přidán 17. 08. 2021
- I finally got this video done for the second time and got it out there. Hope you like it? If you would like to contribute to the channel.. please look here.. / nigelsmodellingbench
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Hi Nigel just wanted to give you a shout out over the HP Victor engine intake mod kit that you reccomend, I have ordered one, and it is on way its way, so thank you again, currently watching your Revell Lancaster build for when I get my Airfix kit to complete.. Still loving your content and I hope your dog is doing OK, as I understand she has been poorly. I run a Dog home boarding business so they are very close to my heart. Tx Mark
Thanks Nigel - I hope you start this build soon the Victor has always held a special place in my heart
You and me both!
Very interesting and a great model of an iconic "Buck Roger's/ Flash Gordon" style aircraft. I have the matchbox one. Box, instructions and decals but the parts are in my attic kit bash box, with a half-melted tail unit! Incidentally my two huge airfix Harriers (1/24?) have that grey chewy plastic feel to them.weirdly soft and textured!
like a washing -up bowl !
The best of British. I made a 1/400 HMS Montgomery by Airfix in that dark grey plastic. A thoroughly pleasant exercise.
It's lovely to see you got this awesome model, I love models myself and I recently got a few Airfix myself one of those was the older Avro Shakelton tail dragger, very nice kit
I built this kit - I'm probably echoing the thoughts of others, but here are few of my "notes" and "if I were doing it again" observations for anyone interested...
Most of the fit was good, but the fit of the "saddle" wing panel over the fuselage needed some fettling to get a step out.
Jet pipes are almost invisible, I wouldn't spend much effort making them seamless.
Ahead of painting, I should have paid attention to getting the cockpit glazing aligned - either pack it or blend down the fuselage to get it aligned. Mine has some little steps. Test fit, test fit, test fit.
The missile fairing in the bomb bay needed some shims to get it nicely aligned.
Front fuselage needed to be "stretched" a bit to fit round the cockpit. I preferred to sand the cockpit walls and floor to get a good fit rather than clamp and glue to avoid creating a stressed joint.
I would look to find a way to fit nose gear and airbrake after painting to avoid knocking them off.
The fuselage joint rear of the bomb bay underside has "popped" several times on mine and isn't regluing. Wish I'd added some extra tabs to make the glue area of that joint bigger and stronger.
Fairing around the engine nozzles needs a bit of fettling to slip over the nozzles (and had pretty big sinks.)
I bought the Eduard "Big Ed" set for it. It's nice, but you can see almost none of the cockpit once it's closed up. Gear bay PE may be worthwhile for anyone that picks up their models (not that the kit version is bad.) But I wouldn't bother with the cockpit PE unless you want to practise PE.
I bought the Master Models fuel probe and pitot tube set - they're nice and only a few GBP.
Despite the size of the kit, three years since I finished it, there's no sign of any sag in wings. The internal box structure must be doing it's job.
Don't be put off though dear reader, with a bit of effort the results are very nice, but (at least on my print) this wasn't a case of "chuck the glue in the box, shake it up and a model falls out." Also, it's quite big!
Thank you very much Dave. Much valued input there.
You can fit the front wheel before painting. Don't glue the strut until afterwards.
Yes do the intakes off the model, I would have if I did it again. Most other aspects you can follow the directions without any issues. The clear wing tips are a bit of an issue and the wing end pitot tubes.
Thanks for the tips!
I sure hope this will come back into production Nige, it's on my list of MUST HAVE'S😉😁
Great kit and a great review Nigel, definitely on my want list.
Good choice!
I look forward to you building this.
I have built two, one all white Blue Steel and one hemp K2. Lovely kit, but with some issues
with the fitting of the top wings to the fuselage.
I still have the camo Blue Steel to do.
Thanks for the tips!
You can get around the top wing fit - needs some careful sanding and checking of the underside of top wing section prior to fitting, dry fit it and have a good look at pinch points and sand down, you’ll find it fits far far better if you do this.
This looks lovely. Thanks for showing us.
Thanks for watching!
Great review Nigel!
Hi Nigel great review just had a look at my 2 and when you build it the cockpit should be black for bombers and grey for tankers as my father told me years ago he also mentioned the most comfortable place to sleep in a victor was either the h2s radome or underneath the electronics table he built victors at radlett cannot wait ro see this built
Great video Nigel, I can remember these bad boys flying over my house when their days were sadly numbered. An iconic aircraft that looked like it always meant business!
