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This page last updated on 28th July 2008
Most of these closeup pictures are of the Midland Air Museum's Sea Vixen FAW.2 XN685 and FAW.2 XJ494 at Bruntingthorpe. I'd like to express my appreciation to Barry James and Steven Perriss for allowing such good access to their respective aircraft.
There are three readily available model kits in 1/72 scale of the Sea Vixen - one from Frog (reissued by Novo, Eastern Express, Modelcraft and Revell) which is a little fat in the fuselage and lacking in finesse; a limited run kit from High Planes in Australia which is the most accurate and has pretty good recessed surface detailing but is lacking in cockpit, engine and undercarriage detail (also expensive to get hold of in the UK), and a new kit from Xtrakit (MPM). The latter has the nicest recessed surface detailing (where it is accurate and not made up!) but frankly it's a total pig to put together and has numerous inaccuracies along with several moulding flaws - for what you get, it's seriously overpriced. All kits can be built as the FAW.2 version though an FAW.1 can also be built from the High Planes and Xtrakit boxes (in fact making an FAW.2 from the Xtrakit is much harder due to very badly done boom extensions). In 1/48 scale the only game in town is the excellent Dynavector vacform kit (also an FAW.2) though MPM apparently have one on the way. Let's hope it's better than their 1/72 effort!
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4 people have commented on this page. This is comment section 1 of 1.
Ed Tharp from Arizona, USA | Posted at 5:24pm on Sunday, August 24th, 2008 |
Your pics a great help to model builder.I hope that I live long enough to see a 1/48 scale quality kit of the Sea Vixen come to be. I'll have to be satisfies with the 1/72 Frog kit in the meantime. A magnificent machine,one of my faves. Thanx again ! | |
Richard Chatterton from Hampshire | Posted at 7:11pm on Monday, July 7th, 2008 |
Saw her at Yeovilton yesterday - a real treat! | |
John Rieley from Sussex | Posted at 9:54am on Monday, July 7th, 2008 |
Just what I needed as I am trying to build a Sea Vixen model | |
Steven Perriss from Kings Lynn | Posted at 3:02pm on Sunday, July 6th, 2008 |
Fantastic shots , your more than welcome to come back anytime :) | |
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