Appeared at an air show once and was popular with USA fly boys who loved it! It will make a great companion to your excellent Vulcan. Enjoy, regards JH
the Russian pilots thought they were awesome ! can you imagine a silver one with red stars on ? There's a what if ?
i would love to get my self on of these. you said you are going to build it. when you do get to it, please make it into a series like the vulcan. i really enjoy the build series that you have done
Wow airfix are loving the blue steel at the moment😜 I reckon it’ll be slung under the new mossie at this rate. Keep up the good work Nigel.
This is a 2016 release mate, so not really "at the moment" but it is exactly the same sprue as you get in the Vulcan.
Hi Nigel. This video just came up on my feed. Airfix are to re-release this kit this year, Autumn 2022. Not sure if anything changes in the 2022 release. It doesn't look like it on a quick glance. I might have to get one.
It is a lovely kit Andy. I wonder how much it will cost? Their Buccaneer is over £70!!!
@@NigelsModellingBench Yes mate. Expensive. I pre-ordered the Vulcan from Jadlam. Think I paid about £55. Now it is over £70 on the Airfix web site. £63 at Jadlam. Jadlam have the Victor on pre-order for £73. Maybe I will pass lol.
You bagged a veritable bargain, there Nigel. 👌👌 Nice catch!!
Great review (as they always are ! 👌👌) ... and loving the new, ‘easy on the eye’ blue towel backdrop (would you call that teal blue ?) Makes the parts, decals etc very easy to distinguish from the background, so please keep 🙏🙏 .... at least until you get a kit with teal blue sprues !! 🤪🤪
Such a shame, (now that Airfix are putting so much more into their ‘designed by modellers, for modellers designs’ ) that they are cutting corners on the styrene type and production methods. ‘Spoiling the ship for a ha’penneth of tar’ springs to mind🙄🙄
Sutcliff/Contrail also made a kit of the Victor.
hey Nigel great review I saw in your book there is a desert camouflage Falcon is that true 32:25
Yeah, they painted the underside of a Vulcan in the USA with a water washable paint in a tan/brown scheme.
Hi Nigel great video, although I have had to buy the Revell kit so I can do the tanker version as I cannot find the Airfix K.2 kit anywhere to buy, If you hear of any coming up for sale please holler..Also have managed to buy a copy of the V Bomber ref book you reccomend (on Amazon for £ 140 quid currently) so I found in a second hand online book shop and got it for £ 40 and have bought, I am looking forward to reading especially about XH-558. Also have you done a video re overcoming the surface issues and scribing, as you mention the Rervell klit will need some work, so could do with learning how to do it ! Between Jen and yourself you are now my go to "how to" video providers.
Finally on your favourite subject: Lancasters.. which kit (1/72 initially) would you reccomend that I buy to build for my WW2 bomber airfield diorama that I want to create ? I have sourced the vehicles, people and a Pathfinder Mosquito kit so far, and seem to remember you could get building kits from Airfix, but this was the 60's/70's so no idea how I would track them down now. Tx again for wonderful content and stay safe. Mark.
I have done a video on scribing on the beginner series. Also see my Vulcan build.
Tx Nigel, I plan to follow your Vulcan build when I start my Black Buck kit build, so thanks for that. Am also watching your beginners series so thank again. Mark @@NigelsModellingBench
Great video Nigel, looks like a lovely plane. Did you say you were not going to build it? That's too bad, I think I would have liked to see it. Comparing it to your Vulcan, with all the trouble you've had with the Vulcan, a comparison would have been interesting.
I will be building it, soon I expect
Great review of a classic bomber of the V Force. I wonder how the blue colour of the roundels compares with the Vulcans?
Well, just had a look and my aftermarket are darkest, the victor is slightly lighter then the Vulcan is lighter again, or more "purple"
@@NigelsModellingBench is it normal for cartagraph to be so far out, surely it’s the same code for the colour. Which aught to be; HEX #5D8AA8 / RGB (93, 138, 168)
@@eddiegremlin Maybe my aftermarket decals are off? But, I'm sure the Vulcan decals look a little purple? Maybe Cartograph only print what they're told to print? Victor and Vulcan are both Cartograph?
Are you going to do a part by part series like you did with the Vulcan??
When I build it yes John, but next up will be the 1/48 Lanc, finishing the Vulcan, 1/72 Lanc and B-52.
@@NigelsModellingBench great stuff.. Loved binge watching the Vulcan.. Very informative and packed full of fantastic tips and advice
@@jackrussell19a Thank you
As I near the completion of my Vulcan B.2, i can't help but reflect on the fact that the fitting issues were so bad (port wing in particular), that it sucked all the joy of the build out of me and that I don't want to build an Airfix kit again anytime soon.
On one of your other videos, a poster argued that we should keep throwing money at Airfix because we should be glad they're still afloat, and that it was not fair to compare them with other brands. The bottom line is that for the £70 I paid Airfix for the brand new Vulcan kit, I could have had an F-4 from ZM or a huge Su-27 from GWH - and in both cases, the build experience would have been filled with substantially more enjoyment.
Anyway, I'll watch you build this with interest... but I won't be buying one!
Mine went together pretty well. So did the Victors.
5:48 Anyone else spot the angry space marine?
Do you know of any 1/48 scale larger planes - i.e. vulcans and victors? Love the planes but a while back made the decision to go 1/48 only because I'm a fan of them all being to scale with each other. Thanks
1/48 Vulcan insert into Google
Nothing in 1/48 commercially available. There was talk if a vacform kit a couple of years ago but unless you are really desperate and ready for plenty of scratch building it would not be an 'out of the box' build. Be nice to see the trio of V bombers in 1/48 but they would be huge. 👍
instantly could hear difference in that plastic. Shame on Airfix not to take pride in all their kits. I wonder how much that plastic and/or training at overseas would put on a kit?
Just a comment for the algorithm
So is the Revell matchbox accurate in shape
Terrible intakes.
I'm not sure how good either of them are David? Nothing pops out to my eye?
How annoying when you lose information - I can only sympathise . sounds like Airfix is facing the same production problems as HORNBY with their railways in the far east - if modellers don't like 'em thay're not going to buy 'em ..... so there . lovely kit but a bit out of my price range I'm afraid .💛💙
£100 for a paper back? Rip off Britain strikes again lol
Same sort of price from the USA.
Will be great if it is reprinted. (with Nigel’s Vulcan the right way round)
@@TheWGLOVER reference books tend to jump like that. Check via ISBN#'s and sometimes you can find decent prices.. for example
Biblio: 2 in Australia at $25 + $28 shipping
1 in Ohio at $150 + $5 shipping.
Ebay (US) 1 for $80 free shipping
You get the idea
Unfortunately, books that are unlikely to sell in volume attract a high unit cost. Particularly if they have a lot of glossy full colour images in them. It's simply down to the economics: If a publisher is producing "Buttons Through The Ages" it's not likely to sell many copies, whereas the latest JK Rowling paperback is going to sell millions. Specialist titles with low distribution always cost more (I still shudder to think of the cost of the text books I had to buy for college, even decades later.)
@@davecardboard9567 There's an oddly named place in Georgia (US) called "The Rock". Enormous printers there, had a few pick-up there back when I was an OTR driver. Coupon and ads for newspapers, magazines, books over on its slow side, and text books next to that. Had their own railyard and 3 zip codes. Odd things you learn from trucking. Backed up to the door and was asked to turn on the refrigerator (reefer as we called the type trailer) normally this makes the metal floor too slick for forklifts. Unusually told to stand by door inside and had nice conversation with supervisor there. Once he was satisfied with it's ability to chill, he explained the product was getting was airline magazines fresh off the print machine (at least 8 times bigger than my 82ft long road truck). I was getting 12 pallets for full 35k pound load, how did I want them placed and please go turn off the reefer. 10 minutes it took to get back to door, building sucked up all the moisture from the trailer, I was very surprised. Supervisor explained that the magazines may have a slight need to dry out during first 8 hours after I'm loaded and to please turn it off then. Will do, but why? Turned out I was delivering direct to tarmacs and my freight was going either straight on planes, half of each stop did, by hand no forklifts allowed, rest into the office between the planes. Supervisor explained that was singularly most profitable thing that they made. Huh? How? They get between 1 and 5% of commission from bored people buying stuff from those magazines, LoL. It took ten years of text book and hardcover sales to match 1 weeks worth of these, or a months worth of coupons and sales ads.
They never are in a hurry for any books printing, except the one batch of Harry Potter release day to Amazon I took from there. LoL. Printers are a crazy business for sure. Have a spiffy day gang.